The document discusses frameworks for scaling agile practices in large organizations. It notes debates around frameworks and their role in helping or hindering agile transformations. While frameworks can help provide structure, the document cautions that agile is first an approach and mindset, not a standardized set of practices, and each organization's transformation will be unique. Frameworks risk standardizing agile in a way that is not aligned with its principles when taken too rigidly.

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Scaling agile to the enterprise -
Frameworks and the debate!
Alex Stokes
Scrum Australia 2016

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#agileaus

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It’s SAFe

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Two kinds of agilist

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Framework = standard

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Wheelers and dealers

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Agile Manifesto
stuff on the left > stuff on the right

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Why are frameworks so popular?

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agile’s promises
Is much more disciplined
than waterfall
Is much less prescriptive
Is an approach
Is a set of practices
Is hard to implement
Is easy to implement,
hard to scale
Makes you faster
Slower but higher quality
Faster but increases cost
Makes you build the
wrong thing quicker
Is more expensive AND
slower but increases team
engagement.
…….make up your mind!

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you are drunk
Go home agile

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Fixing systems of work is hard
• Culture
• Ownership
• Engagement
• Enrichment
Did we just wuss out of the really hard
problems?

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I need some help to transform these people into
agile!!

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Frameworks can help

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License to play

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He cannot be defeated

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SAFe big picture
• It’s big
• It’s complex
• Many people
• Does it help?
• Is it just better
than waterfall?

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The people plague
$136,000!$136,499!

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SAFe PI planning event, yay!

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This is a transformation…

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Variation in the pack
Soft
SoftChaser
Chaser
Killer

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Agile cannot be standardised

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Agile is not just good practice
“ It is an evolutionary approach to innovation and
growth, respecting the people who create value.
Done right, it inspires and facilitates a
transformation of mindset and culture of
knowledge work organisations. A catalyst is the
adoption of certain (good) practices like a daily standup
and a visual board. These adoptions change how
people collaborate and inspire them to re-think their
workplace…
- Michael Sahota

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Agile is not a framework
…New practices emerge if this improvement process
continues. They will never be similar in two different
organisations. Agile can not be standardised “
- Michael Sahota

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careers.realestate.com.au
Thank you!

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Do you need SAFe?

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careers.realestate.com.au
Thank you!