1. AGILE ADOPTION
By Bachan Anand
Prepared by Indu Menon
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2. Where Do I Start with Adopting
Agile?
• Education and Buy-in
• Pilot – Try it Out
• Reflect
• Inspect & Adapt then Scale
• Enterprise Agile Adoption
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3. Agile Adoption Roadmap- 3 stages
1 • Readiness
2 • Deployment
3 • Support
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4. Agile Readiness - Goals
• Understand the current state of the product
team
• Set the expectation for change
• Establish an overall strategy for the adoption
• Develop a adoption roadmap
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5. Agile Readiness
• This phase typically lasts about one to three
months.
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6. Agile Readiness - Tasks
• Determine suitability of product
• Determine willingness of team
• Determine capability of team
• Assess engineering practices and Agile
mindset of the team
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7. Agile Readiness - Tasks
• Identify an Agile Coach
• Establish a strategy and plan for
implementing Agile
• Establish periodic progress meetings
• Establish Agile Roles & Organization
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8. Agile Readiness - Tasks
• Determine Stakeholder support
• Establish the Agile practices framework
• Consider Agile tool needs
• Focus on Agile mindset and cultural shift
• Pilot team
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9. Agile Deployment- Goals
• Execute the Agile approach and practices
• Help the team apply them to the project
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10. Agile Deployment
• This phase typically lasts about one to three
months.
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11. Agile Deployment- Tasks
• Provide Agile Training
• Deploy the Agile practices
• Periodic Meetings to ensure deployment is
on track and directionally correct
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12. Agile Support- Goals
• Provide the necessary support (e.g., coaching
and mentoring) and validation
• Identify local Agile Champions
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13. Agile Support
• This phase typically lasts about six to nine
months.
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14. Agile Support- Tasks
• Provide continued Coaching and Mentoring
• Provide In-session Validation of Practices
• Provide periodic check-in meetings to monitor
direction.
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15. Agile Support- Tasks
• Provide periodic Agile assessments to gauge
adoption level
• Provide additional focus on tools and
automation
• Groom local Agile Champions
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16. How can you minimize delivery risk
when moving to an Agile process?
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin
with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
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17. Even large-scale agile adoption
must begin with a single agile
project.
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18. Summary
• Define your challenges
– Technological as well as personal
• Set realistic expectation
– Mastery is not achieved overnight
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19. Special thanks & Content Recognition
• Agile Adoption Roadmap(Written by Mario Moreira, Agile
Journal )
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20. Pay-it-forward / Donation only
trainings
1 day Agile & Scrum Training
• September 24th – Irvine
• September 30th – Boston & San Diego
• October 20th - Phoenix
• October 21st – Denver
• Nov 7th - Portland
• Nov 11th – Seattle
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21. User groups /Communities
• APLN – Agile Project Leadership Network
• Scrum Alliance – Scrum User Groups
• Online User Groups
Scrum Alliance
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22. Scrum Certifications
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23. QUESTIONS?
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24. Donation only 1 day Trainings
• Irvine (Bachan Anand) – September 24th
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• Boston (Manoj Vadakan) – September 30th
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• San Diego (Bachan Anand ) – September 30th
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• Phoenix (Bachan Anand & Alan Dayley)– October 20th
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• Denver (Bachan Anand ) – October 21st
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25. THANK YOU!
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CONTACT INFO
BACHAN ANAND
Bachan.anand@conscires.com
949-232-8900
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