Building upon well established Scrum, XP, and lean software development methods, agile scaling frameworks such as Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scott Ambler's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) address large, complex software delivery initiatives through their full delivery lifecycle from project initiation to production. These frameworks have received significant interest in both federal government and private industries, recognizing the need for continued team-based iterative and incremental adaptive approaches to software development, balanced with scaling processes and factors at the Program and Portfolio levels and organizational governance models and guidance for large enterprise engagements. This session will provide a brief overview of these two agile scaling models, address the benefits of what both are trying to accomplish, and compare and contrast specific similarities and differences.
Webinar On Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) | iZenBridgeSaket Bansal
This presentation we used in our webinar on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) .
We first look at what scaling is about and how Safe helps in scaling agile projects.
Agile IT Operatinos - Getting to Daily ReleasesLeadingAgile
Getting to Daily Releases with Agile IT Operations. Devin Hedge, Enterprise Transformation Consultant talks to a group at Triagile about the Six Key Areas to focus on when attempting to transform IT Operations with Lean and Agile principles. The talk covers Service Engineering, IT Operations, and the Tier 1 Support/NOC organizations. Kanban, Service Management (ITSM), and what it means to have a DevOps orientation.
Exploring Agile Transformation and Scaling PatternsMike Cottmeyer
The goal of any enterprise agile adoption strategy is NOT to adopt agile. Companies adopt agile to achieve better business outcomes. Large organizations have no time for dogma and one-size-fits-all thinking when it comes to introducing agile practices. These companies need pragmatic guidance for safely and incrementally introducing structure, principles, and ultimately practices that will result in greater long term, sustainable business results. This talk will introduce a framework for safely, pragmatically, and incrementally introducing agile to help you achieve your business goals.
Align, Inform, Inspire: Measuring Business Agility and SAFe® with Flow MetricsTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream to demonstrate how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
Webinar On Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) | iZenBridgeSaket Bansal
This presentation we used in our webinar on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) .
We first look at what scaling is about and how Safe helps in scaling agile projects.
Agile IT Operatinos - Getting to Daily ReleasesLeadingAgile
Getting to Daily Releases with Agile IT Operations. Devin Hedge, Enterprise Transformation Consultant talks to a group at Triagile about the Six Key Areas to focus on when attempting to transform IT Operations with Lean and Agile principles. The talk covers Service Engineering, IT Operations, and the Tier 1 Support/NOC organizations. Kanban, Service Management (ITSM), and what it means to have a DevOps orientation.
Exploring Agile Transformation and Scaling PatternsMike Cottmeyer
The goal of any enterprise agile adoption strategy is NOT to adopt agile. Companies adopt agile to achieve better business outcomes. Large organizations have no time for dogma and one-size-fits-all thinking when it comes to introducing agile practices. These companies need pragmatic guidance for safely and incrementally introducing structure, principles, and ultimately practices that will result in greater long term, sustainable business results. This talk will introduce a framework for safely, pragmatically, and incrementally introducing agile to help you achieve your business goals.
Align, Inform, Inspire: Measuring Business Agility and SAFe® with Flow MetricsTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream to demonstrate how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
Agile Transformation at scale is challenging that requires deep understanding and expertise of agility, discipline and hunger to change. In order to guide you for success in your transformation efforts, we created the Agile Transformation Governance Model. The governance model focuses on 5 key areas together with its 19 sub areas and creates high level of visibility for your transformation efforts.
Introduction to SAFe, the Scaled Agile Frameworksrondal
Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes:
- plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes
- la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale
- vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint"
- sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise
Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe.
Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.
Portfolio Management in an Agile World - Rick AustinLeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. Rick Austin illustrates how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
Scaling Agile With SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)Andreano Lanusse
Apresentação feita no Agile in Rio, mostrando como um conjunto de 5 à 10 equipes ágeis podem entregar objetivos em comum usando Scaled Agile Framework® ou SAFe, e como iniciar o lançamento de um Agile Release Train.
Lean Agile Center of Excellence LACE – Drink our own ChampagneCA Technologies
How to establish a Lean Agile Center of Excellence in your organization, and lead your transformation initiative in an Agile way. Drinking our own champagne as change agents.
Create and Evolve your Lean Agile Center of Excellence!
Agile Transformation consists of a group of professional change agents specializing in process improvement and organizational transformation. We are experts in Agile, Lean and organizational transformation methods applied to Technology and Business.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in the TrenchesYuval Yeret
eBook by AgileSparks - curated blog posts, guidance articles, implementation approaches - all based on AgileSparks and specifically Yuval Yeret's experience implementing SAFe in the trenches.
Release Train Engineer - the Master Scrum Master Mia Horrigan
This is my presentation form the LAST (Lean, Agile, System, Thinking) Conferences in Melbourne where i explored my experiences of being a Release Train Engineer on a digital transformation project across a large government enterprise and discussed the challenges and lessons learnt.
What's new in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6.0 - Agile Indy May 10th MeetupYuval Yeret
SAFe 6.0, a significant version of the Scaled Agile Framework, was released earlier this Spring. Join us for a deep dive into the newly released SAFe 6.0, where we'll explore the latest updates and improvements to the framework.
In this session, we'll cover the following topics:
Strengthening the Foundation for Business Agility -
Foundational changes in SAFe
Empowering Teams and Clarifying Responsibilities
Accelerating Value Flow
Enhancing Business Agility with SAFe across the business
Delivering Better Outcomes with Measure and Grow and OKRs
This session will provide valuable insights into the latest release and how it can help you and your organization improve business agility and deliver value to customers faster. Join us for an informative and engaging session with our expert speaker, SAFe Fellow/SPCT, and Scrum.org PST Yuval Yeret, who has extensive experience in implementing SAFe at scale. Yuval loves to answer questions, so review the “What’s new in SAFe 6.0” article and come up with concrete questions you want him to answer.
