Scaling Agile: Going Beyond the Daily Scrum

Scaling Agile
GOING BEYOND THE DAILY SCURM
Andy Rivers, CSM, SPC, CISSP, ITIL
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Organization

What is Agile?

Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over process and tools
Working Software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in items on the right,
we value the items on the left more

Agile = A way to get work done.

Scrum Basics

Silo

Awareness, No Collaboration

Awareness, Some Collaboration

Overlap, Some Collaboration

IT Perspective

Business Perspective

Scrum of Scrums

Scrum of Scrums
Provides Coordination not always Alignment

Scaled Agile Framework
SAFe

Configurable Framework
1. Full SAFe
2. Portfolio
SAFe
3. Large
Solution
SAFe
4. Essential
SAFe

Core Principles
•ARTs
•PI Planning
•Prioritization

Agile Release Train

PI Planning
• Coordination and Alignment through Vision and Top 10
Features
• Two-Day all-hands on deck meeting, everyone on the
ART (50-125)
• Established Cadence, typically every 10 to 12 weeks
• Defined Objectives for each PI

Coordination and Alignment
Begins at the Top

PI Planning

The Event

Project
Manager??

Project Manager Role???

“You can do anything, but not
everything”- David Allen

Priorities: Value in idea, or...

...in the results?

Work the Shortest Jobs First
Principal: get value as quick as possible by
working shortest high value job first

Top Three for Q3
List your Top 3 projects and/or
initiatives for Q3 in Priority Order

User-Business Value
Do our users prefer this over that? What is the
revenue impact on our business? Is there a
potential penalty or other negative impact if we
delay?
Task: Rate each item against the other items using
relative sizing scores (eg 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21). Start by
scoring the least “1” and score remaining
appropriately.

Time-Criticality
How does the user/business value decay over
time? Is there a fixed deadline? Will they wait
for us or move to another solution? Are there
Milestones in the critical path impacted by this?
Task: Rate each item against the other items
using relative sizing scores (eg 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21).
Start by scoring the least “1” and score
remaining appropriately.

Risk Reduction: Opportunity Enablement Value
What else does this do for our business? Does it
reduce the risk of this or a future delivery? Is
there value in the information we will receive?
Will this feature open up new business
opportunities?
Task: Rate each item against the other items using
relative sizing scores (eg 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21). Start
by scoring the least “1” and score remaining
appropriately.

Job Size
What is effort required to achieve Definition of
Done?
Task: For initial evaluation, assign number of days to
each item. For extensive items use general
estimates such as 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, etc.

Math Time
HIGH SCORE WINS!

Priorities on WSJF
What was the impact to your Top 3 items?

Review
•Scaling Agile for Coordination and Alignment
•Scalable Framework
• Full SAFe
• Portfolio SAFe
• Large Solution SAFe
• Essential SAFe
•Core Components
• ART, PI Planning, Prioritization

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