Scaling (Down!) Agile?
Vinay S. Ghule
Founder & CTO
Discuss Agile Day - Pune
27th Nov 2016
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is
specifically your own”
Foundations
#Lean Thinking #Lean Software Development
#Scrum #XP #Kanban
#Product Development Flow
World of Scaling Agile
A human institution designed to create
new products and services under conditions of
Extreme Uncertainty
- Eric Ries
A New World
A Temporary organization
in Search of a
Repeatable & Scalable Business Model
- Steve Blank
A Dilemma
AgileEnterprise Startup
√ ?
Exploration
History of Agile
New Trends
Group Activity
min
Individuals & Interactions
Working Software
Customer Collaboration
Responding to Change
History of Agile
RAD
1991
RUP, DSDM
1994
SCRUM
1995
Crystal, XP
1996
FDD
1997
2001
History of Agile
Key Takeaways
• Plan Driven/Predictive approach vs. Adaptive Planning approach
• Centered around core – Software Development
• Systems Thinking?
• Agile in Startups?
New Trends
1. The Lean Startup
Minimum Viable Product
Build – Measure - Learn
Innovation Accounting
Pivot
Split Testing
New Trends
2. Design Thinking
EMPATHISE DEFINE IDEATE PROTOTYPE TEST
What is Scaling Down?
Agile Manifesto for Startups
Uncertainty & Ambiguity over ‘Stability’ Mindset
Minimum Viable Product over Working Software
Empathy over Customer Needs
Thank You
vinay@leapinfosys.com
LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/vinayghule
Twitter: @VinayGhule

Scaling (Down!) Agile?

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Bruce Lee’s 76th Birth Anniversary (1940 – 1973) Announce if anyone has birthday today. Wish him/her on this special day. Truly Agile Day – Suggest if this can be celebrated as International Agile Day! Great Personality of this time – Speed, Precision, Flexibility
  • #4 Large Organizations, Process Driven, Hierarchical Roadblock for Agile – Traditional Leadership, Bureaucracy, Silo-ed way of working. Traditionally, Agile has always remained as a team level activity. It never scaled itself. Rather Scaling requires deliberate efforts and it’s always difficult. The Scaling frameworks provided definitive guidance to senior level executives – competitive advantages to large extent. Challenged the status quo – Top Down Approach for such large transformations.
  • #5 Key characteristics: Extremely Agile, Fluid by nature There are no standard norms & procedures Stability is an Alien word Innovation – USP
  • #6 Realization – My Experience of Agile (Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework) So far was not working well Why? Were there any problems with those frameworks? Exploration started. Back to basics.
  • #7 Two dimensional approach.
  • #8 Agile Manifesto
  • #9 Agile Manifesto
  • #10 1990s - Lightweight Software Development methods against Heavyweight, Plan Driven methods 1991 - Rapid Application Development 1994 - Unified Process, DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Methods) 1995 - SCRUM 1996 - Crystal Clear (Alistair Cockburn) and XP (Kent Beck) 1997 - Feature Driven Development (Jeff De Luca) 2001 - Agile Manifesto 2003 - Lean Software Development 2012 - SAFe Agile Software Development Methods - Predominantly addressing s/w development issues Organization Agility - Complex issues - scaling was needed - Lean and Product Development Predictable vs. Efficient
  • #13 Customer vs. User Our Example Empathize with User Emotions, motivations of the User Combine with Practicality/Feasibility Pulse Candy 100 Cr in 8 Months