'Agile Software Delivery: No Longer A Nice To Have': Robert Benefield @ Colombo Agile Conference 2014
- 1. Agile Software Delivery: No Longer a Nice to Have Robert Benefield Evolve Beyond Ltd
- 7. What has Agile Development Changed?
- 8. Product Idea Design Development Test Production
- 9. Product Idea Design Development Test Production
- 10. Product Idea Design Development Test Production
- 12. Product Idea Design Production Production IS part of the Product!
- 13. Too Slow
- 15. Too Slow Too Inflexible ... A lot Like Driving Blind
- 16. Are We Learning... Product Idea Design Production
- 17. Are We Learning... Product Idea Design Production Faster
- 18. Are We Learning... Product Idea Design Production Faster More Flexibly
- 19. Are We Learning... Product Idea Design Production Faster More Flexibly More Transparently
- 22. CAMS
- 23. CAMS • Culture
- 25. CAMS • Culture • Automation • Measurement
- 26. CAMS • Culture • Automation • Measurement • Sharing
- 29. How Can We Learn to See?
- 30. Learning to See Walking the GembaRobert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 31. Flow of Knowledge & Capabilities • Information Radiators
- 32. Information Radiators Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 33. Flow of Knowledge & Capabilities • Information Radiators • Finding & removing traps & bottlenecks – High vs Low bandwidth – SPoFs – Organization & geographical silos • Understanding noise/obfuscation sources • Finding Friction
- 34. Where?
- 35. Who are they? What is important to them? Risk appetites Internal vs External Identify & Understand the Customer Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 40. Move from Fire Fighting to Fire Prevention Understand proactive/reactive ratios Find & Understand Friction Points Make Causes Visible Move Towards Prevention Understanding Production Dynamics Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 41. Understanding Production Dynamics • Incidents • Performance • Workflow Accepted Scheduled In Progress Blocked Done T12 T12 T12 T12 T34 T19 T9 T16 T1 2 T2 2 T4 4 T5 4T6 2 T72
- 42. Team Team Team Team Unscheduled Queue Queue Master Clarification Queue Prioritized Queue Task Task Task Task Work Board Accepted Scheduled In Progress Blocked Done Visualize the workflow Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 43. Environment Hygiene • Snowflake vs Reproducible – Manual vs Automation – “Spray & Pray” vs Images vs Packages • Authoritative Configuration Management – ACID & versioning • Dependency management – Coupling • Data Architecture – Static, dynamic, transient data & structures
- 45. Build trends Test trends Information Sources Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 46. Source Code Information Sources Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 48. Information is powerful Information brings focus & alignment Information helps decision making Information forms knowledge through Learning Information wants to be free Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 49. Automate to improve flow and transparency Automate to reduce people intensity & friction Automate to instrument & find defects early Don’t hide problems ...hiding prevents learning Don’t lose touch with reality Autonomation Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 50. Collaboration
- 51. Operations is Part of the Delivery
- 52. Fire Warden Spot arsonists and fire hazards Coordinate cross functional fire prevention Embedded Ops Leads Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 53. Information Sherpa Ensures information flow Aligns tools, processes and outcomes Embedded Ops Leads Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013
- 54. Agility Is the Future... Product Idea Design Production ... when it Enables Learning
- 55. QUESTIONS? Robert Benefield - Evolve Beyond, Ltd 2013