The document discusses scaling agile practices from Scrum to larger projects and organizations. It introduces IBM's Agile Scaling Model which includes core agile development, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Agility@Scale. Key practices that need to be scaled include product backlogs, roles, release planning, sprint planning, and sprint demos to address factors like large team sizes, geographic distribution, and organizational complexity. Case studies are provided on how organizations have successfully scaled agile.
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 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.
Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) : Presented by Dr. Sanjay Sa...oGuild .
Introduction to Disciplined Agile (DA): Learn about the four delivery lifecycles supported by DA; how DA is a hybrid that shows how proven practices from a range of sources fits together; how to take a flexible, non-prescriptive approach to agile development; the importance of being enterprise aware.
Disciplined Agile roles: Team Lead (ScrumMaster), Product Owner, Architecture Owner, Team Member, Stakeholder + five more optional scaling roles.
Inception Phase: Covers key activities for initiating a DA team, including initial requirements modelling, initial architecture modelling, initial release planning, strategies for your physical and virtual work environments, initial risk identification, and driving to a shared vision with your stakeholders.
Construction Phase: Describes many technical strategies for building consumable increments of your solution, including test-driven development (TDD), acceptance TDD, how to initiate an iteration/sprint, look-ahead modelling and planning, spikes, regular coordination meetings, continuous integration, continuous deployment, whole-team testing, parallel independent testing, information radiators, Kanban boards, burn up charts, and many more. In this module we also look at agile construction from a traditional point of view, showing how activities such as architecture, analysis, design, testing, management, and user experience (UX) are addressed all the way through the lifecycle.
Transition Phase: Overviews strategies for releasing the solution to your stakeholders.
This presentation gives an overview of the 4 approaches to Scaling Agile - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Scaling Agile at Spotify (SA@S).
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.
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 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.
Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) : Presented by Dr. Sanjay Sa...oGuild .
Introduction to Disciplined Agile (DA): Learn about the four delivery lifecycles supported by DA; how DA is a hybrid that shows how proven practices from a range of sources fits together; how to take a flexible, non-prescriptive approach to agile development; the importance of being enterprise aware.
Disciplined Agile roles: Team Lead (ScrumMaster), Product Owner, Architecture Owner, Team Member, Stakeholder + five more optional scaling roles.
Inception Phase: Covers key activities for initiating a DA team, including initial requirements modelling, initial architecture modelling, initial release planning, strategies for your physical and virtual work environments, initial risk identification, and driving to a shared vision with your stakeholders.
Construction Phase: Describes many technical strategies for building consumable increments of your solution, including test-driven development (TDD), acceptance TDD, how to initiate an iteration/sprint, look-ahead modelling and planning, spikes, regular coordination meetings, continuous integration, continuous deployment, whole-team testing, parallel independent testing, information radiators, Kanban boards, burn up charts, and many more. In this module we also look at agile construction from a traditional point of view, showing how activities such as architecture, analysis, design, testing, management, and user experience (UX) are addressed all the way through the lifecycle.
Transition Phase: Overviews strategies for releasing the solution to your stakeholders.
This presentation gives an overview of the 4 approaches to Scaling Agile - Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Scaling Agile at Spotify (SA@S).
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.
The Agile Metrics Panel
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Time: 11:30am to 12:00pm
Speaker(s): Hope Lynch, Mehul Kapadia, Rob Uhlrich
Track: Quantify Agile
Room: Farragut
Role(s): Change AgentCoachDev ManagerDevelopment DirectorDevOpsDirector EngineeringDirector OperationIT ManagerPMO / ePMOProduct Line Dir.Product ManagerProgram ManagerQARally Workspace AdminRelease Train EngineerUX
* Bring your toughest questions on identifying, measuring and analyzing Agile performance metrics. Our panel of experts will share their insights around what metrics work best in their organization, and which lead to decisive behaviors and cultures of innovation and speed.
* What metrics do you use to help your teams and programs improve?
* How do you use this information to target your improvement ares? Select training and consulting to help?
What advice do you have in terms of applying these techniques at other’s organizations?
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3s2S-SNFCo4
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This Edureka PPT on "Scaled Agile Framework" will help you understand how the scaled agile framework is used to scale agile practices and principles for large, complex and mission-critical projects. The topics discussed in this course are listed below:
Challenges of scaling agile
What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Levels of Scaled Agile Framework
Configurations of SAFe
Advantages and Disadvantages of SAFe
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AgileLIVE – Accelerate Enterprise Agile with the Scaled Agile Framework®: Part IVersionOne
Interested in finding out how to scale agile faster, easier and smarter using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe)? If so, make sure you watch this two-part webinar series!
Scrum, XP, Kanban and related methods have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary to scale across the enterprise. What the industry desperately needs is a solution that moves from a set of simplistic, disparate, development-centric methods, to a scalable, unified approach that addresses the complex constructs and additional stakeholders in the organization – and accelerates the realization of enterprise-class product or service initiatives via aligned and cooperative solution development.
