Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame
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The document outlines the establishment of an Agile Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on enhancing agile maturity within an organization. It discusses the CoE's role in standardizing agile practices, facilitating transformation, and sharing knowledge through various initiatives and community engagement. The document also describes the initial steps taken to launch the CoE, as well as methods to assess agile readiness and maturity among teams.
Agile Center of Excellence : Presented by Rahul Sudame
- 1. BUILDING AGILE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR AGILE MATURITY Rahul Sudame DiscussAgile Day, Pune
- 2. AGENDA What is Agile COE? COE or COP? How did we start? What worked? Different Agile COP initiatives Guidelines
- 3. WHAT IS AGILE COE? A platform to share Agile knowledge, experience A mechanism to ensure standard application of Agile practices across projects A forum where team members can raise their queries, views, concerns A group in the organization that facilitates Agile Transformation A community which is passionate about Agile
- 4. SHOULD WE HAVE COE OR COP? Center of Excellence Communities of Practice Designated leaders define Agile standards for the org Group of people with similar interests Platform for ensuring adherence / compliance to these standards Platform for sharing experience, views, best practices, lessons learned Have the authority Influencing without authority Thought: Excellence comes from applying the same behaviors and practices across teams Thought: People talk to one another and learn from each other COE Lead Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 COE Team • SME • SME Tools COP • SME • Volunteer Testing COP • Scrum Masters • Volunteers SM COP
- 5. WHAT DOES THIS GROUP DO? Build Agile awareness Forum for experience sharing Support for challenges Develop Tools, Templates, Integr. Improve maturity iteratively Facilitate events, trainings
- 6. HOW DID WE START? Sr. management team initiated COP Initiated with core team members Broadcasted / Advertised COP launch Invited volunteers to engage in activities Built rewards / recognition mechanism Ensuring that the COP remains Active!
- 7. WHAT WORKED - COP PORTAL
- 8. STANDARDS
- 9. GUIDELINES
- 10. TEMPLATES
- 11. NFR TEMPLATES Typically known as the “ilities” – reliability, usability, scalability, maintainability, etc. They are constraints which must be considered during development Program-level NFRs apply to the system as a whole Team-level NFRs apply to a feature or component in a team’s domain Consider Documentation, Environment setup as well
- 12. SUPPORTED TOOLS STACK Test case Management Defect Management Automation Performance Testing DevOps OpenSource Commercial
- 13. BOOK CLUB
- 14. AGILE READINESS ASSESSMENT MODEL Identification of Agile readiness using objective assessment Team’s interest / enthusiasm to be factored in Best suited teams to initiate pilot Gap analysis can highlight organization’s preparedness Measuring ROI of Agile Transformation Agile Readiness Questionnaire Question Guidelines Points Team size • 5 – Team size of 7 to 9 3 – Team size less than 7 2 – Team with 10 to 15 members • 1 – More than 15 members 2 Team Composition • 5 - Completely cross functional 3 - Cross functional with some dependency on external teams 0 - Not Cross functional 2 Business Value Stream Coverage • 5 - Team covers the entire business value stream 1- Less than 50% of the value stream 0 - Less than 10% of the business value stream 1
- 15. AGILE MATURITY MODEL Maturity level of a team can be assessed based on different parameters Organizational benchmarks can be provided as guidelines Agile Maturity Model itself should be lean & aligned with Agile philosophy Measuring ROI of Agile Transformation Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Agile Maturity Model
- 16. BEST AGILE TEAM AWARD Healthy competition amongst the teams can be encouraged Effectiveness of teams on various parameters related with Agile implementations can be considered Team’s approach, Scrum Master / PO’s effectiveness can also be factored in Measuring ROI of Agile Transformation Team Retro Effectiveness Scrum Master Effectiveness Points Team 1 12 24 73 Team 2 18 27 65 Team 3 14 11 62 Team 4 8 14 62 Team 5 10 13 61 Team 6 9 11 46 Assessment for Best Team Award
- 17. COP EVENTS / NEWSLETTER
- 18. SPECIAL COP EVENTS Personal Kanban Day Agile week COE Conference Collaboration Jam Innovation Competitions Johari Window External speakers
- 19. SHARING NEW IDEAS Acceptance Tests: Are specific, unambiguous Can be automated or manual test cases (teams need to automate) Can be written in a programming language (PERL, Groovy, Java) or in natural language (using RobotFramework or Cucumber) or in table format (FIT)
- 20. VIDEOS / QUIZ / CROSSWORD
- 22. SUMMARY Support COP to strengthen Agile environment Encourage Incremental Value Realization Support organizational Change management Build a platform to share Case studies / wins / best practices / lessons learnt / guidelines Provide updates to Sr. management of value delivered through COP activities Building SMEs & Thought leaders (Blogs / White papers) Encourage COP participation
Editor's Notes
- #22: Support healthy debate