1. - An Anatomy and Solution*
Shaik Mohammed
shaikms@yahoo.com

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3. YMMV
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4. • Context
• Scope of the discussion
• Anatomy of IT Agility
• Scrum as an Agility Enabler
• Assumptions
• Keep in mind the subjective nature of the
discussion
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5. • Tangible
• Agility big picture
• Scrum as an Agility Enabler
- Adoption Approach
• What does Agility means to your specific role?
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6. • Dictionary Definition
• Big Picture
• Business Current Scenario
• Business Agility
• IT as an organization
• What is Agility ?
• What do we need to achieve this ?
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7. • Solution
• Agile Manifesto as a Guiding Philosophy
• Scrum as a Framework
• Key Roles Agility
• Conclusion - Putting Them All Together
• Caution – Agility Balance
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8. General
Ability to change the body's position efficiently, and
requires the integration of isolated movement skills
using a combination of balance, coordination, speed,
reflexes, strength, endurance and stamina.
Business
Capability of rapidly and efficiently adapting to
changes.
Sports
A rapid whole body movement with change of
velocity or direction in response to a stimulus.
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9. • Harshest Economy
• Establish and sustain competitive position
• Product/Service introductions
• Innovation
• First to Market
• Regulations
• Legal
• Technology Challenges
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10. Business agility is the ability of an
organization to respond quickly to
unforeseen change and possibly
radical change in the organization’s
operating environment.
Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time in a Right Way
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11. • Responsiveness
• Requirements Uncertainties
• Requirements Changes
• Technology Challenges
• Customer Quality Expectations
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12. • Agility Enabler
• Culture
• Engineering
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13. • Respond to changing requirements in a robust
and timely manner
• Improve the design and architecture
• Give Customers exactly what they want
• Do all this without burning out
*One of the many
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14. Scrum is a simple approach to the management of
complex problems, providing a framework to support
innovation and allow self-organizing teams to deliver high
quality results in short time-frames.
Scrum is a state of mind; it is a way of thinking that
unleashes the creative spirit while remaining firmly
grounded in some solid and long-respected principles.
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15. Principle/Value  Practice  Agility
[Agile Principles/Values] [Scrum]
+ +
[ Scrum Essence ] [Role]
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16. Agile Principles/Values
+
Empiricism
Emergence
Prioritization
Self Organization
Time Boxing
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17. • Less Process, Tools and Measurements
• Collaboration
• Continuous Deliveries
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18. • Welcome Change
• Customer Satisfaction
• Team Self Organization & Empowerment
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19. • Communication
• Focus on Technical Excellency
• Simplicity
• Empirical Learning
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20. Refers to the continuous inspect/adapt process
that allows to make decisions in real time, based
on actual data, and as a result respond quickly to
ever-changing conditions.
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21. Results from empirical approach. Solutions to
problems will become clear as we work. When we
allow solutions to emerge it is always the simplest
and the most appropriate solution for the current
context that rises to the surface.
Emergence coupled with Empiricism will lead to the
most appropriate and the most flexible solution.
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22. Simple mechanism for handling complexity.
We can't figure out the whole system at this time,
so let's take one small problem and in a short
space of time, figure out how to solve that
problem.
The results of that will then guide us towards a
solution for the next, bigger problem and give us
insight into the needs of the system as a whole.
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23. Small multidisciplinary teams are empowered to
make the important decisions necessary to
Create high quality product
and
Manage their own processes
These teams work in a highly interactive and
generative way, emerging the product through
continuous dialog, exploration and iteration.
Self-organization works when there are clear goals
and clear boundaries.
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24. Simply means that some things are more important
than others.
Scrum helps to keep the focus back on most
important things to do first.
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25. • Amplifying Learning
• Embracing Failure
• Performance Coaching
• Foster Innovation
• Trust & Openness
• Empowerment
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26. Made
Additions or Modifications Easy
Made
Testing of above Quick
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27. Agility
Steady State
Responsiveness
Change
High
Performance
Teams
Business Value
Uncertainty
Innovation
Technology
Challenges
Less Process
[Pain]
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28. Responsiveness/Robustness
ratio for your Agility
Responsiveness Robustness
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29. You
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