A Game of Thrones

SARAJEVO, 27.10.2014

RAINER GRAU

A Game of Thrones…or: is the agile winter coming?

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A Game of Thrones…is the agile winter coming?

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When the methodology game plays…

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Source: http://scrumorakel.de/blog/index.php?/archives/45-A-critical-view-on-SAFe.html

Source: http://www.hackerchick.com/2012/01/kanban-is-the-new-scrum.html/

Source: http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/right-way-do-scrum/

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Wars about methodologies are dead end roads

If you encounter methodology fights…

• Check the source carefully

• Prove if somebody wants to create a hype

• Mark it as the wrong messages and react

Typically that fighting helps selling something like

• 15.3 kg agility, free shipping included…

• We make dummies lean in 7 days…


The seven kingdoms fight against each other instead against the foe

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What’s it all about ?!


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Become a Warden of The Realm

So…

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AgilityBlack

Brother

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Care for core values and principles


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Take an economic view

• Create more customer value with less resources, i.e. avoid waste

• Do not make your customer wait

• The Fast is the new Big

• Establish the ability to move and change the organization quickly and effectively while in control of risks


Think as the Master of Coin

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Optimize the whole

• Focus, focus, focus …and once again: focus !!

• Local optimization creates a sub-optimal system

• Continuously adapt and improve

• Experiment (as well with methods & techniques)

• Balance standardization versus diversity– Standardization: the most successful way to improve productivity

– Diversity: the most important factor beside slack time to foster an innovative mindset


Act as Grand Maester and Warden of the Realm

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Be a hunter and farmer


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Copy / paste … and adapt


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My favorite copy and paste resources *

• Queuing Theory

• Cadence and Synchronization

• Decentralized Control

• Complex Systems Theory

• Management 3.0 and Leadership

• Beyond Budgeting Principles

• User Experience

• Analytics


Share knowledge, meet peers, read books and blogs

* To get my concrete favorite copy/paste resources: write an email to [email protected] with subject “copy/paste resources”

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mailto:[email protected]

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Experiment

• Experimenting is nothing evil, it is NOT try and error

• Experiment while creating customer value

• Learn what to use, when and how – dance with the system*

• Learn about the system and the options of control

• Share your experience in a neutral and positive way

The method and technique never is the fault, The combination of method and context determines success or failure


Every single method, technique has its context of success

* from Jurgen Appelo: Management 3.0, ISBN-13: 978-0321712479

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Rich and thriving kingdoms*…


Dean Leffingwell

Ken Schwaber (scrum.org)

Craig Larman , Bas Vodde

Scott Ambler

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* in respect of knowledge, wisdom and experience…

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Agility Path

Creator: Ken Schwaber, Scrum.org


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Core elements of Agility Path

• Start where your are and establish a continuous improvement process

• Address leadership and change management

• Assess the agile capabilities of the organization

• Measure improvement regularly


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Regularly asses the organizational “Agility Index”


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Large Enterprise Scaled Scrum (LESS)Authors: Craig Larman, Bas Vodde


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Core elements of LESS

• Foundation: the Lean Thinking House

• Build upon a pyramid of values, principles and good practices

• Establish feature teams

• Establish communities of practice

• Identify requirements areas

• Build organization around teams

• Collect good practices from many sources


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The Lean Thinking House

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Build communities of practice (CoP)

Virtual team with common interest– A technology, discipline, functional aspect– Requirements engineering, testing, architecture, Java, automation, Ux, …

• Informal approach to functional learning

• Avoids matrix organizations

• Self-organized and no line management (CoP coordinator principle)

Very close to Jurgen Appelo’s ideas of guildes

• See – http://de.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/business-guilds– http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3361949-business-guilds


http://de.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/business-guilds

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3361949-business-guilds

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Core elements of SAFe

• Portfolio level elements– Budgeting of programs based on business themes and epics– Kanban process using business und architectural epics

• Program level elements– Prioritization using features within a program backlog– Dependency of teams is explicitly managed – Elaborated Scrum of Scrum ceremonies– Release-train as time-box on program

• Team level elements– A SAFe ScrumXP variant of Scrum– With many good practices pointed at


Differentiating three the levels: portfolio, program, team

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Core elements of DAD

• Lean SW development following ideas of Poppendieck and Reinertsen

• Architecture based: Enterprise architecture is first class citizen

• Explicitly addresses DevOps challenge

• People based: life long learning and continuous improvement

• Agile modeling based on UML

• Surrounding life cycle model with phases

• Solution based: deliver value in form of customer solutions

• Hybrid of Scrum and XP


see http://disciplinedagiledelivery.wordpress.com/introduction-to-dad/

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http://disciplinedagiledelivery.wordpress.com/introduction-to-dad/

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Iteration Layer Concept

Micro-Increment

Copyright: 2012 Scott Ambler & Associates

Iteration Lifecycle

Project Lifecycle

IterationShippable

Build

Project Plan

Iteration Plan

Work Item Days

Weeks

Months

Personal Focus

Team Focus

Stakeholder FocusInception Elaboration Construction Transition

Value

Risk

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So walking through the Realm…

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What I like took with me walking The RealmAgility Path LESS SAFe DAD+ Start where you are+ Continuous

improvement+ Measure capabilities+ Address Change+ Foster Transparency+ Improve the whole

Suitable for organizations with sound agile mindset

Applicable in non-SW domains

+ Clear scaling structure

+ Requirement areas as knowledge areas for teams

+ Build communities of practices (guilds)

+ Collect and build up good practices

Suitable for organizations with sound agile mindset

+ Rich blueprint with good guidance

+ Reuses common accepted and known concepts like Scrum & Kanban

+ Those guys are hunter and farmer

rich blueprint (if used as such)

Suitable for agile starters who require more guidance

+ Inspect & adapt+ Based on good SWE

practices+ Enterprise aware+ Architecture aware+ DevOps aware+ People aware

Valuable for organization with RUP history

Scalable for small and large organizations


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But even more important

Optimize the whole

• What about a combination of elements in all these approaches…

• Classical methods and techniques are not per-se evil !!

• Methods an techniques are neutral – such as a knife

• Kanban against Scrum is like Lannisters against Starks

• Be a warden of the agility realm

Playing the Game of Thrones ends as…

The Realm loses while The Others are the foe

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So hey, agile community: Please do NOT play the…

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Thank You

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