Part I: Join Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, for an overview of SAFe, a publicly–accessible knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices for enterprise-class software development.
Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, has spent his career helping software teams achieve their goals. A renowned methodologist, author, coach, entrepreneur and executive, Dean's most recent project is the Scaled Agile Framework (scaledagileframework.com), a public-facing website which describes a comprehensive system for scaling lean and agile practices to the largest software enterprises.
Andy Powell is Product Evangelist for VersionOne and Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant. During his 12-year career in the software development industry, Andy has assisted in numerous 500+ person agile tool rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre, giving him considerable experience in leading major projects. Andy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and graduated magna cum laude.
Lee Cunningham is an Enterprise Agile Coach for VersionOne focused on agile program and portfolio management. Lee has trained and consulted with hundreds of teams in organizations of all sizes in the US, Canada and the UK. Lee served in the United States Air Force and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of North Florida.
The SAFe 5.0 white paper provides an overview of the Framework, the Big Picture graphic, the seven core competencies, and the values, mindset, principles, and practices that guide teams to more effectively build solutions in a far leaner—and more Agile—fashion.
Agile for Embedded & System Software Development : Presented by Priyank KS oGuild .
Priyank shared the experience of challenges in being Agile in Embedded/System software development. The effective approaches to handling such challenges were discussed. The importance of eXtreme Programming practices in solving the challenges was highlighted.
Opportunities for Project Managers in the Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFeRichard Knaster
The shift towards Lean-Agile approaches for software and systems development continues to grow at an accelerated rate. As a result, the opportunities for Project Managers in the midst of this transition have never been greater. Over 70% of the Fortune 100 are using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to implement Lean-Agile practices. In this webinar, SAFe Fellow Richard Knaster (PMP, PMI-ACP) and SAFe Senior Program Consultant Trainer Dr. Steve Mayner (PMP, PMI-ACP) will outline the opportunities for Project Managers within the context of SAFe, as well as how SAFe addresses core PMI knowledge areas such as: - Scope management - Time management - Cost management - Quality management - Risk management There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
What is scaling and how can it help to improve your organisation? What is the right mix of scaling principles and practices for your culture and teams? I will compare some agile approaches on scaling like Scaled Agile Framework aka SAFe, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) both based on principles of Lean Product Development and Scaling Agile @ Spotify.
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.
Disciplined Agile Delivery: Extending Scrum to the EnterpriseTechWell
Going far beyond the limits of a team approach to agile, Scott Ambler explores a disciplined, full-lifecycle methodology for agile software delivery. In this interactive hands-on session, learn how to initiate a large-scale agile project, exploring ways to extend Scrum's value-driven development approach to include both value and risk in the equation. Discover project governance practices that will increase your team's chance of success. Explore with Scott the agile practices—Extreme Programming, Agile Modeling, Agile Data, and the Unified Process—he has found most valuable for large agile teams. Throughout the session, learn to apply the Agile Scaling Model to determine what set of agile practices and techniques will work best for you and your organization. Bring your biggest agile challenges and be prepared to dig into ways to adjust your approach for greater success.
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.
Sepg 2014-pfister-growing our business with cmmi and agile togetherGreg Pfister
Greg Pfister, Vice President of Agile Practices at Agilex. Greg's work lives at the corner of mission-critical federal contracting and cutting-edge agile development practices. By adopting CMMI at this intersection, Agilex has achieved new levels of success. Greg's keynote will feature highlights from the Agilex journey with CMMI and Agile. Link to live presentation (starts at 16 minute mark) https://goo.gl/PQkWmz .
2021 marks the 20 anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. Yet many organizations are still struggling to clearly improve value delivery for their customers. In this talk Scott Ambler and Mark Lines explain why agile has struggled in the past and what we can do about it. Go beyond agile rhetoric, agile methods and frameworks and learn how to optimize agility for your situation, not others. We can do better, and it is not difficult. Disciplined Agile can help. The journey starts with an investment in learning, optimizing for your situation, and then removing obstacles to accelerate delivery and delight your customers.
Pressure to deliver business value faster, and more efficiently is everywhere. Companies are adopting Agile practices and going though the Agile Transformation because moving to agile methods offers any organization to outperform its former measures of productivity and profits. Several years ago, IBM Software Group began adapting agile software development practices and related products to their needs. This session will provide details where we started and what was our agile journey.
by Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile, IBM and Mark Lines, Agile Mentor and cofounder of UPMentors
Once considered viable only for small, co-located teams, agile software development practices have caught the attention of larger teams seeking improvements in product quality, team efficiency, and on-time delivery. This paper introduces an approach to agile that incorporates the added discipline larger teams need for success in software and systems delivery.
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.
Lean Agile Center of Excellence - Agile2017 TalkDeema Dajani
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.
Energy management is taking time management to the next step, It's finding the peaks and valleys of the day and exploiting them for all their worth. Here are 8 tips for maximizing your energy- and making your day more productive and fulfilling.
