From Chaos to Control, from Control to Freedom - 5 Lessons Learned on our Agile Journey
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The document details Titansoft's agile transformation journey from 2005 to 2016, outlining key lessons learned through various organizational changes and challenges. The five primary lessons emphasize reliance on teamwork, the importance of maintaining successful software products, the value of measurement, the complexity of communication, and the necessity of continual adaptation. It illustrates the evolution of their team structure and processes while highlighting the emotional landscape of their journey.
From Chaos to Control, from Control to Freedom - 5 Lessons Learned on our Agile Journey
- 1. From Chaos to Control, from Control to Freedom Agile Journey of a Singapore SME & Our 5 Lessons Learned By Titansoft & Yves Lin
- 3. About Us 2006 2008 2013 People Developer 2011 100k Concurrent Users 60k Concurrent Users 2015 Gold Award
- 4. 2005 - 2008 2012 - 2013 2014 - Current2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 5. EXIT
- 9. Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 2012 - 2013 2014 - Current2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 10. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 2005 2006 2007 2008 5 people resigned Human Resource Trends Average Headcount HR Turnover Rate
- 13. Oops… No More Heroes Photo Credit: http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4151957/Simon+cowell/28#28
- 14. Wait a minute! Who will “Save the World” now?
- 15. How to keep the world safe without heroes What we have tried up till 2016 - Delegation - Job Rotation - Training - Coaching - Collective Code Ownership - Operates in unit of team
- 16. Lessons Learned #1 Always Rely on a Team, Not Individuals. (When sustainable is what you want)
- 18. Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 2012 - 2013 2014 - Current Age of My Turfs 2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 19. General Manager Development Team Team QA Creative IT HR Organization Chart – Year 2009 Functional Departments
- 20. General Manager Development Front End Team Back End Team QA Creative IT HR Organization Chart – Year 2010 Specialized Teams
- 21. General Manager Development Front End Team Back End Team Production Front End Team Back End Team QA Creative IT HR Organization Chart – Year 2011 Production Maintenance VS New Project Development
- 22. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Product Incidents Trend Monthly Average Incidents Incidents Reduced by 50%
- 23. Human Resource Trends 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Average Headcount HR Turnover Rate 10+ people resigned every year
- 24. You are too slow! How to Deliver Software Faster?
- 25. How To Deliver Software Faster? What we have tried up till 2016 - Change Organization Structure - Back End / Front End Specialist - Production / Development Teams - End to End Teams - Technical Practice - Individual / Team Code Ownership - Continous Integration - Change Scope -Minimum Viable Product (MVP) - Secret Developer Toolbox (No test, hard-code, etc) #1 #1. Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
- 26. Lessons Learned #2 Software Delivery is Easy, Maintenance is the Hard Part. (If your product is successful)
- 28. Photo Credit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/powerful-images-show-life-soldier-6716098 Photo Credit: http://www.b88104069.com/archives/1271 What I Expected What I Really Do…
- 29. Photo Credit: http://velvetchainsaw.com/2010/01/15/radically-relational-the-social-conference/ Let’s make people replaceable!
- 31. Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 Age of SOPs 2012 - 2013 2014 - Current Age of My Turfs 2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 32. Organization Chart Matrix Structure 2 Bosses General Manager PMO Project Mgr. Project Mgr. … Front End Dev. Front End Front End … Back End Dev. Back End Back End … QA QA QA … Creative IT HR
- 33. Product Incidents Trend 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Monthly Average Incidents Stabilized
- 34. Human Resource Trends 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Average Headcount HR Turnover Rate Lowest turnover rate 12%, 7 people
- 35. Product Downtime Trend 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Monthly Average Downtime (Minutes) Downtime increase over 200%
- 36. There must be bad apples! How to Measure Productivity?
- 37. How to Measure Productivity? What we have tried up till 2016 - Time Sheets - Team KPI - Department KPI - Kanban - Measure Development Outputs - Measure Process Efficiency - Measure Product Outcome
- 38. Lessons Learned #3 What You Measure will Improve. (Or at least it appears so)
- 40. Photo Credit: Tomas Li
- 41. Photo Credit: Michael Ong
- 42. Photo Credit: Tomas Li
- 43. Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 Age of SOPs 2012 - 2013 Age of Post-Its 2014 - Current Age of My Turfs 2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 44. General Manager Product Dev. 1 End to End Team Product Developer Product Developer … End to End Team Product Developer Product Developer … Product Dev 2 End to End Team Product Developer Product Developer … Creative Product Dev… IT HR Elite Team Organization Chart Product Oriented Departments
- 45. Product Incidents Trend 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Monthly Average Incidents Reduced by 40%, incidents are mostly from old projects
- 46. Human Resource Trends Average Headcount HR Turnover Rate 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Turnover rate ~ 10%
- 47. Product Downtime Trend 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Monthly Average Downtime (Minutes) Downtime reduced by 80%
- 49. Huh? What did you say? How to Communicate Better?
- 50. How to Communicate Better? What we have tried up till 2016 - Accept Failures - Retrospectives - Facilitation - Visualization - Recognize Assumptions - Satir Iceberg Model - Open Space Technology
- 51. Lessons Learned #4 There are Millions Shades of Grey. (Besides black and white)
- 52. Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 Age of SOPs 2012 - 2013 Age of Post-Its 2014 - Current Age of My Turfs 2009 - 2011 Different Ages as We Progress
- 53. Top Keywords in Our Journey Age of Heroes Age of My Turfs Age of SOPs Age of Post-Its Commitment Req. Change Bug Fix Urgent Support Responsibility Plan Schedule Rewrite Best Practice Accountability Procedure Training Efficiency Metric Ownership Self-organizing Effective Team Assumption
- 54. Top Emotions in Our Journey Age of Heroes Age of My Turfs Age of SOPs Age of Post-Its Interesting Frustrated Excited Proud Nervous Excited Interesting Content Tired Nervous Tired Surprised Frustrated Nervous Interesting Excited Interesting Happy Thoughtful Content
- 55. Tools We Explored Along the Way Product People Process MBTI Kanban UX DISC ISO 27001 KPI PMP Facilitation Coaching ITIL One Page Concept Technical Practices Continuous Integration HR Practice Scrum Agile Data Science Satir Model
- 56. Metrics for People, Product and Process Money Users Frequency of Release Interactions within team Interactions with other teams Product
- 57. Metrics for People, Product and Process Money Users Frequency of Release Interactions within team Interactions with other teams Product Lead Time # of Reworks # of Retrospectives % of time on Manual Work % of time on Repetitive Work Process
- 58. Metrics for People, Product and Process Laughter Post-Its Usage HR Turnover Rate Noise Level in Office Topic of chitchat People Money Users Frequency of Release Interactions within team Interactions with other teams Product Lead Time # of Reworks # of Retrospectives % of time on Manual Work % of time on Repetitive Work Process
- 59. So, What’s Next?
- 60. Lessons Learned #5 “When You're Finished Changing, You're Finished.” -Benjamin Franklin
- 61. EXIT Where I sit now
- 64. Summary 1. Always rely on a team, not individuals. (When sustainable is what you want) 2. Software delivery is easy, maintenance is the hard part. (If your product is successful) 3. What you measure will improve. (Or at least it appears so) 4. There are millions shades of grey. (Besides black and white) 5. “When you're finished changing, you're finished.” Age of Heroes 2005 - 2008 Age of SOPs 2012 -2013 Age of Post-Its 2014 - Current Age of My Turfs 2009 - 2011