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TONY GROUT | DIRECTOR OF AGILE AND DEVOPS | @TONYGROUT
Five phrases that shout
Your agile isn’t scaling
February 2001
The manifesto
wasn’t
concerned with
scaling
The fog of scale
Executives are
trying to work it
out for
themselves
2017
Atlassian

Director af agile
and devops
IBM

co-chair global agile
leadership council
2004
My adventure
Lloyds Banking Group
Head of agile and
DevOps transformation
2015
2013
Skype / Microsoft

Head of agile
transformation
FCS

Founder creating EPOS
systems for mid-market
1990
1999
FMI Solutions

Co-Founder/CTO
medical software and
wickedly hard first of a
kinds for enterprise
using XP
Scaling is about
optimizing the flow of
value
Zoom out
Build surfers not tankers
captains
Agilists assemble!
1. My team is doing great
where’s everyone else?
We want the best team
Efficiency or Effectiveness
Efficiency = Fill this gap
One team going faster can
make things worse
But the UI has to be pixel
perfect!
THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
• Identify
• Exploit
• Subordinate
• Elevate
• Repeat
Subordinate: For example
help to automate
Teams over team
Five phrases that shout your agile isn't scaling
2. Your Epic is my Feature
One place you definitely
don’t want to get it wrong
Capacity planning needs a
common currency
The edges have to fit
3. Anyone know why we’re
waiting so long?
Organising
your team
dinner
Troy Magennis, focusedobjective.com
1 in 16
chance of
being
seated on
time
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16
What’s the
chance of
the feature
shipping on
time?
1 Late Late Late Late
2 Late Late Late
3 Late Late Late
4 Late Late
5 Late Late Late
6 Late Late
7 Late Late
8 Late
9 Late Late Late
10 Late Late
11 Late Late
12 Late
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14 Late
15 Late
16
1 in 16
With 4 teams
5-9 people teams are 6%
more productive than 9-16
people teams but 2x more
unpredictable if they
depend on another team
THE DEPENDENCY CHALLENGE
Larry Maccherone / Troy Magennis
Run the experiment?
Minimize
dependencie
s
4. Green or blue? Let’s ask
the Chief Product Owner
Faster decision making
Chat or Video?
100% winner of a 1%
Those closest to the
problem should
make the decision
5. We need to get this right
first time
You get the
lesson after the
test
Bets instead of initiatives
Trends instead of
absolute status
Use guard rails
over
prescriptive
methods to
manage risk
Build guard
rails over
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example
DELIVER VALUE LEAD TIME SUSTAIN
QUALITY
MANAGE RISK
Build guard
rails over
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example
Team
Portfolio
Product / Project
Governance
EnablingFunctions
Executive
Build guard
rails over
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example
Team
Portfolio
Product / Project
Governance
EnablingFunctions
Executive
Build guard
rails over
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example
Team
Portfolio
Product / Project
Governance
EnablingFunctions
Executive
Build guard
rails over
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example
Team
Portfolio
Product/Project
Governance
Enabling
Executive
Build guard
rails not
method
Drivers
Delivery Design
Ownership
Example Team
Executive
Demonstrate the changes
to the assigned Business
Value Metrics as a result of
testing with real
customers (Jira)
Let’s close by zooming out
Scaling is about
optimizing flow
Optimize
Flow
Teams over
Team
Harmony
Minimize Dependencies
Decide close
Adapt or decline
Optimize
Flow
Teams over
Team
Harmony
Minimize Dependencies
Decide close
Adapt or decline
Optimize
Flow
Teams over
Team
Harmony
Minimize Dependencies
Decide close
Adapt or decline
Optimize
Flow
Teams over
Team
Harmony
Minimize Dependencies
Decide close
Adapt or decline
Optimize
Flow
Teams over
Team
Harmony
Minimize Dependencies
Decide close
Adapt or decline
To improve
agility at scale
get a bigger
perspective
You’ve got this
TONY GROUT | DIRECTOR OF AGILE AND DEVOPS | @TONYGROUT
Any questions?
go raibh maith agat
Five phrases that shout your agile isn't scaling

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Five phrases that shout your agile isn't scaling