Have you tried assessing the maturity of your Agile teams? Have you developed your own unique approach or adopted an approach found online? Have you found the assessments valuable and continued them?
This material introduces a very simple, straightforward approach for Agile and Scrum maturity assessments without the complexity and pitfalls of numerous more sophisticated approaches.
The author has used five different approaches to assess Agile maturity over the past decade, three developed by Agile coaching staff and two developed by himself, before adopting this simpler retrospective Agile maturity assessment.
Shared at Agile New England as an Agile 101 topic in June 2023.
Ever wondered how Agile can be implemented in larger organisation/project. SAFe is the answer. In this session we will understand the core principles and values that is require to implement SAFe in larger organisation.
Building Your SAFe Implementation StrategyAlex Yakyma
In this presentation, Alex Yakyma will talk about practical aspects of SAFe rollouts in large Value Streams and Portfolios. Alex will provide numerous examples and practical advice to leaders and change agents that are about to start or are in the middle of their SAFe rollout.
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
10 steps to a successsful enterprise agile transformation global scrum 2018Agile Velocity
Presented at Scrum Gathering Minneapolis, Senior Agile Coach and Trainer Mike Hall provides leaders and managers 10 steps to a successful enterprise Agile transformation.
Foundations of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe® ) 4.5netmind
El Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) es una base de conocimientos para adoptar métodos de trabajo ágiles en grandes organizaciones. SAFe presenta de forma gráfica un modelo de gestión para escalar la aplicación de las prácticas ágiles de un equipo a la gestión de programas, y de la gestión de programas al conjunto de la organización.
Este modelo para la adopción y transformación ágil de las organizaciones fué diseñado por Dean Leffingwell, a partir de sus libros “Agile Software Requeriments: Lean Requeriments for Teams Programs and the Enterprise” y “Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprise”, y se ha implementado con éxito en grandes organizaciones de todo el mundo. 60 de las 100 compañías más grandes de Estados Unidos están utilizando SAFe como guía de referencia para la adopción de Agile.
El modelo de gestión propuesto por SAFe cubre el conjunto de la organización, desde los equipos, hasta los niveles de mayor responsabilidad. El modelo estructura en tres niveles: Equipo, Programa y Portfolio, aunque en la última versión, SAFe 4.0, introduce un 4º nivel opcional para soluciones de extremadamente grandes y complejas. Para cada uno de estos niveles SAFe define los roles, estructuras, actividades, artefactos, prácticas y técnicas adecuadas.
Agile DC 2013 - Comparing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with Disciplined Agil...Greg Pfister
Building upon well established Scrum, XP, and lean software development methods, agile scaling frameworks such as Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scott Ambler's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) address large, complex software delivery initiatives through their full delivery lifecycle from project initiation to production. These frameworks have received significant interest in both federal government and private industries, recognizing the need for continued team-based iterative and incremental adaptive approaches to software development, balanced with scaling processes and factors at the Program and Portfolio levels and organizational governance models and guidance for large enterprise engagements. This session will provide a brief overview of these two agile scaling models, address the benefits of what both are trying to accomplish, and compare and contrast specific similarities and differences.
Agile Transformation at scale is challenging that requires deep understanding and expertise of agility, discipline and hunger to change. In order to guide you for success in your transformation efforts, we created the Agile Transformation Governance Model. The governance model focuses on 5 key areas together with its 19 sub areas and creates high level of visibility for your transformation efforts.
Introduction to SAFe, the Scaled Agile Frameworksrondal
Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes:
- plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes
- la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale
- vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint"
- sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise
Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe.
Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.
Portfolio Management in an Agile World - Rick AustinLeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. Rick Austin illustrates how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
Scaling Agile With SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)Andreano Lanusse
Apresentação feita no Agile in Rio, mostrando como um conjunto de 5 à 10 equipes ágeis podem entregar objetivos em comum usando Scaled Agile Framework® ou SAFe, e como iniciar o lançamento de um Agile Release Train.
Lean Agile Center of Excellence LACE – Drink our own ChampagneCA Technologies
How to establish a Lean Agile Center of Excellence in your organization, and lead your transformation initiative in an Agile way. Drinking our own champagne as change agents.
Create and Evolve your Lean Agile Center of Excellence!
Agile Transformation consists of a group of professional change agents specializing in process improvement and organizational transformation. We are experts in Agile, Lean and organizational transformation methods applied to Technology and Business.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in the TrenchesYuval Yeret
eBook by AgileSparks - curated blog posts, guidance articles, implementation approaches - all based on AgileSparks and specifically Yuval Yeret's experience implementing SAFe in the trenches.
Release Train Engineer - the Master Scrum Master Mia Horrigan
This is my presentation form the LAST (Lean, Agile, System, Thinking) Conferences in Melbourne where i explored my experiences of being a Release Train Engineer on a digital transformation project across a large government enterprise and discussed the challenges and lessons learnt.
What's new in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 6.0 - Agile Indy May 10th MeetupYuval Yeret
SAFe 6.0, a significant version of the Scaled Agile Framework, was released earlier this Spring. Join us for a deep dive into the newly released SAFe 6.0, where we'll explore the latest updates and improvements to the framework.