The Agile Metrics Panel
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Time: 11:30am to 12:00pm
Speaker(s): Hope Lynch, Mehul Kapadia, Rob Uhlrich
Track: Quantify Agile
Room: Farragut
Role(s): Change AgentCoachDev ManagerDevelopment DirectorDevOpsDirector EngineeringDirector OperationIT ManagerPMO / ePMOProduct Line Dir.Product ManagerProgram ManagerQARally Workspace AdminRelease Train EngineerUX
* Bring your toughest questions on identifying, measuring and analyzing Agile performance metrics. Our panel of experts will share their insights around what metrics work best in their organization, and which lead to decisive behaviors and cultures of innovation and speed.
* What metrics do you use to help your teams and programs improve?
* How do you use this information to target your improvement ares? Select training and consulting to help?
What advice do you have in terms of applying these techniques at other’s organizations?
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/3s2S-SNFCo4
** Edureka Certification Training: https://www.edureka.co **
This Edureka PPT on "Scaled Agile Framework" will help you understand how the scaled agile framework is used to scale agile practices and principles for large, complex and mission-critical projects. The topics discussed in this course are listed below:
Challenges of scaling agile
What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Levels of Scaled Agile Framework
Configurations of SAFe
Advantages and Disadvantages of SAFe
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AgileLIVE – Accelerate Enterprise Agile with the Scaled Agile Framework®: Part IVersionOne
Interested in finding out how to scale agile faster, easier and smarter using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe)? If so, make sure you watch this two-part webinar series!
Scrum, XP, Kanban and related methods have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary to scale across the enterprise. What the industry desperately needs is a solution that moves from a set of simplistic, disparate, development-centric methods, to a scalable, unified approach that addresses the complex constructs and additional stakeholders in the organization – and accelerates the realization of enterprise-class product or service initiatives via aligned and cooperative solution development.
Part I: Join Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, for an overview of SAFe, a publicly–accessible knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices for enterprise-class software development.
Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, has spent his career helping software teams achieve their goals. A renowned methodologist, author, coach, entrepreneur and executive, Dean's most recent project is the Scaled Agile Framework (scaledagileframework.com), a public-facing website which describes a comprehensive system for scaling lean and agile practices to the largest software enterprises.
Andy Powell is Product Evangelist for VersionOne and Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant. During his 12-year career in the software development industry, Andy has assisted in numerous 500+ person agile tool rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre, giving him considerable experience in leading major projects. Andy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and graduated magna cum laude.
Lee Cunningham is an Enterprise Agile Coach for VersionOne focused on agile program and portfolio management. Lee has trained and consulted with hundreds of teams in organizations of all sizes in the US, Canada and the UK. Lee served in the United States Air Force and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of North Florida.
The SAFe 5.0 white paper provides an overview of the Framework, the Big Picture graphic, the seven core competencies, and the values, mindset, principles, and practices that guide teams to more effectively build solutions in a far leaner—and more Agile—fashion.
Agile for Embedded & System Software Development : Presented by Priyank KS oGuild .
Priyank shared the experience of challenges in being Agile in Embedded/System software development. The effective approaches to handling such challenges were discussed. The importance of eXtreme Programming practices in solving the challenges was highlighted.
Opportunities for Project Managers in the Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFeRichard Knaster
The shift towards Lean-Agile approaches for software and systems development continues to grow at an accelerated rate. As a result, the opportunities for Project Managers in the midst of this transition have never been greater. Over 70% of the Fortune 100 are using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to implement Lean-Agile practices. In this webinar, SAFe Fellow Richard Knaster (PMP, PMI-ACP) and SAFe Senior Program Consultant Trainer Dr. Steve Mayner (PMP, PMI-ACP) will outline the opportunities for Project Managers within the context of SAFe, as well as how SAFe addresses core PMI knowledge areas such as: - Scope management - Time management - Cost management - Quality management - Risk management There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
What is scaling and how can it help to improve your organisation? What is the right mix of scaling principles and practices for your culture and teams? I will compare some agile approaches on scaling like Scaled Agile Framework aka SAFe, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) both based on principles of Lean Product Development and Scaling Agile @ Spotify.
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.
Disciplined Agile Delivery: Extending Scrum to the EnterpriseTechWell
Going far beyond the limits of a team approach to agile, Scott Ambler explores a disciplined, full-lifecycle methodology for agile software delivery. In this interactive hands-on session, learn how to initiate a large-scale agile project, exploring ways to extend Scrum's value-driven development approach to include both value and risk in the equation. Discover project governance practices that will increase your team's chance of success. Explore with Scott the agile practices—Extreme Programming, Agile Modeling, Agile Data, and the Unified Process—he has found most valuable for large agile teams. Throughout the session, learn to apply the Agile Scaling Model to determine what set of agile practices and techniques will work best for you and your organization. Bring your biggest agile challenges and be prepared to dig into ways to adjust your approach for greater success.
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.
