What and What Not, Portfolio Lead Retrospects (In Enterprise Agile context)
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What and What not
A Portfolio Lead Retrospects
Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah Tata Consultancy Services
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Yashasree Barve, CSM, CSP
Scrum Gathering India 2014
Diversity & Women’s Network @ TCS
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Dipen Shah
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Who’s in the room?
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2. Agile Coach or
Consultants
1. Scrum Master,
Team Member, or
Product Owner
3. Program,
Portfolio Lead, or
Manager?
4. None of these
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What is a Project?
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2. Project is what our
business sponsors tell
us to do.
1. It’s a temporary
group activity
designed to produce a
unique product,
service or result.
3. Something that we
do every day as part of
software development
4. None of these
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What is a Portfolio?
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2. Something that
Photographers click for
aspiring models
1. A collection of
investments held by an
investment company,
hedge fund, financial
institution or individual.
3. A collection of
programs, projects and/or
operations may not be
interdependent managed
as a group.
4. None of these
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Context Setting
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Project
• Agile/Scrum for 7 years
• ~30 parallel scrum projects
• ~200 team members in all
• 6 program groups
• Flat reporting structure
• 3 Delivery owners
• Open source + Enterprisy
• Data intensive apps
• Wide technology footprint
Quick Facts
Portfolio
Program
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0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Team2
Team1
Team3
Team23 Team22
Team21
Team20
Team19
Team18
Team30
Team29 Team28
Team27
Team26
Team25
Team24
Team35 Team34
Team33
Team32
Team31
Duration (months) Unit of measurement
Priority Unit of measurement
Team17
Team16
Team15
Team14
Team13
Team12
Team11 Team10
Team9
Team8
Team7
Team6 Team5
Team4
Program 6
Program 5 Program 3
Program 4 Program 2
Program 1
Our Portfolio!
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Stressed out!
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Time for a Retrospective!
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What is the Career path defined by Scrum?
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2. Developer >>
Product Owner
1. Developer >>
Scrum Master
3. Developer >>
Project Manager
4. None of these
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People Problems
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Cope up with Emergent
Design
Adopt Engineering
practices, be a craftsman
Feeling stagnant,
not growing
Individual Performance
over Team Performance
Cope up with Emergent
Design
No defined Career Path
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Managing Career Path
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Understand individual
aspirations
Set expectations For
Project and Role
Deep involvement with teams
Separate Role from
Designation
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Share & Learn
• Put training plan
• Assign mentees
• Create forums to learn and share
Architectural Thinking
• Explain Big picture
• Design Discussions
• Architecture CoE
• Portfolio level weekly scrum of scrums for tech leads
Fuel Innovation
• Portfolio Visioning
• PoCs with new technology
• Continuous Improvement
• Business value addition
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Defining Career Path
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What is the appraisal process prescribed by Scrum?
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2. Scrum prescribes
Bell Curve
1. Scrum prescribes
evaluating team and
not individuals
3. None of these
4. Scrum does not
define any appraisal
process
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Add Scrum-y performance goals
Team Behavior, Building
trust, transparency
Sharing, Learning
Mentoring, Pairing up
Improve the process
through retrospectives
New ideas, Technology /
Business value additions
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How do Stakeholders decide the project priorities?
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2. Why worry about
the stakeholder
priorities?
1. All stakeholders
know each other
very well and think
alike.
3. None of these
4. Each stakeholders
may have their own
priorities and product
vision.
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Stakeholder Management Challenges
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Multiple Sponsors
Different roadmaps & Priorities
Varied interaction styles with team
Inconsistency of approach
Product quality not similar
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Roadmap Discussions
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Be open and Transparent
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Elephants and cheetahs in the room
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Organizational Rhythm
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Project Mapping
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1
2
3
4
5Complexity
Sponsor Grade
Duration
CostTeam maturity
(reverse)
Business Value
Impact of failure
Sample Project
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What Application Support Groups feel about Agile?
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2. OMG! 1. Wow!
3. Frustrated 4. I don’t care
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The Support Hangover…
Less Documentation
Churn in the team
Not able to cope up!
Frequent Releases
Production Issues
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Define what’s “Just Enough”
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DEEP Product Backlog
Definition of Done
Architecture Diagram
Security Review Document
Major Design Decisions
Automated Tests
User Manual
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Support onboarding
process
Bi-weekly calls to sync up
Add support stories to backlog
Give support Access to Product Backlog
Pair up Dev and Support
teams
Bust troublesome
tickets through Do It Yourself
screens
Supporting the Support!
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1 Pay attention to Career Growth in terms of responsibilities
2 Ensure scrum-y goals enter appraisal process
3 Transparent and constant connection with stakeholders
4 Projects’ Rhythm and Mapping helps appropriate oversight
5 Define Just Enough Documentation and help support group
Panch-Mantras for a Happy agile Portfolio Leadership
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Happy to take Questions
Hope This Session Helps!
Thank you
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