The document discusses how business owners can inspire agile teams during an agile transition. It provides examples of how business owners at one company held workshops to establish agreements with developers, committed to being responsive and providing feedback, and saw benefits like increased engagement and happier employees. Great business owners are described as flexible, willing to experiment, able to form trusting relationships, negotiate priorities, support team processes, model courage, provide helpful feedback, and know their business domain while trusting the team.
Agile speaks of putting people first; however in my experience, people are the poor stepchild to process and tools. It’s not about getting scrum teams “more agile” it’s about shaping the organization's culture to support agile development. It’s necessary to understand the areas needed to create a culture that supports agile development. We have to wonder, are we asking ourselves the right questions? How do we engage our staff to create an agile workforce? How do we hire the right people? What is a manager's role in this new self-organized culture? How do we motivate those people? How do we connect them with the customer? It’s about embodying the spirit of agility to get all the magic of a startup and scaling that across a large organization.
In this session, we will talk about building your organization’s culture to support scaling organizational agility to keep the team passionate and purposeful.
Format: Presentation
Target Audience: Agile Coaches, Human Resources, Leaders, and Change Agents
AgileDC 2016 - Transform the Corporate Ecosystem for Enterprise AgilityScott Richardson
You have made great progress at the team level with Agile, but your company still does not feel nimble and responsive. What is wrong, and what can you do about it?
In this talk we show how executives and senior leaders can transform their organization/company to create a truly Agile Enterprise, by transforming corporate functions and enterprise shared services.
The corporate ecosystem outside of teams must be transformed to achieve enterprise agility, but it is beyond the scope/authority of team members, managers, and consultants to make these necessary changes; these transformations can only be done by senior leaders and executives. From an executive's viewpoint we will describe the nature of the corporate ecosystem outside of teams and how - if properly transformed - enterprise services can be the missing link between team-level results and real company-wide agility.
Agile speaks of putting people first; however in my experience, people are the poor stepchild to process and tools. It’s not about getting scrum teams “more agile” it’s about shaping the organization's culture to support agile development. It’s necessary to understand the areas needed to create a culture that supports agile development. We have to wonder, are we asking ourselves the right questions? How do we engage our staff to create an agile workforce? How do we hire the right people? What is a manager's role in this new self-organized culture? How do we motivate those people? How do we connect them with the customer? It’s about embodying the spirit of agility to get all the magic of a startup and scaling that across a large organization.
In this session, we will talk about building your organization’s culture to support scaling organizational agility to keep the team passionate and purposeful.
Format: Presentation
Target Audience: Agile Coaches, Human Resources, Leaders, and Change Agents
AgileDC 2016 - Transform the Corporate Ecosystem for Enterprise AgilityScott Richardson
You have made great progress at the team level with Agile, but your company still does not feel nimble and responsive. What is wrong, and what can you do about it?
In this talk we show how executives and senior leaders can transform their organization/company to create a truly Agile Enterprise, by transforming corporate functions and enterprise shared services.
The corporate ecosystem outside of teams must be transformed to achieve enterprise agility, but it is beyond the scope/authority of team members, managers, and consultants to make these necessary changes; these transformations can only be done by senior leaders and executives. From an executive's viewpoint we will describe the nature of the corporate ecosystem outside of teams and how - if properly transformed - enterprise services can be the missing link between team-level results and real company-wide agility.
In recent years, Agile and Project Management Office (PMO) tend to be associated towards an evolutionary and more flexible project management approach.
Mainly, this refers to the ways the strategic role of PMO is positioned at the corporate level regarding goals achievement.
However, the transition from non-Agile PMO to an Agile one can be costly, risky, time consuming, which requires a lot of effort. In effect, in such transition, the role of the project management office is catalytic.
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight both trends regarding an Agile PMO as well as the challenges required so as the transition to work with the least problems anticipated.
Agile is not only about doing agile work, but also being and act agile.
As more organizations begin to adopt agile on multiple, interdependent teams, how do we ensure that the success within a team can translate to success at the enterprise level?
Presented by: Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed
Roger Garrini
Directing Agile Change
Successful change - good culture and governance matter
APM Governance Specific Interest Group Conference
London, 06 Oct 2016
High Performance Collaboration (HPC) Framework #TogetherStrongerRagavendra Prasath
Bibliography & Courtesy!