Sepg 2014-pfister-growing our business with cmmi and agile togetherGreg Pfister
Greg Pfister, Vice President of Agile Practices at Agilex. Greg's work lives at the corner of mission-critical federal contracting and cutting-edge agile development practices. By adopting CMMI at this intersection, Agilex has achieved new levels of success. Greg's keynote will feature highlights from the Agilex journey with CMMI and Agile. Link to live presentation (starts at 16 minute mark) https://goo.gl/PQkWmz .
2021 marks the 20 anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. Yet many organizations are still struggling to clearly improve value delivery for their customers. In this talk Scott Ambler and Mark Lines explain why agile has struggled in the past and what we can do about it. Go beyond agile rhetoric, agile methods and frameworks and learn how to optimize agility for your situation, not others. We can do better, and it is not difficult. Disciplined Agile can help. The journey starts with an investment in learning, optimizing for your situation, and then removing obstacles to accelerate delivery and delight your customers.
Pressure to deliver business value faster, and more efficiently is everywhere. Companies are adopting Agile practices and going though the Agile Transformation because moving to agile methods offers any organization to outperform its former measures of productivity and profits. Several years ago, IBM Software Group began adapting agile software development practices and related products to their needs. This session will provide details where we started and what was our agile journey.
by Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile, IBM and Mark Lines, Agile Mentor and cofounder of UPMentors
Once considered viable only for small, co-located teams, agile software development practices have caught the attention of larger teams seeking improvements in product quality, team efficiency, and on-time delivery. This paper introduces an approach to agile that incorporates the added discipline larger teams need for success in software and systems delivery.
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.
Lean Agile Center of Excellence - Agile2017 TalkDeema Dajani
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.
Energy management is taking time management to the next step, It's finding the peaks and valleys of the day and exploiting them for all their worth. Here are 8 tips for maximizing your energy- and making your day more productive and fulfilling.
The world has embraced Agile Scrum and there is no looking back. How are offshore service providers going to cope with the adamant demands of Scrum Masters that they will work with only Co-located teams and that is what will deliver. Having been there and done that - SPAN has come up with a distributed Agile Scrum model that works. Beware - this model works only if all stakeholders want it to work earnestly - else there will be many ruses to do away with the distributed team
This is the version of the talk that I did at Agilepalooza Charlotte and Agile 2009. I will be doing this talk at the PMI Global Congress and Agile Dev Practices in the next few months.
While there are a many frameworks available to scale Agile it is important to see if these prescriptions address the real problems that an organization have while scaling up. Does one size fits all? Is it worth adopting a framework and then retrofitting your organization into it or it makes more sense to understand the dynamics of your organization, understand the existing challenges and business objectives and carve out a scaling approach, keeping Agile principles intact, that suits the organizations needs best.
Lets explore DIY framework
My presentation (in EN) from itSMF Pomorze (Poland) meeting. It shows how to combine SCRUM agility in product development with Corporate Governance controls from COBIT.
Operating a delivery model of 90:10 (90% - offshore and 10% onsite) or 80:10 implementing the agile practices could be very challenging. The aim of this presentation would be to bring out challenges faced by offshore agile teams. The presentation will be complemented with couple of case studies.
This is the talk I am doing at the 2010 SQE Better Software/Agile Development Practices Conference in Vegas this week. Not much new, but this is a combination of several ideas from many of my existing presentations.
This paper looks at the IBM Rational team’s experiences gained while applying agile/iterative strategies and techniques in organizations around the world, often at a scale far larger than the techniques were pioneered for.
The Agile Scaling Model (ASM) provides the context and advice for effectively tailoring agile techniques. It describes how to extend the agile construction life cycle into a full-fledged disciplined agile delivery life cycle. It then describes how to tailor agile practices to address scaling factors which an agile team may face, including team size, physical distribution, organizational distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity, technical complexity, and enterprise disciplines (such as enterprise architecture, reuse, and portfolio management).
Agile Anti-Patterns. Yes your agile projects can and will fail too.Sander Hoogendoorn
This is the slide deck for a smooth presentation on agile and agile anti-patterns I did recently at several international conferences, including GIDS (Bangalore), ACCU (Oxford), Camp Digital (Manchester), Agile Open Holland (Dieren) and Jazoon (Zurich).
From Waterfall to Agile - from predictive to adaptive methodsBjörn Jónsson
In this introduction into Agile methods, the background and environment of Software Development is discussed. Results of the 1995 Chaos report are mentioned, as well as interests in adaptive "lightweight" methods. Agile methods are explained in general and Scrum method taken as a concrete sample.
