The document discusses the challenges of scaling agility in an enterprise. It uses the metaphor of chickens and pigs, where pigs are fully committed to a project and chickens are involved but also have other responsibilities. When scaling agility enterprise-wide, challenges can arise from people, processes, technology and uneven skills. A "chicken's manifesto" values adaptability over predictability, effectiveness over efficiency, and optimizing the whole system rather than parts. The role of chickens is likened to the butterfly effect, where small actions can have large impacts.

1. Scaling Agility – Story of a “Chicken” Lalatendu Das www.agiletour.org

2. The Pig vs. Chicken metaphor www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.implementingscrum.com

3. In a typical Scrum team.. www.agiletour.org Pigs are totally committed to the project and accountable for its outcomes e.g. Developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners Chickens are involved in the project(s) and stand to benefit from individual projects e.g. Managers, Leaders, Coaches

4. Implementing Agile at enterprise scale? www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.implementingscrum.com

5. Or simply ‘Scaling’ agilility? www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.implementingscrum.com

6. this is my Story www.agiletour.org 2006 2007 2009 2010 Oct 2011 Pilot Projects Enterprise wide agile rollout Stabilization Enterprise Agile 2.0 - Scrum - Co-located teams - Ruby on Rails - Partially distributed teams - Ruby on Rails, Java, RDBMS - XP Engineering Practices - Distributed teams - Established Organization Rhythm - Reduce waste - One week sprints - One month release cycle

8. Challenges of scaling agility www.agiletour.org People Process Technology Agile project team

10. Challenges of scaling agility (Contd..) www.agiletour.org People Process Technology Source: Alan Bustamante and Rahul Sawhney, Seapine Software Inefficient team

11. Challenges of scaling agility (Contd..) www.agiletour.org People Process Technology Source: Alan Bustamante and Rahul Sawhney, Seapine Software Disorganized team

12. Challenges of scaling agility (Contd..) www.agiletour.org People Process Technology Source: Alan Bustamante and Rahul Sawhney, Seapine Software Disengaged team

13. unmanaged scaling of agility is.. www.agiletour.org Scary!

14. Role of a Chicken in scaling agility www.agiletour.org The Butterfly Effect “ In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a at one place in a can result in to a later state” Source: http://www.wikipedia.org small change nonlinear system large differences

15. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility www.agiletour.org As responsible agile practitioners, we are optimizing the value delivered through agile software development by scaling agile adoption. In addition to the manifesto for agile software development, we have come to value: attitude over skill adaptability over predictability effectiveness over efficiency optimizing the whole over improvement in parts That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. 1 2 3 4

16. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.wikipedia.org attitude over skill

17. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) www.agiletour.org The unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. Source: http://www.wikipedia.org Dunning-Kruger effect attitude over skill 1

18. www.agiletour.org " in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence " Peter Principle Source: http://www.wikipedia.org A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) attitude over skill 1

20. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.wikipedia.org adaptability over predictability

21. www.agiletour.org The cone of uncertainty Source: Russel Pannone @ We be agile 0% 15% Final Estimate Initial Estimate Order of Magnitude Estimate 50% 100% Time Scope, Cost and Schedule uncertainty A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) adaptability over predictability 2 -15% -30%

22. www.agiletour.org Adapting to uncertainty Source: Russel Pannone @ We be agile 0% 15% 50% 100% Time Scope, Cost and Schedule uncertainty Initiate Authorize Execute A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) -15% -30% adaptability over predictability 2

23. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.wikipedia.org effectiveness over efficiency

24. www.agiletour.org Enterprise application Support – Phase #1 A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) effectiveness over efficiency 3 ?

25. www.agiletour.org Support 2.0 (Kanban) A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) effectiveness over efficiency 3

26. A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) www.agiletour.org Source: http://www.wikipedia.org optimizing the whole over improvement in parts

27. www.agiletour.org If each subsystem, regarded separately, is made to operate with maximum efficiency, the system as a whole will not operate with utmost efficiency. Principle of Sub-optimization A Chicken’s manifesto for scaling agility (Contd.) optimizing the whole over improvement in parts 4

29. Parting thoughts www.agiletour.org 1 hire for attitude ; train for skill 2 need for predictability is overrated doing right things, not just doing things right 3 the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts 4

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