Presentation from First Conference http://www.1stconf.com/
Targeted at Agile"beginners" this talk presented a lightweight set of guidelines for planning and executing an agile transformation.
The guidelines were illustrated with a case study from a recent agile adoption program, and highlighted the process, what worked well, what didn't work at all, and how to recover from set backs.
The presentation covered analysing the problem, change models, how to get started, useful metrics, and tips for stakeholder management.
The case study focussed on presenting real situations, with complex problems.
Understand the audience
What is their background
How many lead teams
Are using some from of Agile/Lean
Already started on the Continuous Delviery journey
questions
My approach to delviering these outcomes is to adopt ideas from the CD handbook.
I’ve been a passionate advocate for these ideas before they were called this, and it’s the reason I’m here today talkig on the topic.
My approach to delviering these outcomes is to adopt ideas from the CD handbook.
I’ve been a passionate advocate for these ideas before they were called this, and it’s the reason I’m here today talkig on the topic.
A lot of change starts “Bottom up” as skunk works. For it to survive and grow past a certain size you MUST have a strong sponsor. You are talking about Organisational change.
Beware the “hygiene” argument
Communicate up, down, sideways.
Manage expectations. Manage perceptions
I’ve seen projects deliver an immense amount of value, but be canned because no-one told the sponsor about the successes
Everyone has an view on agile. 90% of it is wrong.
Agile is disciplined
You’re all birkenstock wearing tree-hugging hippies. That will never work in our corporate environment
Architecture, IT Ops, PMO, CPO etc
IT Ops – Process and Documentation driven. How does ITIL fit with Agile,. I manage my SLAs by restricting changes to production
Architecture- BUFD vs Emergent Design, Fear of loss of control, loss of value,
For these, remove titles and just speak to the picture?
2 a.m. Deployments, Manual Testing, Lost sleepHigh risk, High stress
Unpredictable delivery schedules
High cost of change
High risk around quality of the product
Evolve a clear vision with the team
Brought the Offshore team onshore for 3 months
Build a relationship
Put a face to the name
Focus on team building
Knowledge transfer on processes and tools
PairingIM and Chat groups for the whole team
Webcams, headsets, and Skype video
WebEx
Ability to remote share keyboard/mouse
Agile, Lean & Kanban
It combines my love of Sim City and Code
Feature Tags
Active Code line
Collective Build ownership
Branch by Abstraction