In this session, we'll cover the following topics:
Strengthening the Foundation for Business Agility -
Foundational changes in SAFe
Empowering Teams and Clarifying Responsibilities
Accelerating Value Flow
Enhancing Business Agility with SAFe across the business
Delivering Better Outcomes with Measure and Grow and OKRs
This session will provide valuable insights into the latest release and how it can help you and your organization improve business agility and deliver value to customers faster. Join us for an informative and engaging session with our expert speaker, SAFe Fellow/SPCT, and Scrum.org PST Yuval Yeret, who has extensive experience in implementing SAFe at scale. Yuval loves to answer questions, so review the “What’s new in SAFe 6.0” article and come up with concrete questions you want him to answer.
Have you tried assessing the maturity of your Agile teams? Have you developed your own unique approach or adopted an approach found online? Have you found the assessments valuable and continued them?
This material introduces a very simple, straightforward approach for Agile and Scrum maturity assessments without the complexity and pitfalls of numerous more sophisticated approaches.
The author has used five different approaches to assess Agile maturity over the past decade, three developed by Agile coaching staff and two developed by himself, before adopting this simpler retrospective Agile maturity assessment.
Shared at Agile New England as an Agile 101 topic in June 2023.
Ever wondered how Agile can be implemented in larger organisation/project. SAFe is the answer. In this session we will understand the core principles and values that is require to implement SAFe in larger organisation.
Building Your SAFe Implementation StrategyAlex Yakyma
In this presentation, Alex Yakyma will talk about practical aspects of SAFe rollouts in large Value Streams and Portfolios. Alex will provide numerous examples and practical advice to leaders and change agents that are about to start or are in the middle of their SAFe rollout.
Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”
10 steps to a successsful enterprise agile transformation global scrum 2018Agile Velocity
Presented at Scrum Gathering Minneapolis, Senior Agile Coach and Trainer Mike Hall provides leaders and managers 10 steps to a successful enterprise Agile transformation.
Foundations of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe® ) 4.5netmind
El Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) es una base de conocimientos para adoptar métodos de trabajo ágiles en grandes organizaciones. SAFe presenta de forma gráfica un modelo de gestión para escalar la aplicación de las prácticas ágiles de un equipo a la gestión de programas, y de la gestión de programas al conjunto de la organización.
Este modelo para la adopción y transformación ágil de las organizaciones fué diseñado por Dean Leffingwell, a partir de sus libros “Agile Software Requeriments: Lean Requeriments for Teams Programs and the Enterprise” y “Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprise”, y se ha implementado con éxito en grandes organizaciones de todo el mundo. 60 de las 100 compañías más grandes de Estados Unidos están utilizando SAFe como guía de referencia para la adopción de Agile.
El modelo de gestión propuesto por SAFe cubre el conjunto de la organización, desde los equipos, hasta los niveles de mayor responsabilidad. El modelo estructura en tres niveles: Equipo, Programa y Portfolio, aunque en la última versión, SAFe 4.0, introduce un 4º nivel opcional para soluciones de extremadamente grandes y complejas. Para cada uno de estos niveles SAFe define los roles, estructuras, actividades, artefactos, prácticas y técnicas adecuadas.
Agile DC 2013 - Comparing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with Disciplined Agil...Greg Pfister
Building upon well established Scrum, XP, and lean software development methods, agile scaling frameworks such as Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scott Ambler's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) address large, complex software delivery initiatives through their full delivery lifecycle from project initiation to production. These frameworks have received significant interest in both federal government and private industries, recognizing the need for continued team-based iterative and incremental adaptive approaches to software development, balanced with scaling processes and factors at the Program and Portfolio levels and organizational governance models and guidance for large enterprise engagements. This session will provide a brief overview of these two agile scaling models, address the benefits of what both are trying to accomplish, and compare and contrast specific similarities and differences.
Disciplined Agile Delivery: Foundation for Scaling AgileSoftware Guru
Organizations are applying agile strategies with large teams, geographically distributed teams, in outsourcing situations, in complex domains, in technically complex situations, and in regulatory situations. Sometimes they’re successful and sometimes they’re not. The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) decision process framework is a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. It has a risk-value delivery lifecycle, is goal-driven, is enterprise aware, and is scalable. The DAD framework is a hybrid which adopts proven strategies from Scrum, XP, Agile Modeling, Outside-In Development, Lean/Kanban, DevOps, and others in a disciplined manner. In this presentation you’ll discover how DAD provides a solid foundation from which to scale agile, learn how agile teams work at scale, and identify several common scaling anti-patterns which should be avoided.
During this presentation you will learn:
• What the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework is.
• What it means to scale your agile strategy.
• “New” practices for scaling agile.
• Strategies for successfully scaling agile.
• Industry statistics around the successes and failures associated with scaling agile.
Salesforce Application Lifecycle Management presented to EA Forum by Sam Garf...Sam Garforth
Sam Garforth presented this at the Salesforce Enterprise Architect Forum on January 12th 2017. It covers governance and best practices for developing, deploying and supporting applications running on the Salesforce platform, whether these be apps or configurations of Sales or Service Cloud or Communities.
Introduction to Enterprise Agile FrameworksMehul Kapadia
* Need for Enterprise Agility
Agile practices have been adopted by organizations of all sizes.
For medium to large enterprises, team level agile practices have been stretched with custom fit processes and practices as needed to fulfill the gaps in end to end delivery life cycle.
* Agile@Scale
Enterprise Agile Frameworks have emerged to address the challenge of replicating agile success at organization level.
We will review following frameworks:
• SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework
• DAD – Disciplined Agile Delivery
• LeSS – Large Scale Scrum
* Attendees will leave this presentation with a clear understanding of current trends in organizational agility and will be able to take back the lessons learnt from speaker’s experience of SAFe implementation.
