Avoiding the agile alignment trap
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The document critiques modern agile practices, suggesting they are ineffective, and emphasizes the need for DevOps as a solution. It discusses the alignment trap in IT, where businesses fail to improve IT performance despite aligning with objectives. Key points include the importance of understanding people dynamics in project success and the statistical analysis of DevOps practices from industry surveys.
Avoiding the agile alignment trap
- 1. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap with DevOps Mike Long @meekrosoft Chief Technology Officer
- 2. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft
- 3. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Agenda: Modern agile is rubbish We are all doomed Save yourself (with devops)
- 4. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish
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- 14. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Well that escalated quickly...
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- 17. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft “It's like déjà vu all over again” Yogi Berra
- 18. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft “...the implementation described above is risky and invites failure”
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- 22. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft This is why we can’t have nice things!
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- 24. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
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- 27. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft This. Is. Rubbish.
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- 30. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish
- 31. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft We are all doomed Modern agile is rubbish
- 32. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Alignment and Effectiveness
- 33. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Align ment
- 34. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft The Alignment Trap ● Published in 2007 ● Investigating corporate IT performance ● Based on surveys of more than 500 senior business and technology executives world-wide
- 35. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft In the path to IT-enabled growth, the first move is critical….
- 36. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Maintenance Zone ● Majority of responses in this category ● Spending focuses on “keeping the lights on” activities
- 37. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Well-oiled IT ● IT not aligned with business goals ● Cheaper and more effective than average
- 38. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft IT-enabled Growth ● The pinnacle ● IT -> Business Performance
- 39. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft The Alignment Trap ● Business alignment traps the IT from investing in improvement ● companies ... almost always find it better to move downward and rightward into “well oiled” terri-
- 40. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft The Alignment Trap ● Business alignment traps the IT from investing in improvement ● companies ... almost always find it better to move downward and rightward into “well oiled” terri-
- 41. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft
- 42. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft “Aligning a poorly performing IT organization to the right business objectives still won’t get the objectives accomplished” Richard F. Connell, CIO of Selective Insurance Group
- 43. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft “Aligning a poorly performing IT organization to the right business objectives still won’t get the objectives accomplished” Richard F. Connell, CIO of Selective Insurance Group
- 44. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish We are all doomed
- 45. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish We are all doomed Save yourself
- 46. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish We are all doomed Save yourself (with devops)
- 47. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft ● Annual survey of thousands of IT professionals ● Questions designed to test various hypotheses about DevOps ● Statistical analysis published in free report, and follow-on peer-reviewed journals ● Authors: Puppet & DORA Data Gathering
- 48. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Data Gathering
- 49. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Establishing Cause and Effect with Performance Drivers https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report Transformational Leadership Lean Product Management Test and deployment automation Continuous Integration Trunk-based development Shifting left on security Loosely-coupled architecture Empowered teams Continuous Delivery Deployment Pain IT performance Organizational performance Non-commercial performance Personal Recognition Supportive Leadership Intellectual stimulation Inspirational communication Vision Team experimentation Working in small batches Gathering and implementing customer feedback
- 50. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Establishing Cause and Effect with Performance Drivers https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report Financial Outcomes Practices and Tools Transformational Leadership Lean Continuous Delivery
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- 54. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft https://www.scaledagileframework.com/blog/assess-your-devops-health-with-the-safe-devops-radar/
- 55. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft “It's like déjà vu all over again” Yogi Berra
- 56. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Mentimeter: Measuring culture
- 57. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Culture matters Westrum culture models, Table 3.1 Accelerate
- 58. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Culture matters “investments in technology are also investments in people”
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- 62. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft In the title, I refer to people as “components”. That is how people are treated ... The mistake in this approach is that “people” are highly variable and non-linear, with unique success and failure modes.
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- 64. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Problem 1. The people on the projects were not interested in learning our system.
- 65. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Problem 2. They were successfully able to ignore us, and were still delivering software, anyway.
- 66. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft ● Almost any methodology can be made to work on some project. ● Any methodology can manage to fail on some project. ● Heavy processes can be successful. ● Light processes are more often successful...
- 67. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft ...in front of us all the time, which we are not seeing: people. People’s characteristics are a first-order success driver, not a second-order one
- 68. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Defence Innovation Board: Competence trumps process https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF
- 69. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF
- 70. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Defence Innovation Board: Bonus Article! https://media.defense.gov/2018/Apr/22/2001906836/-1/-1/0/DEFENSEINNOVATIONBOARD_TEN_COMMANDMENTS_OF_SOFTWARE_2018.04.20.PDF
- 71. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Autonomy. Mastery. Purpose.
- 72. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Autonomy?
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- 74. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Mastery and Purpose
- 75. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Mastery and Purpose
- 76. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft Modern agile is rubbish We are all doomed Save yourself (with devops)
- 77. Avoiding the Agile Alignment Trap @meekrosoft The Continuous Delivery and DevOps Company