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This is a presentation made to Surge Accelerator in Houston in March 2013. This serves as a Guide to Early Stage Technology Companies, building enterprise class software.
This covers the typical lifecycle of a software start-up, fundamentals of Agile software development, and some do's and don't for how to build successful software companies.
Agile implementation in CSR Haifa SW - Michael Levin - Agile Israel 2013AgileSparks
CSR Haifa SW group is a part of global SW organization developing SW for CSR COACH (Camera on a Chip) SoC.
The main problem we faced is a degraded SW releases quality and as a result, low customer satisfaction, big amount of bugs, etc..
From other side, SW QA team is not part of our group and we cannot utilize this resource for our purposes.
You will hear about our approach to SW quality improvement through Agile implementation.
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A properly implemented Agile method increases the speed of development, aligns individual and organization objectives, creates a culture driven by performance, supports shareholder value creation, achieves stable and consistent communication of performance at all levels, and enhances individual development and quality of life.
This is a presentation made to Surge Accelerator in Houston in March 2013. This serves as a Guide to Early Stage Technology Companies, building enterprise class software.
This covers the typical lifecycle of a software start-up, fundamentals of Agile software development, and some do's and don't for how to build successful software companies.
Agile implementation in CSR Haifa SW - Michael Levin - Agile Israel 2013AgileSparks
CSR Haifa SW group is a part of global SW organization developing SW for CSR COACH (Camera on a Chip) SoC.
The main problem we faced is a degraded SW releases quality and as a result, low customer satisfaction, big amount of bugs, etc..
From other side, SW QA team is not part of our group and we cannot utilize this resource for our purposes.
You will hear about our approach to SW quality improvement through Agile implementation.
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http://systemagility.com
http://lero.ie/event/leroindustryresearchday
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The 3 lessons I talk about are:
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2. Customer Development
3. Learn to see Waste
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* What is Solution Architecture and how it differs from other architectures
* What is good and what is bad for SA, tips & tricks from our experience
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Join us in London, 20th June 2013. Keynote addresses, masterclasses and round table discussions with leading PPM visionaries. Free to attend if you pre-register. http://uk.apmg-showcase.com/
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Many large scale organizations experience significant challenges as they pursue agile and DevOps transformations. They embark on adopting agile practices yet fail to reap the benefits of continuous release and delivery. Siraj Berhan explores common challenges—people, processes, technology, and operations—in the agile journey of large-scale organizations. Siraj explores a project suitability assessment tool for evaluating as well as mitigating risks specific to agile delivery, incorporating a time-and-material funding model, and maintaining a cross-functional self-managing team with a generalist-specialist attitude. Siraj discusses moving from a test-last mentality to a test-driven culture with a heavy emphasis on automation that supports continuous integration, release, and delivery. He offers suggestions for promoting collocated development model to maximize the team’s agility and velocity while leveraging the usage of collaboration tools to its fullest. Explore ways to revamp engineering skillsets across the enterprise with practices and approaches that enable agility. Learn twelve helpful tips for getting started and additional advice for scaling your agile and DevOps journey.
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Feature teams structure is a well known good-engineering-practice, especially for agile, busniess driven organizations. However, transferring an organization from component to feature teams is always a challange. Most organization actually keep their component driven structure and way of operation. This lecture is intended for those who have already been convinced about the benefits and value of feature teams, but are still hesitant to make the change. In this lecture we shall discuss optional migration paths and share practical considerations and tips to help make the transition effective and worth doing.
My talk about DevOps in Knowit Developer Summit 2018 in Oslo. This talk is a condensed version of the DevOps workshop I run for management teams and technical teams to start their journey as an organization towards DevOps. We refer to DASA DevOps Agile Skills Association's definitions of DevOps. The talk includes also Knowit DevOps Maturity Model high level description.