1. Book titled ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’ by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan
2. Book titled ‘Powerful - Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility’ by Patty McCord.
3. Book titled ‘Measure What Matters’ by John Doerr
4. Our favorite one The five keys to a successful Google team - https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/
The Agile PMP: What PMPs need to know to compete in today's marketProjectCon
PROJECTCON | AGILECON Midwest 2019 in Indianapolis on May 10, 2019
Presenter: DJ McCord
The Agile PMP: What PMPs need to know to compete in today's market
Agile is not a buzz word. Agile is here to stay. If you organization has not yet adopted Agile in some way, shape, or form, it will soon. In 2018, PMI added Agile to the PMBOK and the PMP exam. This session will discuss why it is critical that PMPs understand what Agile is, how a PMP can improve their marketability, the new Agile content added to the PMBOK, how a PMP can learn the new Agile content included in the PMBOK, and what certifications a PMP can obtain to make them a triple threat in the industry.
Attendees will learn:
An overview of Agile
Why PMPs need to know Agile
Agile additions to the PMBOK 6th Edition
How a PMP can re-up their certification to include Agile
What combination of certifications a PMP should hold to gain a competitive advantage
Event Website: https://projectconevent.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectcon-llc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectConEvent
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/projectconevent
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLLG1SGPs1L5YLoFndvGGhQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectconevent
Presentation Slides: https://slideshare.com/projectcon
Post Event Trailer: https://youtu.be/1_RzFBnZ7bo
ProjectCon AgileCon Project Management
Costs, expenses and complications are the words most often associated with IT on companies. Actually, IT adds a lot of value to the organization. A more organized company becomes more competitive, returning higher profits and getting better structured.
Companies that become agile can introduce products to market more quickly and with a higher level of customer satisfaction. The required changes to obtain all the rewards that being agile bring are hard to reach. It demands a lot not only from developers, but also from the rest of the company.
Agile Training improves your cognizance of scaling and scrum methodology. In these training you can learn
about the agile skills to improve your organization performance.These training give you information on how agileteams estimate, track and plan their work.Visit http://agiletraining.com/
In recent years, Agile and Project Management Office (PMO) tend to be associated towards an evolutionary and more flexible project management approach.
Mainly, this refers to the ways the strategic role of PMO is positioned at the corporate level regarding goals achievement.
However, the transition from non-Agile PMO to an Agile one can be costly, risky, time consuming, which requires a lot of effort. In effect, in such transition, the role of the project management office is catalytic.
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight both trends regarding an Agile PMO as well as the challenges required so as the transition to work with the least problems anticipated.
Agile is not only about doing agile work, but also being and act agile.
As more organizations begin to adopt agile on multiple, interdependent teams, how do we ensure that the success within a team can translate to success at the enterprise level?
Presented by: Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed
Roger Garrini
Directing Agile Change
Successful change - good culture and governance matter
APM Governance Specific Interest Group Conference
London, 06 Oct 2016
High Performance Collaboration (HPC) Framework #TogetherStrongerRagavendra Prasath
Bibliography & Courtesy!
1. Book titled ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’ by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan
2. Book titled ‘Powerful - Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility’ by Patty McCord.
3. Book titled ‘Measure What Matters’ by John Doerr
4. Our favorite one The five keys to a successful Google team - https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/
The Agile PMP: What PMPs need to know to compete in today's marketProjectCon
PROJECTCON | AGILECON Midwest 2019 in Indianapolis on May 10, 2019
Presenter: DJ McCord
The Agile PMP: What PMPs need to know to compete in today's market
Agile is not a buzz word. Agile is here to stay. If you organization has not yet adopted Agile in some way, shape, or form, it will soon. In 2018, PMI added Agile to the PMBOK and the PMP exam. This session will discuss why it is critical that PMPs understand what Agile is, how a PMP can improve their marketability, the new Agile content added to the PMBOK, how a PMP can learn the new Agile content included in the PMBOK, and what certifications a PMP can obtain to make them a triple threat in the industry.
