Starting Agile in a Company
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The document provides tips for organizing teams, projects, and support when adopting Agile in a company. It recommends splitting the organization into cross-functional feature teams and creating a backlog of prioritized product features for each team to work on. Teams should be kept together permanently to become high-performing. Support work should also be planned and prioritized in the backlog instead of handled reactively to reduce fires and bugs. The document stresses starting the transition now with courage and external help if needed.
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Starting Agile in a Company
- 1. Starting Agile in a Company Tips how to organize projects/products portfolio and cross-functional teams Vaidas Adomauskas 2011-10-06
- 4. Agile in organization January April Split your organization Split your product Spilt time Optimize business value Optimize process $ $$$ Create product in increments Henrik Kniberg “ The essence of Agile” AgileEE 2010
- 6. Why teams?
- 7. Which group gets better results?
- 8. Viktorija Truba čiūtė http://www.slideshare.net/AgileLietuva/vieno-pilotinio-projekto-istorija , Lietuvos Agile Diena 2011 Which ones they will be?
- 9. No common purpose… Group of people Common purpose Performing team! A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team
- 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forming-storming-norming-performing Bruce Tuckman model: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H9_AmIgf464/TaJeGbKuyQI/AAAAAAAAARs/H_lLhVAXyeQ/s1600/Tuckmans+model.png It takes TIME to build performing team!
- 11. My team in Adform IMHO: it takes ~2 months to grow to performing team
- 14. Permanent teams are most effective
- 15. Organizing Teams
- 21. Form cross-functional feature teams
- 22. Organizing Work
- 25. What tool to use?
- 26. Follow experiment @adomauskas
- 28. Work for teams (not vise versa!) http://www.solutionsiq.com/Portals/93486/images/many-teams-many-backlogs-one-backlog-agile.png
- 30. Work for teams (not vise versa)
- 33. Which one your company looks more alike to? Planned work Unplanned work
- 42. Prevent the fires!
- 43. Summary
- 45. Courage
- 46. External help
- 47. Start NOW
Editor's Notes
- How long will they work together? Usually… less than a 1 month Usually… analysts at the beginning , testers will join in the end How many projects will they work on? Usually… 2 or more What activities will we take to build a team ? Usually… beers!