A Top 10 Key to Success for Architects, delivered by author Pete Eeles, IBM, hosted on the "Good Design is Good Business" group on developerWorks: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/669242b1-dd91-4d63-a08f-231314c793bb/entry/top_10_success_secrets_for_software_architects_good_design_is_good_business_series?lang=en
Agile Marketing for SEO - SMX West 2013 - Dave Lloyd, AdobeDave Lloyd
Slides from SMX West presentation. Covers in-house SEO, project management, Agile methodology, maturity model for Agile adoption, and how to execute on Agile internally. Follow me at @davelloyd1
Introducing the Rational Solution for Agile ALMMatt Holitza
How do you keep your agile teams focused on the task at hand while still providing management with the latest status? Find out in this presentation from IBM Innovate 2013.
2016 interconnect 7 habits of a successful scaled agile adoption using ibm clmReedy Feggins Jr
After reading “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, by Stephan R. Covey, I was struck by the similarities between the principles in his book and those of found in lean / agile development. The 7-Habits provide a great source for readers looking for guidance to better manage yourself, your environment and in the end makes your life for the better life. These 7 Habits, listed below, have already helped millions of people improve the quality of their life.
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind
Habit 3: Put first things first
Habit 4: Think win/win
Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the saw
Likewise, the 7-Habits for a Successful Scaled Agile Adoption using IBM CLM will provide a set of practices to improve the effectiveness of your agile adoption by assisting you with creating a culture in which the values of sustainable pace, predictable development, individual self-management and rapid product innovation are possible.
The details of these 7 habits, listed above, have been provided in the following presentation.
#IBMInterConnect - DCB-3094 Scaling Agile - Launching an Agile Release Train ...Reedy Feggins Jr
In this talk we discuss some of the best practices we have learned for successfully Launching an ART. We discuss how Rational Team Concert (#RTC) can be used to help coordinate the various team activities such as use story analysis, portfolio program and sprint planning, and communicating with the PPM, Agile program and team.
The presentation is from the 2015 #ibminterconnect Conference #feggreed2021
DCB-3094 Scaling Agile Launching a SAFe Agile Release Train using Rational Team Concert – Lesson Learned
Agile planning with Rational Team Concert (RTC) workshop provides tip for agile team to successfully use RTC to support for the three innermost levels of Mike Cohn's planning onion: product, release and sprint / iteration planning. RTC also provides extensive support source code management and integration to CI build and automated release deployment tools such as UrbanCode Deploy
For more information see https://jazz.net/library/article/593
Details
Rational Team Concert (RTC) provides a lightweight tool to help project teams plan, executing and monitor agile, waterfall and scaled agile development projects (such as Scrum, Scrum of Scrums, Disciplined Agile Delivery - DAD, or Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe.
For agile projects / programs, RTC provides tools to create product, release and sprint backlogs for teams, to create individual plans for developers, and to track the progress during an iteration and to balance the work load of developers.
For waterfall projects / programs, RTC provides development teams with traditional project management capabilities such as work breakdown structures, schedule dependencies, constraints and Gantt charts.
Scaling Agile and distributed development webinar v1.0Reedy Feggins Jr
The webcast is on agile development is overview of agile being done distributed. In this day and age when outsourcing is the standard and no development is co-located how does a company do agile development. You have license to do what every you want as long as it loosely fits the topic. Please send me the PowerPoint before or right after the presentation.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
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About the author
Reedy Feggins World-Wide Solution Architect, Agile Coach and Certified
ScrumMaster (CSM) at IBM Rational Software focused on
Increasing client competitiveness through adoption of agile practices, business
process optimization and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools
Holds certifications both as Scrum Master and Project Management Professional
(PMP), having spent the past five years in Agile projects in large organizations.
His agile journey began in 1997 with a small business within the AT&T, called
AT&T PersonalLink, and since then never stopped; has coached teams in agile
methods, including RAD, XP, Scrum, and RUP Lean / Kanban.
Reedy is has successfully deployed CLM at several Fortune 500
organizations and is a strong contributor within the Agile community
Personal Blogs: http://smoovejazz.wordpress.com/
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Agenda
Why Scaling Agile is difficult
Agile Scaling Model
What to Scale
Case Studies
Parting Thoughts
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Traditional
Traditional Agile
Waterfall
• The waterfall model is a sequential process in which progress is seen as
flowing steadily downwards through the phases of
Conception Construction
Initiation Testing
Analysis Production
Design Maintenance
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Agile, XP and Scrum
Traditional Agile
Agile
Lean
Practices
Waterfall
Extreme
Scrum Programming (XP)
• Scrum is the most common agile software development method for
managing software projects and product or application development.
