Agile Roots: The Agile Mindset - Agility Across the Organization

The Agile Mindset:
Agility Across the
Organization
Cory Foy | foyc@coryfoy.com | @cory_foy
http://www.coryfoy.com http://www.prettykoolapps.com
Thursday, June 19, 14

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Meetings
PSI Planning
Standups
Scrum of Scrums
Team Retros
PSI Retros
Sprint Demos
Backlog Grooming
Artifacts
Sprint Backlog
PSI Backlog
Scrum Board
Story Points
Sprint Objectives
PSI Objectives
Stories
Features
Epics
Themes
Roles
ScrumMaster
Product Owner
Product Manager
Rel.Train Cond.
Teams
Business
Developers
Testers
Architects
Managers
And Everything a
Traditional Project
Does Too!

Agile != Agility
Waterfall != !Agility

Cargo Cult Transformational
Practices In Place In Place
Principles
Not known, or only at
surface
Internalized - practices
guided by principles
Value
Slight Change - some
things better, but in a
similar state
Org rallies around the
highest value items -
teams understand ROI

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1 2 3 4 5
Practices Principles
Low Context; Low
Discovery; Needs
Strict Guidelines
High Context;
Discovery of
Value; Intuition w/
lightweight risk
management
Novice Individual Expert
Forming Team Performing
Fully Deﬁned Project Discovery Based
Value Deﬁned Program Value Discovered
Follow the Plan Organization Respond to Change

Scrum
SAFe
Kanban
1 2 3 4 5
Practices Principles

OneVision OneVoice One Team

“For business e-mail users who want to better
manage the increasing number of messages they
receive when out of the ofﬁce, BlackBerry is a
mobile e-mail solution that provides a real-time
link to their desktop e-mail for sending, reading and
responding to important messages. Unlike other
mobile e-mail solutions, BlackBerry is wearable,
secure, and always connected.”

“Our vision is to be earth’s most customer centric
company; to build a place where people can come
to ﬁnd and discover anything they might want to
buy online.”
- Amazon.com

“We believe in the simple not the complex. ..We
believe in saying no to thousands of projects...We
believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination
of our groups...we don’t settle for anything less
than excellence in every group in the company, and
we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re
wrong and the courage to change.”
- Tim Cook,Apple Inc.

CEO
Sales Delivery Finance
Teams

CEO
Sales Delivery Finance
Teams
PMO
Project Manager Project Manager

Manager
Team

QE Manager
Team
Dev Manager PM Manager
Design
Manager
Architect
Manager

User
Story
Team
Dev
Design
Test
Arch
Security UX
Increment

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
816 ﬁles changed, 34531 insertions(+)
50 ﬁles changed, 1347 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
“In Waterfall, value gets calculated by
completing a phase or a portion of the solution.
You complete many Waterfall phases without
actually producing any working software. Is
that really value? Or is it just a myth of value?”
http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/Accenture-Demystifying-Agile-POV.pdf

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
286.5 /
1592.5
7 weeks of work
40 weeks to do the 7 weeks

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
Backlog
of
Work
17 21 11 24 7 13 19
Days Available
Capacity: 112 Days
(97 Days)
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Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
Backlog
of
Work
17 Features
Needed: 100 Days
Feature Cycle Time: 8 Days
Feature WIP Limit: 2
9 Sets
8 Days per set
Total: 72 Days

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
Time Period 20 Weeks (2 PSIs)
Number of Teams 27
Number of Hours 326,000
% Support/Defect Stories 48%

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
Command and Control
Only GetsYou
WhatYou Know

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
QE Manager
Team
Dev
Manager
PM Manager
Design
Manager
Architect
Manager
Dev
Manager
Dev
Manager
Dev
Manager

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
QE Manager
Team
Dev
Manager
PM Manager
Design
Manager
Architect
Manager
Dev Manager
Dev
Manager
Dev
Manager
Dev
Manager
Leadership

Outcomes
over
Output
Velocity
over
Capacity
Throughput
over
Utilization
Leadership
over
Management
[Agility] happens not by exception, but is integral to all
parts of the ﬁrm
- (apologies to) Steve Blank

B1 B2 B3 B4
Team

B1 B2 B3 B4
Team
OneVoice

Cory Foy
foyc@coryfoy.com
@cory_foy
blog.coryfoy.com
prettykoolapps.com
coryfoy.com
Agile, Lean
and Waterfall
Workshop -
Friday @1pm

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