Attendees will learn:
An overview of Agile
Why PMPs need to know Agile
Agile additions to the PMBOK 6th Edition
How a PMP can re-up their certification to include Agile
What combination of certifications a PMP should hold to gain a competitive advantage
Event Website: https://projectconevent.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectcon-llc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ProjectConEvent
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/projectconevent
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLLG1SGPs1L5YLoFndvGGhQ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectconevent
Presentation Slides: https://slideshare.com/projectcon
Post Event Trailer: https://youtu.be/1_RzFBnZ7bo
ProjectCon AgileCon Project Management
Costs, expenses and complications are the words most often associated with IT on companies. Actually, IT adds a lot of value to the organization. A more organized company becomes more competitive, returning higher profits and getting better structured.
Companies that become agile can introduce products to market more quickly and with a higher level of customer satisfaction. The required changes to obtain all the rewards that being agile bring are hard to reach. It demands a lot not only from developers, but also from the rest of the company.
Agile Training improves your cognizance of scaling and scrum methodology. In these training you can learn
about the agile skills to improve your organization performance.These training give you information on how agileteams estimate, track and plan their work.Visit http://agiletraining.com/
Overview and explanation of the 12 Principles contained in the Agile Manifesto.
For more - and a complete implementation of Agile for $1.90 - go to Agile201.com.
As a consultant and an outer employee, other internal employees may create friction because of a way of working differences. To avoid this firstly agile consultant may start as an agile coach in an enterprise. Even if they start as an agile consultant they don’t get bothered by any differences from the team members and provide the specific and accurate set of solutions to issues they are hired for. Agile consultants have a thorough knowledge of applying and executing agile frameworks and streamlining processes.
The Foundations of Business Agility - Shane Hastie - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
In the 21st century, organisations need to put the customer in the centre of our focus, shed outdated ways of thinking, embrace an Agile mindset, incorporate new ways of working and leverage the pace of change for competitive advantage.
About Shane Hastie:
Shane joined ICAgile in 2017 as the Director of Agile Learning Programs. He oversees the strategic direction and expansion of ICAgile’s learning programmes, including maintaining and extending ICAgile’s learning objectives, providing thought leadership and collaborating with industry experts, and supporting the larger ICAgile community which includes more than 90 member organisations and over 60,000 ICAgile certification holders.
Over the last 30+ years, Shane has been a practitioner and leader of developers, testers, trainers, project managers and business analysts, helping teams to deliver results that align with overall business objectives. Before joining ICAgile, he spent 15 years as a professional trainer, coach and consultant specialising in Agile practices, business analysis, project management, requirements, testing and methodologies for SoftEd in Australia, New Zealand and around the world.
He has worked with large and small organisations, from individual teams to large transformations all around the world. He draws on over 30 years of practical experience across all levels of Information Technology and software intensive product development.
Shane is a former director of the Agile Alliance and is the founding Chair of Agile Alliance New Zealand. He leads the Culture and Methods editorial team for InfoQ.com.
Hand out slides to a presentation I have given to the Project Management Institute PMI Quality round table and other groups on Organizational Agility. I discuss Scrum, Lean Startup, Lean Canvas, Minimum Valuable Product MVP, Design Thinking, Agile scale, SAFe, DAD, ASM, LeSS Scaled Agile Scrum, DevOps, TDD, ATDD
To book a guest lecture or Agile Coaching services, see my presentation for contact information. I am based in New York and am available to travel to your location.
Know about the Lean common mistakes for a cultural change, and the Toyota Way model for the Lean Transformation, see a case example and some systems explanations.
What Is The Process Of Becoming A Professional Agile Coach?Advance Agility
An agile coach is a member of project management whose role is to motivate individuals, groups and teams of an organization to adopt agile values and 12 principles of agile methodology. Basically, a majority of agile coaches come from a background of IT, project management, product management and software development.
How many law firms can you say have displayed lean or agile principles?
What would you say if you saw Lean principles and Agile values being displayed at your lawyers office - with stickies on the wall and teams of lawyers, legal secretaries, and senior partners all around a whiteboard "storming" on a case to help them win?
Well this is my reality. Having left a large company doing Scrum across their 10 software teams building insurance software and moving to a small law firm of about 10, this is becoming a reality and way of working for us.