• Sprints last between one week and one month,5 and are a "timeboxed"
(i.e. restricted to a specific duration) effort of a constant length.7
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Scrum
Scrum works well for small, co-located teams and can be scaled for
more complex situations
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Challenges with using Scrum
What about distributed teams
But what about big projects
Hard to conduct effective
Teams too large (15 – 20) Standup meetings
Overlapping work-streams Communication barriers
Fractured teams
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Challenges with using Scrum
But what a hybrid projects where
But what a hybrid projects where PM must track resources and
Long-range planning is required budgets
Multiple stakeholders (but no one Part-time resources
Product Owner)
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Examining Scrum
Advantages But it’s missing…
Focused on software construction Guidance on how to scaling and
by delivering value in 2 or 4 week which factors to consider
cycles
How to coordinate large-scale
Solid, proven kernel for effective project to deliver value each Sprint
software development
How to prepare large-scale Scrum
#1 Agile software development Teams to work together
framework used today
How to work together as a global
Simple framework into which good Scrum Team
practices "plug in"
How to deal with hybrid processes
Defines key points where team (traditional projects still exist)
engages stakeholders
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Scaling Agile is Difficult
One of the major areas organizations are struggling with
today is how to scale Agile methods
What works on small, co-located teams may be tough to duplicate on
more “real life” projects
Many times individual teams customize Scrum so practices vary from
one project to another, or another, or another…
Most Agile vendors have presentations and white papers on scaling but
often fail to provide details on which practices and why
IBM addressed scaling agile head-on with Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and
Agility@Scale which are designed to reduce risk and drive better results faster
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Agenda
Challenges Scaling Agile
Agile Scaling Model
What to Scale
Case Studies
Parting Thoughts
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What is the IBM Agile Scaling Model (ASM)
Agility at Scale
Scales to address more scaling factors
Technically complex development, hybrid projects
Multiple teams from different organizations
Disciplined Agile Delivery
Core Extends Scrum to address full system lifecycle (project startup,
software deployment)
Scales self organization to include appropriate governance
Adds practices to support distributed team delivering a
straightforward solution
Core Agile Development
Focus is on construction (Scrum, XP)
Goal is to develop a high-quality system in an evolutionary, collaborative, and
self-organizing manner
Value-driven lifecycle with regular production of working software
Small, co-located team developing straightforward software
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What is the IBM Agile Scaling Model (ASM)
Agility at
Scale Disciplined Agile Delivery
Scales to address Add practices for geo – Scales to include Extends Scrum to
more scaling factors team, large projects “right amount“ of address full system
straightforward solution governance lifecycle (project startup,
Technically complex software deployment
development, hybrid
projects
Multiple teams from
different
Core Agile Development
organizations
Focus is on software Small co-located team
construction (Scrum, XP) developing software
Value-driven lifecycle with regular Develop high-quality code in
production of working software an self-organizing manner
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The “5Ps” of IT: Look at the Big Picture
To achieve systemic improvement within an IT organization,
you need to address five primary issues:
1. People 1. Solution delivery is a “team sport”,
individuals and how they work together are
the primary determinants of success on most
projects.
2. Teams must have a coherent philosophical
2. Principles foundation which reflects organizations
3. Practices values to help guide decisions.
3. Effective practices or procedures describing
how people work together to achieve a goal.
4. The tools and technologies which people use
to perform their work.
4. Process
5. Tools
5. The “glue” which pulls everything together.
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Challenges to Scaling Agile (i.e., Agile Scaling Factors)
Team size Compliance requirement
Under 10 1000’s of Critical,
developers developers Low risk
audited
Geographical distribution Domain Complexity
Straight Intricate,
Co-located Global -forward emerging
Disciplined
Enterprise discipline Agile Organization distribution
Project Enterprise
Delivery (outsourcing, partnerships)
focus focus Collaborative Contractual
Organizational complexity Technical complexity
Flexible Rigid Heterogeneous,
Homogenous legacy
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Challenges Scaling Agile
Agile Scaling Model
What to Scale
Case Studies
Parting Thoughts
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Scrum Practices
Single Product Backlog
Rank-prioritized list of requirements (usually Epics and User stories)
Value-Driven Lifecycle
Deliver potentially shippable software each sprint
Planning at Multiple Levels
Release Planning – Continuously develop and maintain a high-level project plan
Sprint Planning – Each Sprint, the team plans what and how they will deliver
Daily Scrum Meeting – Each day hold a 15 minute coordination meeting
Self Organizing Teams
Sustainable Pace - At start of each Sprint team estimates work based on priorities set
by Product Owner and commits to work they can complete
Sprint Demo – At the end of the sprint demo what you’ve built to key stakeholders
Reflections – At the end of the sprint the team identifies potential improvements to the
way that they work
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Scrum – Focuses on Construction
Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 ….. Sprint X
Sprint 0 is
Production
short
handoffs are
easy
Scrum assumes Product Backlog has Scrum assumes Product Backlog has
been groomed or can be easily defined been groomed or can be easily defined
Assumes Project funding, high level Assumes Project funding, high level
scope, team and infrastructure are in scope, team and infrastructure are in
place place
Management buys in to project goals Management buys in to project goals
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Scale to support Entire life cycle
Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 ….. Sprint X
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Scaling Value Lifecycle to Risk-Value Lifecycle
Provides the extended team with explicit milestones centered on balancing risk
mitigation and value creation
Observations:
Key stakeholders frequently do not have time to carefully review and discuss the results of
every iteration.
Iteration demos are still a good idea for getting feedback.
Fewer key milestones where go/no-go decisions are made are actually needed.
