Learn from Veracity's resident Agile expert on how to enable distributed teams, ease knowledge share and measure the value delivered by your Agile platform and culture.

1. Veracity Solutions
Tooling Agile
Damian Dingley, Organizational Agility
January 14th 2021

2. 2
Quantros (Healthcare)
Omnicell (Healthcare)
YBA (eCommerce)
EDAX (Scientific)
TopVue (Defense)
Over the past 10 years I’ve worked with multiple
organizations, big and small, aligning on product
vision, evolving Agile practices and helping them
change their business and operational culture.
Extra curricula activity: Skiing, musician, road biking,
remodeling and dealing with teenage sons
Organizational Agility
Practice Lead
Veracity Solutions
Background
Damian Dingley
Organizational Agility Practice Lead
Veracity Solutions
Lumeris (Healthcare)
Sampling of organizations and relative size-
Resmark (Outdoors Adventure)

3. HOW MUCH IS OUT THERE?
There are literally hundreds of Agile and Agile-related tools available to us today!
• Backlog organization
• Product planning
• Collaboration
• Knowledge distribution
• Communication
• CI/CD and Devops
• Enterprise management
• Team performance

4. 4
GoTo’s
Everyday essentials and
must-haves
Distributed Teams
Communication and virtual
office space
Knowledge Share
Team and organizational
well being
Value
Measuring the value delivered
by an Agile platform and culture
CATEGORIES
Tools & Applications To Support An Agile Culture
Planning
High-level visioning,
roadmapping and oversight
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5. 1 2 3
Core
Reliability,
established
protocols,
voice, messaging,
mobile enabled
Should Have
Channels, groups,
storage, calendars,
meetings
Nice To Have
Visualized
spaces,
Work areas,
Collaborative
tools
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
Communication & Virtual Office
Characteristics

6. 1
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
Communication & Virtual Office
The Must Haves
• Phone
• Skype
• Zoom
• MS Teams
• Slack

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DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
Communication & Virtual Office
Virtual Office
• Google Docs
• DropBox
• Sococo
• Miro

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DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
Communication & Virtual Office
Virtual Office
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A virtual representation of
a physical collaborative
workspace.
Imagine integrating Slack
or MS Teams with Zoom
and “Find My iPhone”

9. DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
Communication & Virtual Office
Virtual Office
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An infinite realtime
canvas with a vast
array of template drop-
ins for planning,
brainstorming, risk
analysis, scrum,
kanban….

10. 1 2 3
Core
Accessibility,
Ease of Use
Should Have
Graphics,
Integrations
Searchable
Nice To Have
Proactive,
Cultivates Growth
KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Experience, Decisions, Skills, Know-how
Characteristics

11. KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Experience, Decisions, Skills, Know-how
• Nuclino (Wiki)
• Azure Devops (Ecosystem)
• Atlassian Confluence (Wiki)
• Lucid Chart, Gliffy, Visio (Diagramming)
• Tekata (Team Skills & Growth)

12. KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Experience, Decisions, Skills, Know-how
Surface your dev-team’s
skillset and specializations.
Help grow T-shaped team
members. Helps with team
makeup and project
assignment

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Core
Identify desired
outcomes,
integrations
Should Have
APIs,
visualizations,
dashboards,
customizations
Nice To Have
Smarts,
Predictors
MEASURING VALUE
Delivery, Process Improvement
Characteristics

14. MEASURING VALUE
Delivery, Process Improvement
DevOps
Accelerate: Forsgren, Humble, Kim

15. MEASURING VALUE
Getting To The Data!
Our challenge is to be able to tap
into all our development, CI/CD and
Product Management tools and pull
in the appropriate parameters and
make sense of them all!

16. MEASURING VALUE
Delivery, Process Improvement
• DevOps Insights
• Hygieia (open source)
• Tasktop /Flow Framework
Hygieia dashboard for a CI/CD tool chain

17. MEASURING VALUE
Delivery, Process Improvement
Built on the Flow Framework
Dr Mik Kersten -Project to Product
Surfaces bottlenecks across the
business enterprise. Identifies
source of truth and injects measures
into the enterprise value streams.

18. 18
GoTo’s
Everyday essentials and
must-haves
Distributed Teams
Communication and virtual
office space
Knowledge Share
Team and organizational
well being
Value
Measuring the value delivered
by an Agile platform and culture
SUMMARY
Tools & Applications To Support An Agile Culture
Planning
High-level visioning,
roadmapping and oversight

19. Q&A
Tooling Agile
Damian Dingley, Organizational Agility Practice Lead
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