1. Enterprise Agile

2. Mike Cottmeyer
Enterprise Agile Coach
mike@leadingagile.com
@mcottmeyer
404-312-1471

3. Who’s in the Room?

4. Experience with Agile?

5. Why Are Companies
Interested in Agile?
Exploring the Perceived Benefits of Adopting
an Agile Approach

6. Why Agile? Why Now?

7. Benefits of an Agile
Approach
Faster time to market
Early ROI
Frequent feedback from customers
Building the right product

8. Early risk reduction
Better product quality
Improved culture and morale
More efficient use of people
Customer satisfaction
Alignment between IT and business

9. Allows for emergent outcomes
Better predictability... greater chance of
doing what we say we are going to do

10. What is Agile... Why
Does it Work?
Foundational Stuff You Need to Know

11. Agile is a Family of
Approaches

12. The Principles That Tie It All
Together...

13. Each Have the Same
Fundamental Process Flow...

14. Time, Cost, Scope

15. Backlog Size & Velocity

16. Iterations * Velocity = Scope

17. Agile Teams

18. Why Teams Matter?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
Team Members get to know each other...
how they break down and estimate work
They establish patterns of delivery that
become predictable

19. Agile in the Non-Agile
Enterprise
Running an Agile Project in a Non-Agile
Organization

20. Challenges in Non-
Agile Organizations
Functional Silos
Stage gate governance
Document driven tollgates
Plan driven paradigm

21. Projects are Temporary

22. Spin-up the Team

23. Establish the Backlog

24. Establish Velocity

25. Integrate with Everyone
Else...

26. Multi-Team Agile
Projects
Scrum of Scrums
Product Owner Teams
Release Teams
Integration Teams

27. Agile Value Prop
More Predictable Delivery
Faster Product Feedback
Ability to Respond to Changing Demand
Reduce Delivery Risk
Better Quality Products
Early ROI

28. Keeping the Team Together?

29. What is Enterprise
Agile Anyway?
Doing Agile in a Large Enterprise vs. a Large
Enterprise Doing Agile

30. Same Value... but
Enterprise Level
More Predictable Delivery
Faster Product Feedback
Ability to Respond to Changing Demand
Reduce Delivery Risk
Better Quality Products
Early ROI

31. Scaling the
Agile Metaphor
Smaller Requirements
Continuous Customer Feedback
Early Delivery
Continuous Flow of Value
Rigorous Attention to Product Quality

32. Lean Thinking
Eliminate Waste
Build Quality In
Learn Constantly
Deliver Fast
Engage Everyone
Continuous Improvement

33. Kanban
Visualize the Flow
Limit Work In Process
Manage Flow
Make Process Policies Explicit
Improve Collaboratively

34. Three-Tier Kanban

35. Theory of Constraints
Subordinate the system to the constraint
Exploit the constraint
Elevate the constraint

36. Things to Remember...
Manage the system... not the people
Most folks are doing team or program
based Agile in non-Agile Enterprises
Traditional Orgs will work against agile
Be careful to not just adopt rituals and
words... without getting value

37. Becoming an Agile
Enterprise
Exploring the Differences Between Agile
Adoption and Agile Transformation

38. Agile Adoption and
Transformation Cycle

39. Organizational
Transformation
Aligning organizational structure, process,
technology architecture, and tools toward
creating business value
Forming teams focused on business
outcomes, not activities

40. Adopting Practices
Planning meetings and rituals
Title changes
Changing the words we use
Behavior changes, technical practices

41. Personal
Transformation
Servant leadership
Dealing with uncertainty
Accountability for outcomes, not activities
Trust... collaboration... empowerment

42. Change Management
Act with urgency
Develop a guiding coalition
Develop the change vision
Communicate for buy-in

43. Change Management
Empower broad-based action
Generate short-term wins
Don’t let up
Make change stick

44. Iterative and
Incremental Change
Teams... Multi-Teams... Programs...
Portfolio... Enterprise
Allow imperfection... have a plan to make
things better

45. Let’s Get This Wrapped
Up!
A Few Parting Thoughts and Then Open It Up
for Questions...

46. Conclusion
Agile is not about doing agile... it’s about
delivering better business outcomes
Understanding how and why agile works is a
critical success factor

47. Conclusion
There is a BIG difference between doing
Agile in an Enterprise, vs. doing Enterprise
Agile
Knowing how to interface an agile team with
a traditional organization will get you
started... make things less threatening for
people

48. Conclusion
Agile at scale is about extending core Agile
concepts into every aspect of the business
This kind of Agile requires a significant
transformation event that should be
approached with caution

49. Questions?

50. Mike Cottmeyer
Enterprise Agile Coach
mike@leadingagile.com
@mcottmeyer
404-312-1471