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Agile Practices – how do you ensure these are being
executed repeatedly and consistently across many
projects?
User Story Driven Development Product Backlog
Continuous Integration & Deployment Value Driven Lifecycle
Iterative Development Self Organization
Retrospectives Release Planning
Test Driven Development Sprint Planning
Daily Scrums Sprint Demo
Pair Programming Architecture Envisioning
Whole Team Architecture Spike
Automated unit testing Shared Vision
Sustainable Pace Refactoring
Automated Metrics User Acceptance Testing
Parallel Independent Testing Continuous Documentation
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Which Practices to scale
Most Core Scrum practices can / should be scaled as needed
Scrum roles
Release Planning
Sprint Planning
Sprint Demos / Retrospectives
Some practices are more challenging to scale then others to be effective
Self-organizing teams
Daily Meetings
Product Backlog
Scaling some practices require tool support
Continuous Integration
Portfolio Planning
Sometimes additional practices must be added
Independent Testers
Architecture Envisioning
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Scale Scrum roles to be more realistic
Scrum Master
Leader/coach
Facilitates scrum meetings such
as sprint planning, sprint demo,
and daily Scrum meetings
Product Owner
Represents the stakeholders
Owns the product backlog,
including the requirements
Provides information and makes
decisions in a timely manner
“The one neck to wring”
Team Member
Anyone else on the team
Developers, Testers, Business
Analysts
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Scaling Product Owner
Product owner is really a communication conduit between the team
and stakeholders
Owns the work item list, including the requirements
Must have agile business analysis skills
Will often work with business analysts who elicit requirements from others
PO gets the team access to the relevant stakeholders just in time
Needs to negotiate, negotiate, negotiate
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Add Additional Roles as Required
Architecture Owner
Facilitates technical decisions
Coordinates technical discussions between teams
Domain Expert
Has detailed knowledge about one or more aspects of the
problem domain
Technical Expert
Has detailed technical knowledge needed for short period
Independent Tester
Focuses on complex testing efforts, working parallel but
independent of the team
Integrator
Responsible for building the entire system from its various
subsystems
Specialist
Note: Many of these additional
roles may be needed on
Sometimes component sub-teams require people focused
on narrow specialties
smaller teams too!
E.g. Business analysts, security experts, database
administrators, usability professionals
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Scaling Product Backlogs: Work Item Lists
Development teams do
more than just implement
requirements, they also fix
defects, go on training,
review the work of other
teams, and so on. All of this
work needs to be taken into
account when planning.
Smart teams look a few
iterations down the stack for
complex work items and
then mitigate the risk by
modeling a bit ahead.
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Scaling product backlogs
Disciplined agile delivery
Defects treated like requirements and managed on backlog
Non-functionality work items, such as training, reviews, can be managed on backlog
Geographic distribution
Manage the backlog electronically
Team size
Subteams may have their own backlogs, but that makes rollups harder
Burndowns of subteams need to be rolled up into overall team burndown
Regulatory compliance
May need to manage backlog electronically
Domain complexity
Business analysts look ahead on the product backlog to explore upcoming complexities
Organizational distribution
A given organizational unit may only be allowed to see portions of the backlog
Technical complexity
Team members look a bit ahead on stack to consider upcoming complexities
Organizational complexity
Your team may need to conform to existing change management processes
Enterprise discipline
Electronic backlog management enables automation of burndown charts and other metrics via project
dashboard (e.g. in Rational Team Concert), supporting improved governance
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Scaling release planning
Geographic distribution, Large team size
Plan needs to be captured electronically so that everyone has access
Sprint lengths/rhythms of the sub-teams should be a divisor of the larger team
Sub-teams may need their own release plans
Overall plan must reflect the plans of the sub-teams
Technical complexity, Organizational complexity
Dependencies on other teams are critical and need to be reflected in release plan,
particularly non-agile teams which have lower chances of on-time delivery
Dependencies on non-agile teams may require changes in the strategies of all
teams involved
Organizational distribution, Regulatory compliance, Enterprise
discipline
Release plan must reflect portfolio-level and product-level plans
Plan, and updates to it, may need to be documented
Planning across multiple organizations will potentially take longer and require
greater detail
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Scaling sprint planning
Geographic distribution, Regulatory compliance
Capture plans electronically
Sprint plans may need to be documented
Team size
Scrum Masters must coordinate with each other on major dependencies
spanning sub-teams
Each sub-team is responsible for its own iteration planning and need to
Teams needs to be aware of dependencies particularly when sub-teams
have different iteration lengths/schedules
More upfront Sprint grooming required to review user stories, estimate,
discuss dependencies, reduce duplications across stories,…
Domain complexity, Technical complexity
Teams need to engage in look-ahead planning, not just plan for upcoming
sprint
Teams need to be aware of technical dependencies between subsystems
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Scaling Daily Stand Up Meetings
Geographic distribution
Meeting occurs over phone, video, electronically…
Rational Team Concert (RTC) to share information
Change meeting times to reflect team distribution – spread the pain
Team size
Kanban strategy is to ask 1 question: What new issues do you foresee?
