SFA2018 Project to Product - Carmen DeArdo
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The document discusses the challenges companies face in achieving business value through agile practices, despite implementing new technologies and processes. It emphasizes the importance of value stream management and connecting business goals with technology, highlighting a shift from project to product-oriented approaches. Key recommendations for business leaders include tracking product portfolio metrics and empowering delivery teams to manage flow distribution effectively.
SFA2018 Project to Product - Carmen DeArdo
- 1. © Tasktop 2018© Tasktop 2016 Project to Product © Tasktop 2018Image Source: BMW Group Carmen DeArdo, Tasktop Senior VSM Strategist
- 2. © Tasktop 2018 Carmen DeArdo Carmen has experience both leading and consulting on Enterprise wide DevOps Journeys over the last decade. His current focus is on utilizing this experience and Value Stream Management principles to help companies accelerate their flow of business value work. @carmendeardo Senior VSM Strategist @ Tasktop Technologies, Former member of DevOps leadership team @ Nationwide
- 3. 43 STRATEGIC PARTNERS36 TOOLS SUPPORTED57 TOOL VERSIONS SUPPORTED300+ API TESTS RUN PER DAY500k OF THE FORTUNE 100 STAFF A Little About Tasktop Founded 2007 Committed to customer and partner-centric innovation 4 product lines & contributor to open source products 160
- 4. © Tasktop 2018 The Problem We have implemented Agile! We have implemented New Technologies! We have certified Processes! So why is the Business Still Unhappy?
- 5. © Tasktop 2018 Increase Flow across the entire Value Stream Time BUT must also connect to the Business Agile is a good place to start AND ”Code To Cloud” is necessary Agile Design / Develop / Test Stories from Backlog through Iterations Customer Concept (IDEA) through Feature Definition Stories Done until deployed into production
- 6. © Tasktop 2018 Barclays’ Value Stream Image taken with permission from Jon Smart presentation at DOES London 2018 – credit Klaus Leopold
- 7. © Tasktop 2018 IT is disconnected from the business and vision. Leadership is tracking activities not the results. Project funding is fundamentally broken. Business feels IT is solving its own problems, not delivering more IT feels like a black box to the business. Common Problems 01 02 03 04 05
- 8. © Tasktop 2018 Technological Revolutions Figure: Adapted from Carlota Perez
- 9. © Tasktop 2018 The Turning Point Creative Destruction Wealth Generation Figure: Adapted from Carlota Perez
- 10. © Tasktop 2018 Technological Revolutions Factory systems Subcontracting Taylorism Fordism Figure: Adapted from Carlota Perez Project Management
- 11. © Tasktop 2018 Mawdud Choudhury “Brick & Mortar US Retailer Market Value” ExecTech Stock Price Change 2006-2016 50% of S&P 500 projected to be replaced in 10 years
- 13. © Tasktop 2018 Project vs Product Orientation Budgeting Timeframes Success Teams Prioritization RiskVisibility
- 14. © Tasktop 2018 Waterfall orientation Flow orientation Project to Product: Planning Project Product
- 15. © Tasktop 2018 Start Delivery All learning, specification, and strategic decision making up-front Project to Product: Budgets Project Product
- 16. © Tasktop 2018 Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Product 1 Product 2 Product 3 People are brought to work Work is brought to People Project to Product: People Project Product
- 17. © Tasktop 2018 Lean Principles • Precisely specify value by product, • Identify the value stream for each product • Make value flow without interruptions • Let the customer pull value from the producer Lean Thinking by James P. Womack Image Source: BMW Group
- 18. © Tasktop 2018 Integrated production lines Managed as products Architected around flow Optimized end-to-end Measurement of business results Car production Disconnected tool chains Managed as projects Architected as technology layers Optimized in siloes Measurement of proxy metrics Enterprise IT
- 19. © Tasktop 2018 Business value flow at BMW Plant Quality cars that deliver “sheer driving pleasure” Designed in yearly cycles, delivered every 70s Creative and manufacturing process are decoupled Flow across a linear production line Business value flow in IT New features that deliver success and delight Designed and delivered in daily cycles Creative and manufacturing process are one Flow across a value stream networkImage Source: BMW Group
- 20. © Tasktop 2018 What flows in software delivery? Features Defects Risks Debts New business value, pulled by customer Quality improvements, pulled by customer Security, availability, compliance, pulled by risk officers Technical debt improvements, pulled by architects Flow Items are MECE* *Mutually Exclusive and Comprehensively Exhaustive
- 21. © Tasktop 2018 Death Spiral Debts & Risks Quality Feature Work Defect Work Diagram: Adapted from Gene Kim
- 22. © Tasktop 2018 The Flow Framework™ was created by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. The Flow Framework diagram is protected by copyright laws and may not be copied, modified or distributed without the express written permission of Tasktop. FlowFramework
- 23. © Tasktop 2018 The Flow Framework™ was created by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. The Flow Framework diagram is protected by copyright laws and may not be copied, modified or distributed without the express written permission of Tasktop. FlowFramework
- 24. © Tasktop 2018 Flow Time
- 25. © Tasktop 2018 Flow Distribution
- 26. © Tasktop 2018 Flow Efficiency
- 27. © Tasktop 2018 Flow Metrics Dashboard
- 28. © Tasktop 2018 How can we do this?
- 29. © Tasktop 2018 From silos and proxy metrics To a connected value stream network
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- 32. © Tasktop 2018 Flow Framework at Tasktop Example
- 34. © Tasktop 2018 Top Priority: New Features Result: Defects & Debt Last year: Unhappiest team This year: Happiest team Less Happy
- 35. © Tasktop 2018 Advice Business leaders Ensure product portfolio and Value Stream Metrics are tracked Empower delivery teams to allocate Flow Distribution to match strategy Know when hitting north star requires global focus (e.g., Debt reduction) Technologists Create your value stream network by connecting your tool network Define your value stream architecture & mapping to product model Use the flow metrics to identify bottlenecks, dependencies & opportunities
- 36. © Tasktop 2018 FlowFramework Project & Cost Centers Siloes & proxy metrics Fragmented value streams Product Value Streams Flow Metrics & Business Results Integrated Value Stream Network The Flow Framework™ was created by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. The Flow Framework diagram is protected by copyright laws and may not be copied, modified or distributed without the express written permission of Tasktop.
- 37. © Tasktop 2018 Actions to Take Today CONNECT Get Your Tools Talking 01 MODEL YOUR PRODUCT MODEL Model Your Artifacts Model Your Statuses 02
- 38. © Tasktop 2018 Available Nov 20th @mik_kersten tasktop.com/blog @carmendeardo project2product.org flowframework.org