Make simplified process decisions with the aid of our content ready Agile Delivery PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Discuss the technical requirements and schedule of your project using this professionally designed scaled agile framework PPT slideshow. The visually appealing PowerPoint complete deck contains forty-four topic-specific templates that help to represent agile delivery phases and goals. Take advantage of the sprint methodology PPT slides to showcase a strategic framework based on different criteria. Utilize the ready-to-use agile project management PowerPoint templates to represent the stages of the software delivery process such as initiation planning execution and release. Talk about the risk mitigations strategy that results in a decrease in risk and increase in value You can also use the scrum methodology PPT graphics to discuss the factors affecting the agile delivery such as market, customers, architecture impact, dependencies and so on. Thus, download our eye-catching and informative agile manifesto PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate the roles in disciplined agile delivery. Our Agile Delivery Powerpoint Presentation Slides ensure all elements combine beautifully. You will discover the best formula. https://bit.ly/3rUUrFL
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In this talk we will discuss various topics related to how Lean Agile methodologies can scale to the Enterprise level, we will compare various scaling models, including, standard Scrum or hybrid Scrum methodologies (such as Scrum plus eXtreme Programming or Scrum + Kanban) have fully demonstrated their value to the team level.
But … What happens when we try to use these models in real more complex environments and contexts? Or, when we try to scale Lean Agile in real organizations that characterize an important amount of the landscape of IT in Italy? Moving from the level of the team to the level of the organization (program and portfolio) we will encounter a number of complex issues to some extent new. Hence the importance of knowing the values and principles that constitute the foundations of the concepts of Lean Agile Scaling. There are several models, born in recent years, who are confronted with the reality of the Enterprise. We will discuss this issue at an holistic level and we will compare some of these scaling models, such as: - the standard Scrum ( Ken Schwaber , Mike Cohn , ... ) - Larmann & Vodde - SAFe - DAD - Management 3.0 - CDE – plus other models and approaches taken from my consulting and managerial coaching Enterprise experiences.
This talk explains a proven approach to assessment SRE practices for an organization. The approach uses a 9 pillar model and 7 step transformation blueprint to determine current state of SRE practices and to set a roadmap to improve SRE practices towards industry best practices.
In this presentation you will learn how Farm Credit Services of America/Frontier Farm Credit transformed their quality practices and tooling to bring visibility and consistency to Enterprise Quality, including: testing as a team approach, creating an automated test architecture, measuring progress with dashboards and standardizing on a set of testing tools.
Applying DevOps from the Mobile to the MainframeCA Technologies
As part of key IT initiatives to improve customer experience, reduce IT costs, ensure compliance and increase reliability, Akbank took on an audacious project to apply DevOps principles and an Agile approach as standard across all of the bank's applications, including customer-facing, branch infrastructure, multi-channel architecture and mainframe areas. Building a tool chain that covers project initiation through to deployment in production in such a complex environment is a challenging task. Akbank chose to link its existing toolset using CA Release Automation as a Continuous Delivery backbone, with CA Harvest and CA Endevor to manage source code, build and package tasks. This session will explore the vision to improve the development cycle, as well as the requirements for the project, and ultimately the benefits being realized.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Blackboard Learn Deployment: A Detailed Update of Managed Hosting and SaaS De...Blackboard APAC
Blackboard has deployed cloud solutions for well over a decade and is very excited to launch our new SaaS offering at the Teaching and Learning conference. The session will explore Blackboard’s continued commitment to managed hosting, partnership with IBM/AWS and next generation SaaS offerings that offer institutions unique control over their innovation journey.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
3. Key Characteristics of Agile Delivery
Agile Principles and Values
Agile Manifesto Values &
Principles (DAD and SAFe)
Transparency, Program
Execution, Code Quality,
Alignment (SAFe)
Source: National Audit Office review of literature
Agilex
www.agilex.com
4. What do we mean by scaling?
Agilex
www.agilex.com
6. ®
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) “Big Picture”
Well defined and proven
knowledge base for implementing
agile practices at enterprise scale
Scales successfully to large
numbers of practitioners and
teams
Building off of Scrum, XP, and Lean
agile development approaches
Synchronizes alignment,
collaboration and delivery
“Big Picture” highlights the individual
roles, teams, activities and artifacts
necessary to scale agile from the team
to program to the enterprise level
Elaborated in books: Agile
Software Requirements (2011) and
Scaling Software Agility (2007)
Source: Scaledagileframework.com
Agilex
www.agilex.com
8. Scale to the Portfolio Level
Roles/Teams
• Enterprise
Architect
• Epic Owner
• Program Portfolio
Management
Agilex
Events
• Strategic
Investment
Planning
• Kanban Portfolio
(Epic) Planning
Artifacts
• Investment
Themes
• Business and
Architecture
Epics
• Portfolio Backlog
• Portfolio Vision
• Metrics
www.agilex.com
9. Scale to the Program Level
Roles/Teams
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Agilex
Product Management
Release Management
System Team
DevOps
Business Owners
System Architect
Release Train Engineer
UX Architect
Events
• PSI/Release Planning
• System Demo
• Inspect & Adapt
Workshop
Artifacts
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Product Roadmap
Vision
Program Backlog
Team Backlog
NFRs
Architecture Runway
Business and
Architecture Features
• PSI Objectives
• Metrics
www.agilex.com
10. Agile Team Level
Roles/Teams
• Agile Teams
• Product Owner
• Scrum/Agile
Master
Agilex
Events
Artifacts
• Sprint Planning
• Backlog Grooming
• Daily Stand-up
• Sprint Demo
• Sprint
Retrospective
• HIP Sprints
• Team Backlog (incl.