“scrum of scrums” to coordinate subteams
Organizational distribution
Add more coordination between organizations
Adopt Project dashboards to share with external organizations
Add more formal decisions/action and document items pertaining to external
organizations
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Scaling Sprint Demos
Geographic distribution
Demos occurs physically where possible, but transmitted electronically
Change demo times to reflect team distribution – spread the pain
Greater need to schedule the demos ahead of time
Team size
Prioritize which subteam(s) should demo to the entire team
Individual subteams should do their own demos to their smaller community
Regulatory compliance
Take meeting attendance and record action items (if any)
Domain complexity
Invite a wider range of stakeholders required, not just insiders
Organizational distribution
Invite stakeholders from each organization unit
Separate demos may be required by some organization units specific to them
Technical complexity
Some of the work may not be visible through user interface, so may need to do a
technical walkthrough instead
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Scaling reflections/retrospectives
Disciplined agile delivery
Track your progress with IBM Rational SelfCheck
Geographic distribution
Hold retrospectives electronically to include everyone
Team size
Subteams should hold their own retrospectives
Subteams should share ideas with each other
Regulatory compliance
May need to record any changes to your process
Organizational distribution
May not be allowed to share improvements between organizations
Organizational complexity
Existing process improvement strategies may focus on reviews (post mortems) at the end of
the project
Process improvement may be “owned” by a specific process group
Enterprise discipline
Consider an agile center of competency (CoC) to share ideas
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Scaling Self-Organization
Lean development governance
Teams don’t work in a vacuum
Self-governance must be constrained by enterprise goals and
environment
Lean Development Governance paper by Ambler and Kroll, 2008
Automated measurements and project dashboards
It is possible to streamline much of the Scrum bureaucracy
through automation
This is true empiricism, not just marketing rhetoric
Rational Team Concert (RTC) for project dashboard
Rational Insight for portfolio-level dashboard
Adopt corporate development conventions
“Enforce” and monitor via static analysis tools
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Scaling self organization
Disciplined agile delivery
Disciplined agile developers are self organizing within an appropriate governance
framework
Regulatory compliance
Plans, estimates, and so on may need to be recorded
Organizational complexity
May need to educate management team on collaborative leadership and facilitation
May need to provide education to help others shift from command-control to self-
organizing
Enterprise discipline
Application architecture decisions are constrained by enterprise infrastructure and
futures directions
Application architecture enhanced by leveraging existing infrastructure and
reusable assets
Release plan must reflect portfolio and project plans
Agile teams should follow enterprise-level guidelines (e.g. coding standards, data
standards, UI standards, …)
Adopt a Lean Development Governance strategy (see paper by Ambler and Kroll)
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Agenda
Challenges Scaling Agile
Agile Scaling Model
What to Scale
Case Studies
Parting Thoughts
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Agenda
Challenges Scaling Agile
Agile Scaling Model
What to Scale
Case Studies
Parting Thoughts
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Jazz is an open platform with a shared set of services
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Existing Rational New Rational/ Business Partner
Offerings IBM Offerings Offerings
Business
Your Planning
Existing & Alignment
Capabilities Product Compliance Collaborative
& Project & Lifecycle Design
Future Management Security Management & 3rd-Party
IBM Development Jazz
Capabilities Capabilities
Best Practice Processes
Administration: Users,
Collaboration projects, process
Presentation: Storage
Mashups Discovery Query
Jazz is…
A scalable, extensible team collaboration platform which supports Scrum development
A community at Jazz.net, where you can see Jazz-based products being built
An integration architecture, enabling mashups and non-Jazz based products to participate
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Visit us at:
@ Rational Brasil
@ Rational Users Group
@ IBM Rational Software
@ IBM Brasil – Rational
@ IBM Brasil – Plataforma Jazz
@ O Mundo depende de Software
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References
Scott Ambler. The Agile Scaling Model (ASM),
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/raw14204usen/RAW14204USEN.PDF
Scott Ambler. Scaling Agile: An Executive Guide,
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/raw14211usen/RAW14211USEN.PDF
Scott Ambler. Improving Software Economics: Top 10 Principles of Achieving
Agility@Scale,
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/raw14148usen/RAW14148USEN.PDF
Enable the Agile Enterprise Through Incremental Adoption of Practices,
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/raw14077usen/RAW14077USEN.PDF
Disciplined Agile Delivery: An Introduction,
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/raw14261usen/RAW14261USEN.PDF
Per Kroll. “Measuring the Results of Your Agile Adoption - Using the Measured Capability
Improvement Framework”
Ted Rivera, Ed Richard. Core Iteration Metrics. “Agile and Lean Metrics: Quantifying
Agile Adoption and Business Contribution across the Entire Value Stream”
ScrumSenses, “Agile Metrics”. http://ww.scrumsense.com/coaching/metrics
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