How can we leverage agility for organisations of 10,000+ people? We know how 5-7 person teams can become highly effective. Want to hear about the common techniques for taking a single team of high-performing, innovative individuals and scaling them up into your entire organisation? Join our conversation to learn:
• The change management challenges of implementing a large scale agile program
• Understand the meta-framework for prescriptive frameworks through to principle led approaches
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• We’ll take questions from the group about how to apply to your situation.
From IIT Academy, Hong Kong - meetup.com/IITAcademyHK
IIT Academy: Agile.
So, you’ve got one or two agile teams and you want to scale them up. There’s a lot of scaling frameworks out there – Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), XScale, DSDM, et al. Which do you choose? How can you adjust them to your needs? See a survey of the field and understand the considerations when applying such a framework to your teams. Designed for Executives, Project Sponsors, Delivery Managers, Change Managers and Product Owners.
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More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9281/principle-11-needs-to-go
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
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Research on Impediments to Product Development FlowKen Power
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http://systemagility.com
http://lero.ie/event/leroindustryresearchday
Resource Planning is one of the biggest headaches for medium to large organizations. Creating a detailed resource plan that is meaningful is very difficult, and keeping it up to date is almost impossible. Plans that look good are often an attractive fiction, full of unrealistic assumptions, over-allocations, and the spreading of too-few people in too many ways.
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2. Customer Development
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Solution Architecture tips & tricks by Roman ShramkovJavaDayUA
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* What is Solution Architecture and how it differs from other architectures
* What is good and what is bad for SA, tips & tricks from our experience
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Join us in London, 20th June 2013. Keynote addresses, masterclasses and round table discussions with leading PPM visionaries. Free to attend if you pre-register. http://uk.apmg-showcase.com/
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Many large scale organizations experience significant challenges as they pursue agile and DevOps transformations. They embark on adopting agile practices yet fail to reap the benefits of continuous release and delivery. Siraj Berhan explores common challenges—people, processes, technology, and operations—in the agile journey of large-scale organizations. Siraj explores a project suitability assessment tool for evaluating as well as mitigating risks specific to agile delivery, incorporating a time-and-material funding model, and maintaining a cross-functional self-managing team with a generalist-specialist attitude. Siraj discusses moving from a test-last mentality to a test-driven culture with a heavy emphasis on automation that supports continuous integration, release, and delivery. He offers suggestions for promoting collocated development model to maximize the team’s agility and velocity while leveraging the usage of collaboration tools to its fullest. Explore ways to revamp engineering skillsets across the enterprise with practices and approaches that enable agility. Learn twelve helpful tips for getting started and additional advice for scaling your agile and DevOps journey.
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How can we leverage agility for organisations of 10,000+ people? We know how 5-7 person teams can become highly effective. Want to hear about the common techniques for taking a single team of high-performing, innovative individuals and scaling them up into your entire organisation? Join our conversation to learn:
• The change management challenges of implementing a large scale agile program
• Understand the meta-framework for prescriptive frameworks through to principle led approaches
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• We’ll take questions from the group about how to apply to your situation.
From IIT Academy, Hong Kong - meetup.com/IITAcademyHK
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So, you’ve got one or two agile teams and you want to scale them up. There’s a lot of scaling frameworks out there – Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), XScale, DSDM, et al. Which do you choose? How can you adjust them to your needs? See a survey of the field and understand the considerations when applying such a framework to your teams. Designed for Executives, Project Sponsors, Delivery Managers, Change Managers and Product Owners.
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More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9281/principle-11-needs-to-go
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
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Implementing distributed agile framework with
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* Distributed Agile
* legacy modernization
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Keep your integration tests running fast so that devs can more easily write and debug their tests and get the quick feedback loops they need
Facilitate remote, in-cluster development and give every developer their own isolated namespace—and never again ask a developer to deploy the application on their laptop
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If you watch this one please rate it and do share this presentation to others so then can easily learn more about the Agile Methodology.
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The slides are used as talking points during the talk, with some supporting material in the links and speaker notes.
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Speaker notes are included.