NFRs)
• Team PSI Objective
• Sprint Goals
• Working Software
• Spikes
• Metrics
www.agilex.com
11. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Delivery Process
Hybrid, end-to-end agile delivery
lifecycle with tailoring strategies
Building off of Scrum, XP, and
Lean agile development
approaches and methods
Scalable, people first, learning
oriented, agile, goal-driven,
enterprise aware, risk and value
driven
“DAD is a goal-driven process framework
that is people-first, learning-oriented
hybrid agile approach to IT solution
delivery. It has a risk-value lifecycle,
goal-driven and scalable”
Guidelines for governing
enterprise teams in an agile
manner
Elaborated in the book:
Disciplined Agile Delivery (2012
Source: Disciplined Agile Delivery, Ambler
Agilex
www.agilex.com
13. DAD Inception
Goals for
Inception Phase
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INCEPTION
Form initial Teams
Identify the vision for the
project and get approved
Align with enterprise
direction
Identify initial technical
strategy, requirements, and
release plan
Set up work environment
Secure funding
Identify risks
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Source: Disciplined Agile Delivery, Ambler
Agilex
www.agilex.com
14. DAD Construction
Goals for
Construction Phase
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CONSTRUCTION- ITERATIVE
Agilex
Produce a potentially
consumable solution
Address changing stakeholder
needs
Move closer to deployable
release
Maintain or improve upon
existing levels of quality
Prove architecture early
c
www.agilex.com
15. DAD Construction
Goals for
Construction Phase
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CONSTRUCTION- INTEGRATED
Agilex
Produce a potentially
consumable solution
Address changing stakeholder
needs
Move closer to deployable
release
Maintain or improve upon
existing levels of quality
Prove architecture early
c
www.agilex.com
16. DAD Transition
Goals for
Transition Phase
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Agilex
Ensure the stakeholders
are prepared to receive
the solution
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TRANSITION
Ensure the solution is
production ready
Deploy the solution into
production
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www.agilex.com
17. DAD Scaling Factors and Governance
DAD Scaling Factors
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Co-located
Single Division
None
Team Size
Geographic Distribution
Organizational Distribution
Compliance
DAD Governance Strategies
1000s
Global
Outsourcing
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Life Critical
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Straightforward
Domain Complexity
Very Complex
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Straightforward
Technical Complexity
Very Complex
Copyright 2013 Scott Ambler + Associates
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Agilex
Scaled IT projects are governed in
some way
DAD supports different
governance types
Scope and breadth of governance
adapts with work environment
Leverage existing corporate assets
to address issues that optimize
performance
Push decisions to local level
wherever possible
www.agilex.com
18. Sample Government Deliverables and SAFe Alignments
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Shared Resources
Operational Accept Plan (MS 1)
Accept Criteria Plan (MS 1)
Reqs Specification Doc (MS 1)
Sys Security Plan (MS 2)
Production Ops Manual (MS 2)
Security Guide (MS 2)
508 Certification (MS 2)
ATO (MS 2)
Privacy Impact Assess (MS 2)
User Guide (MS 2)
SLA (MS 2)
Architectural Standards
Data Exchange Standards
Hosting Strategies
Security Standards
Product and Release
Management
PMP (MS 1)
Transition Plan (MS 1)
Risk Register / Log (MS 1)
Outcome Stmt (MS 1)
Version Descrip Doc (MS 2)
Deployment Plan (MS 2)
Lessons Learned (MS 3)
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Quad Chart (MS 0)
IPT Charter (MS 0)
BRD (MS 0)
Project Charter (MS 0)
Acquisition Strategy (MS 0)
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Legislation
Budget
Policy
Directives
System Team
• Test Evaluation (MS 2)
• Master Test Plan (MS 2)
System Architect
• System Design Doc (MS 1)
SAFe roles with software development lifecycle
documentation responsibilities
Agilex
www.agilex.com
38. SAFe Key Takeaways
SAFe “Pros”
Proven, well documented, and flexible
framework; lean underpinnings
SAFe “Cons”
Prescriptive
People-centric view on agile delivery
with clear roles, artifacts, events
Holistic, 3-tier view of value stream
including Portfolio level
Heavy weight
Strong Code Quality (Agile Engineering
and DevOps) focus
Established scaling framework in
marketplace
Constant refinement of SAFe knowledge
base
Agilex
Certification-centric
www.agilex.com
39. DAD Key Takeaways
DAD “Pros”
Hybrid framework having foundation in
proven lean & agile approaches
DAD “Cons”
Unknown marketplace adoption
Phases with milestones emphasize reality
of large-scale agile delivery lifecycle
Flexibility with strong emphasis on agile
adoption tailoring
Limited broad-based training certification
and knowledge-base refinement
Strong technical architecture / engineering
focus
Governance clarity for program / product
management
Agilex
Lack of prescriptiveness requiring agile
consultants
www.agilex.com
Session Title: Comparing Scaled Agile Approaches: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)Session Description: Leveraging established and proven Scrum, XP, and lean software development methods, agile scaling frameworks such as Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scott Ambler's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) provide agile process frameworks for addressing large, complex software delivery initiatives through their full delivery lifecycle from project initiation to production. These frameworks have received significant interest in both federal government and private industries, recognizing the need for team-based iterative and incremental adaptive approaches to software development, balanced with scaling processes and factors at the Program and Portfolio levels and the for an organizational governance model and guidance for large enterprise engagements. This session will provide a brief overview of these two agile scaling models, address the benefits of what both are trying to accomplish, and compare and contrast specific similarities and differences. Track: Government or Improving your GameStyle: LectureDuration: 60 minutesBoth DAD and SAFe are Hybrid Process frameworks - detailing how to scale agile to the enterpriseScaled Agile Framework (SAFe) since; Scaledagileframework.comDisciplined Agile Delivery (DAD); Disciplinedagiledelivery.comCertifications and Industry AwarenessSAFe SA and SPC certificationsDAD certifications - Yellow, Green, Black Belt http://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/
