Enterprise Lean Agile Adoption Challenges (2018 edition)

1. fabioarmani

2. How’d we do it? Challenges & Opportunities facing
Agile Adoption/Transition
in the Enterprise

4. my first XP Conference

5. Agile Coaching

7. organizations

8. small large
<50 >5000

10. teams

12. people

14. Scrum
eXtreme
Programming
Crystal
Clear
Feature Driven
Development
DSDM
AgileUP
Lean
Development
Kanban

15. Scrum
eXtreme
Programming
Lean Change
Management
Agile UX
Lean Startup
Lean UX
Lean
Development
HSD
Management 3.0
LeSS
Nexus
Design Thinking

17. 2000

18. 2018

19. 3 Purposes
Enterprise Agile Adoption

20. Social
Technical Environment

21. SOCIAL
Purposes: enterprise agile adoption

23. Social
• Politics
• Interactions
• Patterns
• Formal & informal information flow

24. TECHNICAL
Purposes: enterprise agile adoption

26. Technical
• Infrastructure
• Operations
• Product & project development
• Operational systems
• Physical plant

27. ENVIRONMENTAL
Purposes: enterprise agile adoption

29. Environmental
• Marketplace
• Customers
• Geography
• Regulatory
• Community
• Suppliers

30. 3 Conditions
Enterprise Agile Adoption

31. Strategy
Structure Culture

32. STRATEGY
Conditions: enterprise agile adoption

34. Strategy
• Where we want to go
• Why we want to change

35. STRUCTURE
Conditions: enterprise agile adoption

37. Structure
• How we organize ourselves

38. Structure
• How we organize ourselves

39. Structure
• How we organize ourselves

40. CULTURE
Conditions: enterprise agile adoption

42. Culture
• Beliefs
• Underlying assumptions
• Values

43. Process
Enterprise Agile Adoption

45. Agile Ecosystem

46. Visioning Approval Staffing Development Deployment
Supp &
Feedback

47. Visioning Approval Staffing Development Deployment
Supp &
Feedback
Agile / Scrum
Lean Agile

48. Portfolio layer
Value Stream layer
Program layer
Team/Project layer
Visioning Approval Staffing Development Deployment
Supp &
Feedback
Agile / Scrum
Lean Agile
1-2 year

49. 1-2 year
Portfolio layer
Value Stream layer
Program layer
Team layer
Visioning Approval Staffing Development Deployment
Supp &
Feedback
Agile / Scrum
Lean Agile
Scaled Lean Agile

50. Agile Enterprise
BUSINESS AGILITY

51. AGILE ENTERPRISE
SCALED LEAN AGILE
LEAN AGILE
AGILE/SCRUM
Projects
• Selection
• Preparation
• Execution
• Maintenance
BUSINESS AGILITY Context
Agile fitting with
organizational
environment
Mindset
• Doing Agile
• Being Agile
People
• Selection
• Training
• Engagement
• Growing
Communities
(org)
Which one, How
• CoP
• Guildes
• Chapters
Technical Excellence
• Clean Coding
• SW Craftmanship
• Collaboration tool
• Cloud
• DevOps
Communication
Effective
Transparent
Face2Face
Evolution
Metrics
and scaling
models

53. Lean Agile Roadmap
Pilot Projects Acceptation
Cultural
clashes
Local
changes Formalization Rollout
Global
Changes

54. Investigation
Rollout and Reporting
Evangelism

55. Launched organizational change
program

56. Created a dedicated, cross-functional
rollout teams (ETC, LCC, …)

57. Positioned as a return to our core
values
Positioned as a return to our Core Values

59. Challenges
• Management
• Business
• Cultural Clashes
• Legacy Code – technical debt
• Technology KH
• Hybrid Methodologies
• User Experience
• Marketing – demand
• Complex Team Interdependencies
• Portfolio Management
• …

60. Firefighting culture

61. Command and Control

62. Blaming culture

63. Lack of Leadership

64. Lack of Management

65. Waste

67. Results
• ETCs
• Improvement Communities (ICs)
• Lean Change Communities (LCCs)
• CoPs, Chapters & Guilds
• Lean Agile Tuscany – Lean Agile Calabria – XPUG-Roma
• Learning organization : AgileUX, PO Camp…
• Feature & Component teams (ScrumXP – Value Team –
DevOps)
• Line Product teams (Kanban – Lean Dev…)
• Lean Agile Maturity Model

68. Results
• Agile Architecture
• Inter-team, coordination
• Lean Agile Portfolio
• Scaling: DAD, LeSS, Nexus, SAFe, Scrum@Scale…
• A3 Thinking, Kaizen, Lean Kata…
• Lean Agile Programs
• Value Driven Delivery
• Value Streams è Value Teams
• Systemic 360° Experiments
• Chaordic Systems

69. Real World

70. Real World
EXPERIENCES

71. THE REAL WORLD DOESN’T REWARD PERFECTIONISTS.
IT REWARD PEOPLE WHO GET THINGS DONE.
EXPERIENCES

73. Value Team
• The concept of Value team is an mashup of
two concepts:
– Discovery Track
– Extended Team (see Lean UX)
– Value Stream Map
this is only an
example taken
from many
experiences

78. ChangeUp CoP

79. A BetterWay CoP

80. Avalon Program

81. Agile Portfolio Room

83. Business Agility

84. Business Agility
sense respond
Business
Agility
adapt

85. Business Agility
sense respond
Business
Agility
adapt
• Listen to trends
• Innovation at the Edges
• Track Leading Indicators
• Predictive Analytics
• Rapid Prototyping
• Decentralized decision
making
• Assess results and modify
experiments
• Reconfigure Operations
• Scale or shrink on
demand
• Continuous
Improvement
• Ability to Experiment
• Speed to market
• Scale rapidly
• Decisions based on
Insights
• Ability to reconfigure
operations quickly

86. Business Agility
sense respond
Business
Agility
adapt
• Listen to trends
• Innovation at the Edges
• Track Leading Indicators
• Predictive Analytics
• Rapid Prototyping
• Decentralized decision
making
• Assess results and modify
experiments
• Reconfigure Operations
• Scale or shrink on
demand
• Continuous
Improvement
• Ability to Experiment
• Speed to market
• Scale rapidly
• Decisions based on
Insights
• Ability to reconfigure
operations quickly

87. ThanksThanks

88. Thanks
@fabioarmani
Thanks

89. Thanks
@fabioarmani
Thanks

91. Fabio Armani
www.open-ware.org
@fabioarmani
f.armani@open-ware.org