Use of Lean and Agile principles outside of software development is happening in all sorts of areas - and I am actively trying to bring the legal practice into the 21st Century! Terms like collaborative, cross functional, transparency, maximizing flow are not terms you generally hear in a law firm, but that is all changing with law firms also needing to become more innovative and leading edge when it comes to reducing clients costs, delivering what the client wants, and understanding their clients needs clearly and effectively.
Scrum Deutschland 2018 - Wolfgang Hilpert - Are you agile enough to succeed w...Wolfgang Hilpert
How do digital innovation and the adoption of Agile methods within the enterprise fit together?
What prerequisites are needed to achieve Business Agility?
What influence does the leadership culture have on the success of the Agile transformation?
What features of a modern leadership role are needed to win in the age of digitization and agility? What does „Leadership Agility“ mean and why is this a critical success factor for the transformation?
What do typical hurdles of an Agile transformation look like?
How can we measure the success of the transformation?
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
Seven ways business owners inspire agile teams
1. Seven Ways Business Owners Inspire Agile Teams
Software leaders led a quest to discover alternatives to heavy documentation, top down control, and excessive process software development method. They founded agilemanifesto.org.
“A set of values based on trust and respect for each other and promoting organizational models based on people, collaboration, and building the types of organizational communities in which we would want to work”
- Jim Highsmith
2. Business Owner’s WILL influence your agile transition…
Make them transition partners!
“Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.”
agilemanifesto.org.
3. An Agile Transition Story….
Escape from waterfall!
Spent a week with business owners and technology leads
Goals:
1.Begin with a rank order epic backlog
2.Engagement agreement:
Trust each other to do their best work
Developers commit to show working software every 2 weeks and improve process to release every 1-2 months
Business commits to respect Team’s internal processes, respond to clarifications in 24 hours, and give constructive feedback
Held offsite with business and technology managers
Goals:
1.Understand teams will work different from waterfall SDLC teams
2.Convince technology and business managers to think different to work different
Embrace values, principles of agilemanifesto.org
Change manager role to servant leader
Commit to improve org processes
Be agility advocates across enterprise
4. Results - High Engagement, Happier People
Happier Business Partners
•Business Owners saw progress far in advance of releasing to Operations for the first time
•Business Owners gave constructive feedback and ideas to add to the future backlog
Happier Support and Management Teams
•Everyone was invited, no matter their location
•Help Desk, release support teams learned what was coming in next release
•Cross-functional Managers witnessed happier teams
Happier Agile Teams
•Earned a reputation for making working software transparent
•Released more frequently to align with customer facing Business Operations Teams
•Open, direct communication with Business Owners, not only customer proxy resolved potential impediments early and often
•Regular retrospectives gave members insight to improvement needs, and whether they could resolve or to escalate to management
5. Benefits
•Team members need transparency with Business Owners to sustain trusting relationships between business and technology, and a sense of team pride
•A customer proxy cannot keep up with the pace of an Agile team, and becomes a bottleneck slowing developers
•Developers are inspired to do more when appreciated honestly, first hand, by their Business partners
•Developers love to see their work go into production and know exactly how business and customers benefited
Everyone Shares Credit for Failure or Success
•Business Owners set goals and outcomes to grow business and delight customers
•A business proxy role is a team member, shares future end state, owns the backlog, priorities, and calculates return on investment
•The Development Team solves the problems, builds working products, and delivers as promised, often under the strain of organization impediments left over by waterfall legacy processes
Business Owner Collaboration with Agile Teams
Organization Challenges
•Functional, or General Manager coaching required
•Annual performance plans change to include teamwork goals
•Annual funding models change to quarterly
•Annual roadmap planning change to quarterly
•Portfolio change management at epic level assuring investments, team capacity, and teams have everything needed to deliver
6. •Team’s direct communication with a business owner can be scary to a traditional business proxy
•Egos feel threatened as a need to control, turns into a sense of lost control
•A need to feel exalted as a knowledge tower gets knocked down as learning to share credit for making thing happen changes
•A need to appear as “the one lone ranger,” “the hero,” the “greatest Product Manager in the world” who makes everything happen disappears
With time, negative feelings will go away as members grow into their new role.