Links can be found at:
http://pinboard.in/u:akohli/t:talks:tcd/t:talks:arch/
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The adoption of disciplined agile and lean strategies that are based on collaboration, enablement, and streamlining the flow of work are the keys to EA success. Disciplined strategies that produce light-weight, yet still sufficient, artifacts are the key to your success. This presentation explores both the success factors and failure factors surrounding EA, pragmatic strategies for a lean/agile approach to EA, and how EA is supported and enhanced by the Disciplined Agile framework. This isn’t your grandfather’s EA strategy.
This is take two of the presentation, some things added, some removed, but still the regurgitation is best..
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YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3s2S-SNFCo4
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1. Scaling Agile Bejoy Jaison
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Brisbane, Australia
Agile and DevOps Conference
Keynote: Scaling Agile
Speaker:
Bejoy Jaison
3. vs
what is scale?
Scale signifies size and complexity
Usually:
• is expensive and valuable
• has a bigger purpose, although the Eiffel Tower was just an
entrance to the World Expo.
• is widely used, so characteristics like strength and robustness
are desirable
• needs more than one type of material (non-homogenous)
• being complex, rework is expensive
4. three goals for today
keep it simple
stick to fundamentals
be framework-agnostic
• Frameworks abstract problem with ready-made solutions. Today, I want to deconstruct frameworks and talk about some
issues frameworks try to address. We will also look at other areas that make a big impact on agile at scale.
• I also wish to stay away from foreign language, especially Japanese, terms that are widely used by Agile speakers
6. a simplistic view of agile
the capability to adapt in order to deliver value efficiently
an environment that promotes and sustains this capability
Capability: We have put people on the moon. At least that’s what we are led to believe.
Sustainability: People can thrive and create communities on the moon.
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7. building capability
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problem-solving managing complexity
what kind of skills and experience are essential for scale?
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development companies.
• At scale, solid skills with maturity is crucial to get things right the first time
• Leadership, devoid of insecurity and personal ego, is required to wear multiple hats or deep-dive
• Without problem-solving skills, impediments remain forever and workarounds just add layers of duct tape or bandage.
• At scale, building a solution is about people being able to find ways to breakdown and simplify.
8. traditional team structure
team 1
team 2
team 3
team 4
team 5
teams are aligned based on specific skill-sets or components/systems that they own.
owns component a
owns components b, c
owns component d
owns component e
owns components f, g
feature1
feature2
feature3feature4
feature
backlog
feature 5
feature 6
feature 7
feature 8
feature 9
feature 10
feature 11
feature 12
feature 13
feature 14
feature 15
challenges
• dependencies, including circular
• context-switching within teams
• decision-making across teams
9. feature-based teams
feature team 1
feature team 2
feature team 3
feature team 4
feature team 5
benefits
• multiple, parallel pipelines of work
• minimized dependencies and wait
• faster decision-making within teams
challenges
• resourcing and training
• niche skills as Communities of Practice
Cross-functional teams having all (or almost all) the skills to deliver any feature from the pipeline
feature 1
feature 2feature 3
feature 4
feature 5
feature 6
feature
backlog
feature 7
feature 8
feature 9
feature 10
feature 11
feature 12
feature 13
feature 14
feature 15
feature 16
feature 17
With feature-based teams
• scaling can be done by finding efficient ways to
creating more teams
• the focus shifts to breaking down requirements
into smaller features that could be delivered
independently
• new models required for support and operations
10. leadership
• orchestration to maximize value, sustain focus and drive feedback
• scale puts pressure on leadership
• focused roles to drive/facilitate niche areas across teams
The role of leadership in agile environments is to
• maintain conditions favorable to agility.
• ensure focus at every level of breakdown
• ensure focus for every critical area
• facilitate visibility of value by reporting
• create mechanisms for collaboration and feedback
• reduce variance in technologies and ways of working across parts of the organization
Focused roles could include
• Release management
• Integration experts
• Test architecture
Having experienced agile practitioners who can wear multiple hats are very valuable to deep dive and solve problems.
