Planning, scaling and flowing within your agile organization
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Dimitri Ponomareff is a passionate coach and change agent recognized for energizing teams and facilitating continuous improvement across various organizations, including major corporations like American Express and Mayo Clinic. The document outlines the concept of organizational agility, emphasizing the importance of planning, scaling, and flow within agile frameworks and methodologies. It also discusses various approaches to scaling agile practices, such as Scrum at Scale and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), highlighting their principles and implementation strategies.
Planning, scaling and flowing within your agile organization
- 1. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Planning, Scaling and Flowing within your Agile Organization
- 2. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com About Dimitri Ponomareff Dimitri Ponomareff (www.linkedin.com/in/dimka5) is a Coach. Whether it's a sports team, software products or entire organizations, Dimitri has that ability to relate and energize people. He is consistently recognized as a very passionate and successful change agent, with an overwhelming capacity to motivate and mobilize teams on their path to continuous improvements. He is a master facilitator, as well as a captivating speaker with consistent, positive feedback regarding his ability to engage an audience. As a certified Coach, Project Manager and Facilitator of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Dimitri brings a full spectrum of knowledge in his delivery of methodologies. Through teaching by example, he is able to build teams of people who understand where to focus their work to generate the most value. He has coached and provided tailor-made services and training for a multitude of organizations. The short list includes, American Express, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Choice Hotels International, JDA Software, LifeLock, First Solar, Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children's Hospital. Dimitri enjoys his work, and does everything to ensure he shares his knowledge with others who seek it.
- 3. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Organizational agility... is the ability of an organization to effectively sense and adapt in complex, rapidly changing conditions so that it can thrive as an organization. Plan to achieve your goals Scale to increase your productivity Flow to gain the most efficiencies
- 4. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com It’s all about communication People who want IT must communicate with people who can build IT.
- 5. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com The Third Wave of Agile http://www.solutionsiq.com/the-third-wave-of-agile/
- 6. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Plan ● The 5 levels of planning ● Planning traceability ● Let’s play Plinko!
- 7. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com The 5 levels of Planning in Agile
- 8. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Planning Traceability Vision Roadmap R1 R2 R3 Rn Release 1 SP1 Iteration 1 ST1 STnST3ST2 Iteration n ST1 STnST3ST2 Story 1 T1 TnT3T2 Story n T1 TnT3T2 SPnSP3SP2 Release n SP1 SPnSP3SP2
- 9. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Let’s play Plinko...
- 10. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scale ● Scrum of Scrums ● Scrum at Scale ● Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) ● Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) ● Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- 11. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scaling Scrum “Scaling Scrum means getting rid of stuff because everything in Scrum is just in time, just enough,…and because any extra weight slows you down and increases cost. ” – Jeff Sutherland Sutherland, Jeff. “Scaling Scrum – What People Are Not Talking About!” http://www.scruminc.com/scaling-Scrum-what-people-are-not/
- 12. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scrum of Scrums Each Scrum team identifies one person who attends the Scrum of Scrums meeting to coordinate the work of multiple Scrum teams.
- 13. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scrum at Scale framework ● It’s a minimal extension of the core Scrum framework ● Modularity is the key, by allowing context-driven solutions and processes ○ Modularity allows versatility ○ Scrum is modular ○ Deploying incrementally is easier ○ Modularity supports a pattern library
- 14. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Modular Framework for Scrum at Scale
- 15. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
- 16. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) LeSS is a scaled up version of one-team Scrum, and it maintains many of the practices and ideas of one-team Scrum. https://less.works
- 17. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework DAD is goal driven and relies on hybrid Agile. DAD provides guidance for adoption of an Agile framework. Scaling factors ● Team size 2 < > 1000 ● Geographic distribution co-located < > global ● Organizational distribution single division < > outsourcing ● Compliance none < > life critical ● Domain Complexity straightforward < > very complex ● Technical Complexity straightforward < > very complex http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/
- 18. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Disciplined Agile 2.0
- 19. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) SAFe is an online, freely revealed knowledge base of proven success patterns for implementing Lean-Agile software and systems development at enterprise scale. SAFe Principles 1. Take an economic view 2. Apply systems thinking 3. Assume variability; preserve options 4. Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles 5. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems 6. Visualize and limit the WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths 7. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross domain planning 8. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers 9. Decentralize decision-making http://scaledagileframework.com/
- 20. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com SAFe Evolution (v1 to v4) 1 2 3 4
- 21. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- 22. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Flow ● Flow in psychology ● Flow in the workplace ● Lean Thinking ● Kanban Practical flows... ● Why, What & How ● Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) ● Feature Driven Development (FDD) ● Product, Epics & Stories
- 23. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Flow in psychology Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. being in the zone
- 24. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Flow in the workplace Flow has been used in the software world as being "wired in", “hack mode”, or simply “The Zone”. The 3 conditions to achieve Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s 1. Goals are clear 2. Feedback is immediate 3. A balance between opportunity and capacity Group Flow or group cohesion can be achieved through ● Creative spatial arrangements ● Playground design ● Parallel, organized working ● Target group focus ● Advancement of existing one with prototyping ● Increase in efficiency through visualization ● Using differences among participants as an opportunity, rather than an obstacle
- 25. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Lean thinking Coined by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, it describes how to organize human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste, by focusing on these concepts: ● Value ● Value streams ● Flow ● Pull ● Perfection
- 26. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Toyota Production System (TPS) http://www.toyota-global.com/company/vision_philosophy/toyota_production_system/
- 27. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Kanban 4 Principles 1. Start with what you do now 2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change 3. Respect the current process, roles, responsibilities and titles 4. Encourage acts of leadership at all levels 5 Properties 1. Visualize the workflow 2. Limit work-in-progress (WIP) 3. Measure and Manage the flow 4. Make process policies explicit 5. Improve collaboratively using models and empirical evidence
- 28. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Cumulative Flow Diagram A great way to read the data behind a Kanban board is to use a cumulative flow diagram. ● Backlog size ● Lead time ● Cycle time ● Work in progress ● Work remaining http://wall-skills.com/2013/cumulative-flow-diagram/
- 29. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Why, What & How ●WHY are we doing this? Voice of the stakeholder (Stakeholders) ●WHAT needs to be done? Voice of the user (Product Owner, Subject Matter Expert) ●HOW do we build it? Voice of the developer (Scrum Team)
- 30. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com PDCA - Plan, Do, Check, Act ACT PLAN DO PDCA Cycle CHECK Continuous Improvements
- 31. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Feature Driven Development (FDD) www.torak.com
- 32. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Product, Epics & Stories Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Story Product Epics Stories www.torak.com
- 33. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Organizational agility... is the ability of an organization to effectively sense and adapt in complex, rapidly changing conditions so that it can thrive as an organization. Plan to achieve your goals Scale to increase your productivity Flow to gain the most efficiencies
- 34. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Agile Coaching, Staffing and Training. Learn more at www.torak.com Learn more at www.AgileTestingFramework.com
- 35. © Torak, Inc. www.torak.com Thank You
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