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ADOPTING THE SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE EM CAMPBELL-PRETTY, GM STRATEGIC DELIVERY

@PrettyAgile

www.prettyagile.com

au.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/

ejcampbellpretty@gmail.com

THE EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN

Average delivery cycle time down from 12 month to 3 months

Frequency of delivery increased from quarterly to fortnightly

Cost to deliver down 50%

95% decrease in product defects

100% projects delivered on time and on budget

Happy project sponsors

Happy teams

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AGILE PILOT

5 Wagile Teams

4 Projects

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THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN

• A virtual organization of 5 – 12 teams (50-100 individuals) that plans, commits, and executes together

• Common cadence and normalized story point estimating

• Aligned to a common mission via a single program backlog

• Operates under architectural and UX guidance

• Produces valuable and evaluate-able system-level Potentially Shippable Increments (PSI) every 8-12 weeks

The ART is a long-lived, self-organizing team of agile teams that delivers solutions

Define new functionality

Implement Acceptance

Test Deploy

Repeat until further notice. Project chartering not required.

THE BEST WAY TO START

Train everyone at the same time

Same instructor, same method

Cost effective

Align all teams to common objectives

Commitment

Continue training during planning

Orientation for specialty roles

Open spaces

Tool training for teams

Training:

SAFe

ScrumXP

Release

Planning

Enterprise

Scrum

Master

Quickstart

Enterprise

Product

Owner

Quickstart

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

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You

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Agile,

Now

When you find the first train, go “All In” and “All at Once”

HOW WE

STARTED

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Deployment

Services

Development Services

Pipeline

Services

STRUCTURING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN

EPICS

FEATURES

STORIES

STRUCTURING THE WORK

VISUALISE THE PROGRAM PORTFOLIO

SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER

Source: Agile Portfolio and Program Management in the Scaled Agile Framework, Dean Leffingwell, Agile Melbourne Meetup, 15/02/12

SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER

EPIC OWNER

FEATURE OWNER

PRODUCT OWNER

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OPERATING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN

SCALING THE SPRINT

RELEASE PLANNING

• Two days every 8-12 weeks

• Everyone attends in person if at all possible

• Product Management owns feature priorities

• Development team owns story planning and high-level estimates

• Architects, UX folks work as intermediaries for governance, interfaces and dependencies

• Result: A committed set of program objectives for the next PSI

Cadence-based PSI/Release Planning meetings are the “pacemaker” of the agile enterprise

‘PSI-LITE’ BECOMES UNITY DAY

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THE PROGRAM BOARD

THE FEATURE WALL

CONTINUOUS INTER-TEAM COORDINATION

• Agile team members may visit other team’s…

• Backlog grooming: to see what’s coming next sprint, request adjustments

• Sprint planning: request adjustments

• Daily standups: follow up on execution

• Team Demo: summarize current stage

Agile teams self-manage dependencies and resolve risks

Agile Team 1

Agile Team 2

Dependent

story

Join other

team scrum

ceremony

SCALING COMMUNICATION: THE DAILY COCKTAIL PARTY

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9:00am 9:15am 930am

9:45am

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THE SYSTEM TEAM

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FEATURE TEAMS

SAFE SCRUM / XP

LEAN PRINCIPLES

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Respect for

People

Product

Development

Flow

Kaizen

RESPECT FOR PEOPLE

Net Promoter Score

Source: http://www.netpromotersystem.com/

KAIZEN MINDSET

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Source: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/SpotifyScaling.pdf

THE FOUNDATION IS LEAN LEADERSHIP

A LITTLE TASTE OF OUR CULTURE

http://www.prettyagile.com/2013/05/the-power-of-haka.html

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN?

Check out my blog: www.prettyagile.com

• A Perspective on the Scaled Agile Framework

• What Happens to Project Managers When You Implement SAFe?

• Book Clubs at Work – Are You Serious?

• Bookshelf

• Leading Through Vulnerability

• The "Bubble Up" Approach to Scaling Retrospectives

• The Power of Haka

QUESTIONS?