11. engineering
Millau Viaduct by Stefan Krause, Germany - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8990774
Build in France more than 100 years after the Eiffel Tower, the Millau Viaduct is another design and technology marvel at scale.
12. architecture & design design patterns specification
solution engineering
• monolithic vs modular
• componentization
• testability
• documented vs undocumented
• enable parallel development
• BDD/ATDD
• simplify complex models
• common design language
• With feature-based teams,
only modular architectures
allow parallel feature
development.
• Share story from Nokia.
• Specification helps to
articulate and refine
understanding.
• Drives collaboration and
shared understanding.
• Share story on Swagger specs
• Allows easy collaboration on
solutions.
13. software engineering
branching strategy
code quality
CI/CD capability
automation choices
devops
traceability
1. CI/CD capability
• Continuous integration -> Continuous testing -> Continuous delivery
• At scale, the benefits from end-to-end automation is exponential.
• Be prepared to invest in eliminating difficult automation problems. Custom problems need custom solutions.
2. DevOps
• Not just infrastructure orchestration and automated deployment
• Continuous feedback between operations and development.
• Story: Splunk dashboards helping to reduce our operations and troubleshoot effort.
14. software engineering:
branching strategy
feature branches git flow feature toggles
vs vs
https://i.stack.imgur.com/J4QQd.png
https://datasift.github.io/gitflow/GitFlowHotfixBranch.png
https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
Select a strategy that considers release cadence as well as constraints related to test environments
• At scale and complexity, traditional or git-flow strategies are sometimes difficult depending on
complexity and cost of test environments.
• Feature toggling helps eliminate the feature-readiness decision making until after deployment.
15. software engineering:
quality of code as well as test
• code quality metrics
• test coverage
Code Quality
Often, an actual physical solution contains only four things:
• Code
• Configuration
• Integration of various components
• Documentation
Code often has the biggest impact.
Code Coverage
Test coverage helps understand risks around testing.
Good regression coverage is essential for continuous delivery.
16. software engineering:
automation choices
• invest in solid test tools, frameworks and skills
• explore keyword-based tools to scale automated testing to business/UAT
• expand scope to cover contract testing
• embrace continuous testing
• automate analysis to deal with large volume of failures
• replace niggling and error-prone configuration with automation
• Modern commercial test automation tools and frameworks have state-of-art features like object recognition, model-based or keyword-
based testing as well as end-to-end CI/CD integration. They could provide significantly higher efficiency and ROI compared to the
turnaround time and energy required for older code-based tools like Selenium.
• Insert story about using Ranorex to churn out 100+ test cases a day and thus substantially increasing code-coverage
17. software engineering:
traceability
• the holy grail of IT and software development
• provides real-time visibility of value for decision making
• result of selecting the right set of tools
18. OrganizationalAlignmentNeededHigh-><-Low
Impact to Project Cost High -><- Low
Breaking down
features
Single prioritized backlog
Daily team stand-up
Incremental/Iterative
development
Code quality
Regular business
feedback
Automated &
continuous testing
Automated and
continuous builds
Continuous delivery with
automated governance
Cross functional, empowered
teams
Modular architecture &
design
the significant ones
19. collaboration
Since scale often requires large groups of people working across multiple locations, effective collaboration and way-of-working strategies are
crucial to get the most out of delivery teams.
20. collaborative continuous delivery at scale
teams
CI/CD infrastructure
implementation
and quality
automated
delivery
architecture documents
design specifications
value and realization
plan
delivery
metrics
automated
governance
requirements & stories
automated test scripts
code reviews
build scripts
deployment scripts
infrastructure &
provisioning
test cases test plans
code and configuration
defects
governance criteria
dev
test &
automation
business devops
release
management
architecture
acceptance tests
Scale highlights the importance of engineering and collaboration tools that help teams work with each other, yet focus on
their own skills and artefacts.
