"Agile Portfolio Based Release Trains" by Ralph Jocham, SCRUM.org Certified SCRUM Trainer and founder of Effective Agile #AgileGreece Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Greece/

1. Value
Features over Projects
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2. Ralph Jocham
• Started as programmer; discovered process as a problem early on
• First Unified Process with UML
• Agile since 2000 with XP
• Scrum in 2003
• Oracle, LinkedIn, Roche, Google, The Gap, Swisscom, Texas Instruments, Siemens Medical,
ThoughtWorks, JPMorganChase
• Did come around, different cultures and domains
• Founder of effective agile.
• Trainer with

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Plan
Analyze
Design
Code
Test
Release

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Work is organized
by activity
è Big Batches
Plan
Analyze
Design
Code
Test
Release

5. >60% of features are rarely or never used
(source:
Standish
Group)
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6. Defined vs Emperical
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Scrum (Empirical)"
Waterfall (Defined)"
Plan for the entire
project up-front
Plan a little for the
entire project and then
a little for each Sprint"
(source:
effecGve
agile)
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extern
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Analyze
Design
Code
Test
Release
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Design
Code
Test
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Design
Code
Test
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Design
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7. Value
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Original
Vision
Original
SoluGon
Sprint
11
Sprint
2
Sprint
n
Sprint
n+1
AddiGonal
Value
Welcoming
change/
Coping
with
Complexity

8. Dev
Release
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
TesGng
Design
Dev
TesGng
Release
100%
50%
40%
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
100%
Major
Release
Major
Release
Major
Release
Major
Release
Dev
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(Source:
Gerald
Weinberg,
Quality
SoVware
Management:
Systems
Thinking)
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2012
Ralph
Jocham
effective agile.
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(source:
Johanna
Rothman)
Number of active projects
Ability of people to finish projects quickly Competition for people’s time
Ease of managing the portfolioNumber of completed projects
Number of new projects
that start
leads to
leads to
leads to
reduces
leads to
reduces
leads to
reduces
Number of emergency projects that must start
reduces
perpetuates
Complex Adaptive System

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F3
$
F2
$
F1
$
F3
$
Project 1 Project 2 Project 3
F4
$
F2
$
F3
$
F1
$
F5
$
F1
$
F3
$
F5
$ F4
$
F4
$
F2
$
F1
$
F5
$
F3
$
F6
$
Software Development
Black Box
Release 1Release 2Release 3Release 4
F4
$
F4
$
F1
$
F5
$
F2
$
F1
$
F4
$
F6
$
F5
$
F3
$
F5
$
$ = predicted ROI of feature
Project = project
F4 = feature of project
capacity is 4 features per release
F3F1
F4F4F1
F3
F5
F2
priorising by business
value and capacity
Release
Train
1 per month

11. Dev
Release
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
TesGng
Design
Dev
TesGng
Release
100%
50%
40%
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
Planning
Design
Release
Analysis
Dev
TesGng
100%
Major
Release
Major
Release
Major
Release
Point
Release
V1
Point
Release
V4
Point
Release
V1.5
Point
Release
V4.2
Major
Release
Dev
V1
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2012
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Jocham
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12. Questions?
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Ralph Jocham
effective agile.
www.effec*veagile.com
ralph.jocham@effecGveagile.com
@rjocham

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References
• Manage
your
Project
Por]olio:
Increase
Your
Capacity
and
Finish
More
Projects,
Johanna
Rothman,
PragmaGc
Programmers,
2009
• Scaling
SoVware
Agilty:
Best
PracGces
for
Large
Enterprises,
Dean
Leffingwell,
Addison-­‐Wesley,
2007
• SoVware
in
30
Days:
How
Agile
Managers
Beat
the
Odds,
Delight
Their
Customers
and
Leave
the
CompeGtors
in
the
Dust,
Ken
Schwaber
&
Jeff
Sutherland,
Wiley,
2012