How do you get repeatable autonomous delivery? In a controversial and interesting presentation, Tony discusses why developers should abandon agile and why those that take orders usually run at half speed, under utilising their imagination and initiative.

1. TONY GROUT | ATLASSIAN | @TONYGROUT
Repeatable Autonomous Team
Delivery

2. Repeatable Autonomous Delivery

3. We should adapt the
approach for the opportunity
or challenge we face
AGILITY

4. Purpose
People deliver better
outcomes when they
understand the “why”
Repeatable Autonomous Delivery
Alignment
Autonomy without a
common goal is chaos
Trust
If you’re hiring competent
people let them decide how
best to do their job

5. Trust

6. Developers should abandon
agile
Ron Jeffries, agile manifesto co-author, 10 May 2018

7. W. Edwards Deming
“A bad system will beat a
good person every time”

8. Those that take
orders usually run at
half speed,
underutilizing their
imagination and
initiative
TRUST

9. Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet
“Don’t move information to
authority, move authority to
the information.”

11. Purpose

12. Repeatable
without the
“why” is
monotony

13. PURPOSE
We only have so
many weeks on
the planet to
make an impact
Life Calendar Journal by Amr Kafina

14. Share the
insights and
the resulting
“why”

15. PURPOSE
People deliver
better outcomes
when they
understand the
“why”

16. Alignment

17. DEV OPS
SPEED UPTIME
UX
EXPERIENCE

18. EFFICIENT TEAMS EFFECTIVE TEAMS

19. We all ship
the
experience

20. ALIGNMENT
All ship the big
bet at the top of
the organizations
open backlog
first
Priority

21. 10x
Increase in value delivered

22. Repeatable

23. Document
Store
Management
Information
Rule
Engine
Credit
Risk
Huge Agile
Mortgage
Products
Mortgage
Broker
Mortgage
Sales Engine
Mortgage
Customer Service
Enterprise
Data Warehouse
Credit
Score
Z
Mortgages
Digital
Shared
Components
CRM Message
Broker
Mainframe Middleware
Test
Environments
Network
System
Management
Service
Availability
Database
Administration
Central Server
Support Software
Packaging
Midrange Unix
Ops
Digital
Retail Mortgages
Group Functions
Business Functions
TribeSquad (average 7 people) Alliance
2,000 people
1,250
people
8,000
people
1,000
people
1,000
people
14,250
people
+1,300
Managers
Z
Z

24. Optimise for simple over
smart - every time
REPEATABLE AT HUGE SCALE

25. Sustainable Quality
No severity 1 level defects
escape to production
Enabling Constraints
Value
Demonstrate which business
metric you plan to improve
Lead Time
Release from idea to live in
under 90 days

26. Have units create and publish
how they work and how
they’ll work with others
REPEATABLE AT HUGE SCALE

27. What does this mean
for you?

28. Purpose
People deliver better
outcomes when they
understand the “why”
Repeatable Autonomous Delivery
Alignment
Autonomy without a
common goal is chaos
Trust
If you’re hiring competent
people let them decide how
best to do their job

29. Be the
change you
seek

30. Thank you
Open for questions