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Shifting The Focus From Frameworks to Outcomes
- 1. Michael S. McCalla Shifting The Focus from Frameworks to Outcomes
- 2. President of Lean Agile Intelligence, an assessment and learning platform that provides guidance to teams and organizations about Agile/Lean practice adoption based on desired business outcomes www.leanagileintelligence.com President of Achieving Agility, an Agile consulting firm that provides coaching, training, and transformation services www.achievingagility.com Board Member of Agile Uprising, a purpose-built network that focuses on the advancement of the agile mindset and global professional networking between leading Agilists. www.agileuprising.com About Me
- 3. Michael S. McCalla Shifting The Focus from Frameworks to Outcomes
- 5. 16 Years Later….. The State of Agile is Sad
- 6. What once was a “movement” to embrace the realities of software development and better the world of work has become….
- 7. A watered-down, abused, commercial buzzword that has lost it’s purity and true intent
- 8. What has led to this sad state? Who is to blame?
- 9. In my opinion, a lot the blame fall on ourselves, the Agile Community
- 10. Framework Wars “Your Framework is Not Agile” “That Framework is Too Prescriptive” “Agile is Dead”
- 11. Agileforall.com
- 12. News Flash! Do You Really Need to be Reminded? All of these frameworks are based off of the same set of principles and values
- 13. Understanding the Connection Source: Ahmed-Sidky SAFe Frameworks
- 14. What Happened to a Common Mission?
- 15. So what does this mean for you? For those looking to utilize Agile in there organization It can’t be good, right?
- 16. “Wrong!” It doesn’t mean a thing”!
- 17. What if I were to ask your CEO
- 18. Would You Like to Use Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe for All Your Agile Needs?
- 19. What Do You Think the Answer is? Would You Like to Use Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe for All Your Agile Needs
- 20. Would You Like to Use Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe for All Your Agile Needs I have no idea what those fancy terms mean kid, nor do I care. Stop wasting my time!
- 21. Would You Like to Use Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe for All Your Agile Needs Whatever Generates the Most Cash Handsome!
- 22. Would You Like to Use Kanban, Scrum, or SAFe for All Your Agile Needs Whatever Generates The Best Business Outcomes!
- 23. Leadership Doesn’t Care About • Time to Market • Customer Satisfaction • Employee Satisfaction • Reliability • Innovation • Responsiveness • Predictability • Scrum • Kanban • SAFe • XP • Lean Startup • Spotify True Story And Therefore Either Should We! Leadership Does Care About This Should Be The Agile’s Community’s Focus And Your Focus!
- 24. They help drive the mindset and discipline needed to achieve Agility. They give organizations who are beginning their Agile journey a structure to self-organize within Frameworks Have Value
- 25. Reason #1: Organization Leadership Does Not Care Don’t Get Hung Up On Frameworks
- 26. Who here has worked in multiple organizations?
- 27. Where they exactly alike? What was different about them?
- 28. There are no two organizations exactly alike Every organization has a unique set of values, objectives, and challenges True Story
- 29. Reason #2: It is Not One Size Fits All! Don’t Get Hung Up On Frameworks You Can’t Just Buy Agile!
- 30. The Agile Manifesto is Beautiful Revolutionary! It Changed the Way we Work! Well Done Authors! Mission Accomplished!
- 31. The world around use continues to change at a faster pace Welcome to the Digital Age! But We Need To Go Even Faster Now!
- 32. Reason #3: We Don’t Have Time! Don’t Get Hung Up on Frameworks
- 33. Reason #4: Don’t Limit Yourself With Such a Narrow Focus How Agile is that….. Don’t Get Hung Up on Frameworks
- 34. But Don’t Let Them Drive Your Outcomes! Frameworks Have Value
- 35. Who Has Ever Heard the Term “Lean Startup?”
- 36. Its Much More Than a Book Its Much More Than a Bible For Startups Lean Startup
- 37. It’s a Methodology Based off of the scientific method Lean Startup
- 38. Lean Startup Approach 1. Start with your desired outcome 2. Form a hypothesis 3. Test the hypothesis with an experiment 4. Measure & Learn 5.Pivot or Persevere
- 39. When to Apply Lean Startup? “Organizations are Complex Adaptive Systems” - David Anderson
- 40. Conclusion: Lean Startup Approach Can Be Applied to Agile and Lean Adoption
- 41. Revisiting: Understanding the Connection Source: Ahmed-Sidky SAFe Frameworks
- 42. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Time to Market Employee Satisfaction Responsiveness Predictability Innovation Reliability Taking it a Step Further
- 43. Example of Applying Lean Startup to Agile Adoption
- 44. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Start with the Desired Business Outcome “Our strategic objectives this year focus on increasing customer satisfaction”
- 45. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Kanban Form a Hypothesis “Given that we are interested in continuous flow to the customer we believe that adopting Kanban will add the most value”
- 46. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Kanban Run the Experiment “We are going to try it with two teams to start”
- 47. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Kanban Measure & Learn “ We have increased our feature cycle time from 8 weeks to 4 weeks, and we have identified areas where we can improve”
- 48. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Kanban Pivot or Persevere “Given our customers are showing increasing satisfaction we are going to continue to use Kanban”
- 49. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Using A Lean Startup Approach To Practice Adoption Kanban Gather Insights Experiment Measure/Learn Start
- 50. Who is Familiar with the Term “Meta?”
- 51. Example: Metadata: Data of Data “Meta” Is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, used to complete or add to the latter
- 52. “Meta-Framework” Is an evolving framework of frameworks or practices within multiple frameworks that help you achieve you desired business outcomes
- 53. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Kanban Measure & Learn “We need a direct point of contact in the business that has domain expertise and can make decisions” “We have increased our feature cycle time from 8 weeks to 4 weeks, and we have identified areas where we can improve”
- 54. Enabling Business Outcomes Customer Satisfaction Scrum Kanban Pivot or Persevere Given our customers are showing increasing satisfaction we are going to continue to use Kanban “We are going to introduce the concept of a Product Owner”
- 55. Wait…. Isn’t that a Scrum Role and we are using Kanban?
- 56. Yes, And……..
- 57. Correct And….
- 58. “Who gives a Sh*t”
- 59. Context is Everything And what matters the most is….
- 61. Practice Catalog
- 62. Practice Catalog
- 63. Meta-Framework @ Team or Organization Level Team: Practices from Different Frameworks Organization: Framework of Frameworks
- 64. True Story: This is what happens today in high performing teams Have you ever met a high performing scrum team that doesn’t use technical practices to build quality in and doesn’t visualize their work on a board? Team Level
- 65. Exactly…
- 66. True Story: This is what happens today in high performing organizations Have you ever met a high performing organization that did not have series of teams utilizing different frameworks? Organization Level
- 67. Exactly…
- 69. Meta- Framework Putting it All Together
- 70. Takeaways 1. Ignore all the childish & petty banter about Agile 2. Frameworks are beneficial but not the be-all/end-all 3. Agile is simply a means to an end, what we care about is business outcomes 4. Use Lean Startup Approach to find what works for you 5. Experiment with different practices across frameworks to create your own Meta-framework