Coaching likely required.
Challenges to Traditional Proxy Roles
(Product Manager, Business Analyst, Project Manager)
7. With Business Agile Training
•Able to keep up with feedback demands
•Accelerates decision turn around
•Enables frequent delivery
•Enjoy quicker investment returns
•Higher quality products, less technical debt
•Higher engagement, happier employees
Without Business Agile Training
•Impedes rate of delivery
•Full benefits of agility unrealized
•Slower investment returns
•Poor quality due to last minute decisions
•Higher technical debt from taking shortcuts
•Missed window of opportunities
Benefits of Engaging Business Partners in an Agile Transition
Seven Ways Business Owners Inspire Agile Teams
8. Business Owners
1.Are flexible, willing to experiment, take risk, and learn from mistakes, never blaming others for failure.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistrydemonstrations/a/sodium-in-water-demonstration.htm
9. Business Owners 2. Form and sustain trusting relationships easily They have a high emotional quotient (EQ), are self aware, are able to self regulate emotions, have empathy, motivate people, and have passion for their business
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistrydemonstrations/a/sodium-in-water-demonstration.htm
10. Business Owners 3. Negotiate and compromise with a focus on
•What’s important today?
•Understanding near term goals, while aligning with strategic business vision.
•Killing pet projects with low or no value.
•Setting clear priorities that free the team to focus on how to deliver value rapidly!
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11. Waterfall verses Agile
Waterfall SDLC
•Predictive model
•Problem / Solution Known
•Fixed budget, scope, and time
•Delivery not value based
•Learn late, large changes late
Agile SDLC
•Empirical model
•Problem known / solution unknown
•Fixed budget, scope changes with time/ capacity
•Delivery based on value
•Learn early, small changes just in time
A good Business Owner knows their business needs
A great Business Owner evaluates what is most valuable to business, and does not waste capital on features customers will not use!
12. Business Owners 4. Support their team’s internal processes.
Great Business Owners have patience, give team time to discover solutions to complex problems that produce the best outcomes,
now and for the future
13. Great Business Owners
•Know team’s rhythm moves faster than waterfall, and quick incremental decisions
•Commits to respond to questions quickly
•Shows interest, fosters understanding
•Understands ‘just enough’ requirements need to be ready for next software review
•Respects change limits within an iteration
•Openly negotiates tradeoffs
•Does not push team to do more than reasonable or abuse team’s enthusiasm to please, because TRUST is the foundation of their relationship
•Coaches stakeholders when greed or lack of reason imposes threats to the team’s capacity
14. Business Owners understand… Team’s speed comes as flow happens down stream, team normalizes working together, and rate of delivery fluctuates as various factors impact them. Speed, or velocity, picks up after a few iterations, and optimizes if factors remain stable.
15. Great Business Owners
Are advocates for the team – they ask how can I help?
A great Business Owner collaborates with other stakeholders to help remove large organization barriers.
16. Great Business Owners…
5. Model courage and integrity in service to others
•Business Owners do what’s right
•Face conflict in service to others
•Strive to change fixed minds
17. Great Business Owners… 6. Engage in software reviews, give helpful feedback, and express appreciation for the Team’s accomplishments.
•Even when reviews do not go as expected
•Hold other stakeholders accountable to deliver
•While displaying compassion and empathy
7.Know business operations
•Are confident about their domain.
•Trust the team to know how and when to deliver
•Set business goals with outcomes for realistic delivery.
18. Great Business Owners Know How to Inspire Agile Teams!
1.Are flexible, willing to experiment, take risk, and learn from mistakes – do not blame others
2.Forms and sustains trust easily, has high EQ
3.Negotiates tradeoffs when requirements change
4.Supports team’s internal processes and advocates removal of organization impediments
5.Models courage and integrity in service to others
6.Engages in software reviews, gives helpful feedback, and shows appreciation
7.Know their business, and trusts their Team to know how and when to deliver based on realistic business goals
Do you know a great Business Owner inspiring Agile Teams? Express appreciation, because he or she is awesome!
19. a successful agile transition story Maryann Snider Principle Project Manager, CSM, CSPO, Agile Coach