Talking Points:We assume you have an understanding of agile, scrum, xp foundations (e.g. roles, teams, activities/events, artifacts)...this presentationis about agile scalingRoles: SM, PO, Self Organizing TeamEvents: Planning, Daily standup, Retro, DemoArtifacts: Backlog, DoD, Burndown metrics
Talking Points:Review / highlight some Key Characteristics of Agile Delivery to establish baseline assumptions of agile benefits to agile deliveryEx: Iterative and incremental, Just-enough elaboration of requirements (user stories), Transparency, Code quality, Automated testingBoth scaling frameworks have Lean and Agile Underpinnings/FoundationsScrumKanbanXP/Agile EngineeringAgile Modeling (DAD)Agile Data (DAD)Lean Software Development - Product Development Flow (SAFe)Agile Architecture (SAFe and DAD)Principles and Values - Agile CultureAgile Manifesto & Principles (DAD and SAFe)Transparency, Program Execution, Code Quality, Alignment (SAFe)
Talking Points:A typical agile teamHighlight automated test engineer
Talking Points: Reference agile scaling supporting a dozen or more agile delivery teams with supporting governance constructs (supporting and service roles, teams, etc.) that allows you to execute agile-at-scaleMention Ch33 experience within the Federal Government ecosystem300 person programDozens of Scrum Delivery and Service teamsPre-SAFe and DAD
Talking Points: A large-scale Agile enterprise approach – PARTICULARLY IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPACE
Talking Points:The “Big Picture” graphic highlights the individual roles, teams, activities/events and artifacts necessary to scale agile from the team to program to the enterprise level - emphasizes continuous flowSAFe is about scaling software development for our programs and taking an enterprise approachNotice this framework can support multiple Programs under one Portfolio and multipleTeams under one ProgramThere are many icons across the Big Picture that represent people within the process framework Tiered governance results in timely decisions, accountability, and traceability Active collaboration ensures traceability, alignment to vision and continuous discovery of requirements Emphasis on Code Quality through eXtreme Programming (XP) to foster better code Daily builds and production-ready releases within a 3-month period Efficiency gained by a fully automated, Agile testing process that is consistent and repeatable Real-time dashboards provide valuable insight to all stakeholdersOther Points: Frequent backlog grooming lowers cost and yields higher quality code Scalability, responsiveness, and standards drive design Powerful, virtualized CI “ecosystem” provides faster time to market and higher quality code CI ecosystem automates many Configuration Management (CM) tasks in a repeatable, consistent fashion Experienced Information Assurance (IA) leadership knowledgeable on VA-specific security requirementsSAFe provides a formal 3-tiered governance structure with supporting processes torealize benefits of agile at the Team, Program, and Portfolio levels ANDmitigate risks associated with scaling and coordination across project teams and stakeholders with other VistA enterprise efforts. Portfolio Vision, Program Release management, and Team Sprint planningWe will deliver timely decision-making by following agile value and change management practices, prioritizing issues and requirements through regular reviews and retrospection, and resolving impediments at the appropriate tier. Access to Frequent, Transparent, Real-time Information—We will provide relevant program dashboards with real-time backlog delivery metrics, enabling insight into actual progress against objectives. Our approach ensures that customers actively set direction during project initiation and regularly refine the vision at subsequent release and Sprint start points.
Talking Points:Talk to Flow of Work into Portfolio Level – Inputs and Outputs including investment themes drive business and architectural Program Epics and Vision Highlight key Portfolio Level Roles, Events, Artifacts, Inputs/Outputs:Specific Portfolio level roles, events, and artifacts exist to support agile-at-scale – Portfolio Management Team, Enterprise ArchitectEstablish a Portfolio Management Team composed of business and architecture organizational leadership to prioritize high-level Epic requirements that map to investment prioritiesVision guides investment priorities and enterprise architecture Kanban system provides a structured portfolio management approach to iteratively evolve Portfolio Backlog priorities.We will use a Kanban process to focus the high-level stakeholder ideas and requirements around the most impactful areas defined as a resulting set of Epics. Portfolio Backlog includes both functional and architectural epics and span multiple project Releases – enterprise architecture is a “first class citizen”.We will incorporate governance and direction from enterprise-level organizationsto ensure alignment to the organizationally-defined investment priorities. Objective, real-time portfoliometrics& dashboard support governance and continuous improvement============SAFe Guidelines: Lean principles emphasize sustainably fastest value delivery Portfolio vision guides investments and the enterprise architecture needed to support customer and business needsBusiness epic kanban system provides visibility and work-in-process limits to support continuous product development flowEnterprise architecture is a first class citizen; architectural epics are developed and maintained in a kanban systemObjective metrics (at all levels) support governance and kaizenStructured approach clarifying and approving Portfolio Backlog with EpicsClarifies additional Portfolio level roles, agile practices/techniques, teams needed for supporting agile-at-scale
Talking Points:Talk to Flow of Work into Program Level – inputs and outputs and how Portfolio Vision drives Program Backlog, Product Roadmap and Product VisionHighlight what some acronyms meanHighlight key Program Level Roles, Events, Artifacts, Inputs/Outputs:System Level: Planning, Test, Integration, Demo, GovernanceProgram / PSI-Release focus supports the delivery of fully tested, full-featured solutionsevery 3 months Face-to-face PSI-Release planning cadence provides development collaboration, alignment, synchronization, evaluationProduct / ProgramManagement :Decomposes Epics into business and technical Features and regularly grooms the Program Backlog; consumed by Scrum Team (POs)Participates in System Demos and approves Feature increments every 2 weeksDevelops Product Roadmap and Vision lists desired functionality for up to 3 future PSI-Releases summarized from the prioritized Program Backlog FeaturesDevOps will manage and extend an automated CI ecosystem and self-service infrastructureSystem Team supports system integration,cross-team E2E testingactivities, and System DemosSystem Architect and UX defines the technical elements and standards across all Program Release deliverablesRelease Management and Defect Management roles with key cross-team coordination and collaboration rolesEmbedded UAT Team required for every PSI/Release to incrementally plan and test Feature solutionsAggregated, real-time program metrics & dashboardInspect & Adapt Workshopat end of every PSI-Release boundary==============SAFe Guidelines:A self-organizing, self-managing team-of-agile-teams committed to continuous value delivery, aligned to a common missionDelivers fully tested, system-level solutions every 8-12 weeksCommon sprint lengths and normalized velocityRegular Architecture alignment via the Architectural Features and RunwayFace-to-face planning cadence provides development collaboration, alignment, synchronization, evaluation through System DemoReoccurring embedded UAT approachClarifies additional Program level roles, agile practices/techniques, teams needed for supporting agile-at-scale
Talking Points:Part of the SAFe framework most are probably already familiar with…Scrum, XP, etc.Talk to Flow of Work into Team Level – inputs and outputs and how Features drive and how things work highlighting new conceptsHighlight key Team Level Roles, Events, Artifacts, Inputs/Outputs:Empowered self-managing Teams that deliver fully tested, working software (user stories) every 2 weeksApply Scrum project management and eXtreme Programming (XP) technical approaches and practices (e.g. Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Demo, etc.)Dedicated Product Owner on each 7-9 member cross-functional Team – each with unique Domain focusThe Scrum Master serves as an Agile Coach for multiple TeamsTeams submit their component outputs to the program-level System Team for daily integration into the baselineTeams operate under common Vision linked through Epics, Features, StoriesBuilt in Hardening, Innovation, and Planning (HIP) Sprint supports needed refactoring and future event planningReal-time team metrics & dashboard support continuous improvement
Talking Points:DAD founders recognized that mainstream agile does NOT provide enough guidance for typical enterprises – mature implementations recognize an additional level of rigor, such as governance, architecture planning, and modelingDAD takes a goal-driven approachthat describes agile implementation and tailoring strategies to meet the needs of your organization’s situationToolkit: Adopts, extends, tailors mainstream agile practices, strategies, patterns from a variety of sourcesDAD Agile Scaling Model (ASM)defines a roadmap to effectivelyadopt and tailor agile strategies by: Foundation: leverage core agile methods Framework: adopting a disciplined agile delivery lifecycle Factor: recognize agile Scaling Factors to tailor adopted strategies to address delivery team complexities
Talking Points:End-to-end, full agile delivery lifecycle thatincludes:Inception, Construction, and Transition phases from beginning of project to production Each phase reflects agile Coordinate-Collaborate-Conclude (3C) rhythmLightweight explicit “milestones” and events to ensure program / teams focused on right things – not just construction aspects – governance and risk reduction strategyGoals driven approach = each agile delivery phase has a set of goals with correspondingcommon strategies and guidance for solution/delivery teams to tailor the process to address the context of their situationHybrid in that it extends Scrum, XP, and other proven agile methods to includes advice about technical practices (missing from Scrum) as well as modeling, documentation, and governance strategiesGoldilocks, just enough process to limit overly prescriptive or to tailor up processes that prevent reinventing / relearning techniques that Scrum/XP does not ocverProvides advice, alternatives and trade-offs in agile adoption strategy in a structured and disciplined wayOverall DAD delivery goals to fulfill project mission, grow team member skills, enhance existing infrastructure, improve team processes, address risks
Talking Points:2 levels of Inception:During one-time Project Initiation event at Program Level to get things going – like "Iteration 0" project readiness activities including On-boarding and trainingDuring iterative Release Initiation events for each PSI-ReleaseInception Phase goalhighlights:Forming and on-boarding of teamSet up work environment Get enough infrastructure to get startedIdentify high level business objectives for the project and perform lightweight visioning activities to properly frame the projectPerform architecture envisioning to ensure design going in the right direction Perform PSI-Release PlanningIdentify risks and address other PMP component
Talking Points:2 Paths to Construction Phase: Iterative Solution delivery - Emphasis on “standard” iterative working slice of solutionIntegrated Solution delivery – Emphasis on end to end working slice of solutionConstruction Phase goalhighlights:Period of time where required functionality is builtwithin timeboxed iterationsEnd of each iteration a demonstrable increment of potentially consumable solution has been produced and regression testedDelivery team applies a hybrid of “Standard” practices from Scrum, XP, Agile Modeling, Agile Data, and other methods to deliver the solutionSupports Daily Stand-up coordinationSupports Iteration planning and modelingBacklogsIteration DemoRetrosSpikesAgile metricsCIStrong emphasis on “Advanced” agile engineering practicesTDD/ATDDCDLook-Ahead planning and modelingContinuous documentationReleases determined by comparing whether there is sufficient functionality to justify the cost of transition – minimally marketable release (MMR)Performsome look-ahead planning and modeling, often referred to as backlog grooming, on a just-in-time basis to be more effective when implementing work items during each iterationLeverage the existing organizational ecosystem to reuse existing services, patterns, templates, code, guidelines and other assetsEncourage project specific process improvement through self-organization within the constraints that make sense for the organizationAdapt the types and formality of work products produced for the context of the projectsDoes not say who (person and team) performs action within approach like SAFe
Talking Points:2 Paths to Construction Phase: Iterative Solution delivery - Emphasis on “standard” iterative working slice of solutionIntegrated Solution delivery – Emphasis on end to end working slice of solutionConstruction Phase goalhighlights:Period of time where required functionality is builtwithin timeboxed iterationsEnd of each iteration a demonstrable increment of potentially consumable solution has been produced and regression testedDelivery team applies a hybrid of “Standard” practices from Scrum, XP, Agile Modeling, Agile Data, and other methods to deliver the solutionSupports Daily Stand-up coordinationSupports Iteration planning and modelingBacklogsIteration DemoRetrosSpikesAgile metricsCIStrong emphasis on “Advanced” agile engineering practicesTDD/ATDDCDLook-Ahead planning and modelingContinuous documentationReleases determined by comparing whether there is sufficient functionality to justify the cost of transition – minimally marketable release (MMR)Performsome look-ahead planning and modeling, often referred to as backlog grooming, on a just-in-time basis to be more effective when implementing work items during each iterationLeverage the existing organizational ecosystem to reuse existing services, patterns, templates, code, guidelines and other assetsEncourage project specific process improvement through self-organization within the constraints that make sense for the organizationAdapt the types and formality of work products produced for the context of the projectsDoes not say who (person and team) performs action within approach like SAFe
Talking Points:2 levels of Transition:During one-time Project Transition event at Program Level to address end of lifecycle testing and readiness before going into ProductionDuring iterative Release Transition event for each PSI-Release -- like “HIP Sprint" production readiness activities for a ReleaseTransition Phase goalhighlights:Focus on delivering system into Production across one or more PSI-ReleasesStakeholder training and documentationProduction infrastructure readiness and hardening; securityPerformEnd of lifecycle testing (e.g. UAT, performance, etc.)DAD recognizes that for sophisticated enterprise agile projects deploying the solution to the stakeholders is often not a trivial exerciseDAD teams, as well as the enterprise overall, will streamline their deployment processes so that over time this phase become shorters and ideally disappears from adopting continuous deployment strategiesIt takes discipline to evolve Transition from a phase to an activity.
Talking Points: GOVERNANCEEncourages collaboration with corporate stakeholders such as Enterprise Architects, Portfolio Managers, Program Management, DevOps, IT InfrastructureGovernance issue that address corporate assets: team roles and responsibilities, governing bodies, exceptions and escalation processes, knowledge sharing processes, metrics strategy, risk mitigation, reward structure, status reporting, audit processes, policies/standards/guidelines, artifacts and their lifecycles, etc.SCALING FACTORSDAD process framework provides a scalable foundation for agile deliveriesDAD requires pragmatic adaption of methods and approaches in context with environment and constraintsLarge-scale agile projects range of problem and solution complexities, so scaling factors need to be consider when tailoring your agile strategy, such as: Team size. Agile teams may range from as small as two people to hundreds and potentially thousands of people.Geographical distribution. A team may be located in a single room, on the same floor but in different offices or cubes, in the same building, in the same city, or even in different cities around the globe.Organizational distribution. Some agile teams are comprised of people who work for the same group in the same company. Other teams have people from different groups of the same company. Some teams are made up of people from similar organizations working together as a consortium. Some team members may be consultants or contractors. Sometimes some of the work is outsourced to one or more external service provider(s).Regulatory compliance. Some agile teams must conform to industry regulations such as the Dodd-Frank act, Sarbanes-Oxley, or Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.Domain complexity. Some teams apply agile techniques in straightforward situations, such as building an informational Web site, to more complex situations such as building an internal business application, and even in life-critical health-care systems.Technical complexity. Some agile teams build brand-new, “greenfield systems” from scratch running on a single technology platform with no need to integrate with other systems. At the other end of the spectrum some agile teams are working with multiple technologies, evolving and integrating with legacy systems, and evolving and accessing legacy data sources.Organizational complexity. In some organizations people work to the same vision and collaborate effectively. Other organizations suffer from politics. Some organizations have competing visions for how people should work and worse yet have various subgroups following and promoting those visions.Enterprise discipline. Many organizations want their teams to work toward a common enterprise architecture, take advantage of strategic reuse opportunities, and reflect their overall portfolio strategy.
Talking Points: Documentation does not go away particularly on FedGovt programsLightweight approaches congruent/tailored to fit within frameworkTechniques include combine, living documentation, agile artifactsExamples include Tangent PMP and metrics
Talking Points: Leverage these frameworks and make them work within the context of your environmentBoth DAD and SAFe are Hybrid Process frameworks - detailing how to scale agile to the enterpriseScaled Agile Framework (SAFe) since; Scaledagileframework.comDisciplined Agile Delivery (DAD); Disciplinedagiledelivery.comCertifications and Industry AwarenessSAFe SA and SPC certificationsDAD certifications - Yellow, Green, Black Belt http://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/
Talking Points:Leverage these frameworks and make them work within the context of your environmentTechnical architecture & development focus includes XP, agile modeling, agile data, and lean software development. Both DAD and SAFe are Hybrid Process frameworks - detailing how to scale agile to the enterpriseScaled Agile Framework (SAFe) since; Scaledagileframework.comDisciplined Agile Delivery (DAD); Disciplinedagiledelivery.comCertifications and Industry AwarenessSAFe SA and SPC certificationsDAD certifications - Yellow, Green, Black Belt http://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/