Steve loos agile operationalizing your org
- 1. Workshop facilitated by Steve Loos Operationalizing Your Org To Respond To Change
- 2. Introduction Steve Loos • Founder, Da Vinci Software • Founder, ScoreMonster • 17 years in IT • Industries: – Healthcare – Banking – Legal – Sports
- 3. • Who’s here? • Attendee expectations • Interactive workshop - 30-40 minutes then open discussion Survey
- 4. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-pitfalls • Wrap up • Operationalize the organization?
- 5. High-performing teams are… • Functional • Flexible Now we operationalize by making this • Repeatable (key to being operationalized) • Efficient
- 6. Functional Teams • Full stack capabilities (Vertical team) • Trusted technology partners • Testing: 25% manual / 75% automation • Developer culture – Test automation – Unit testing – Task stories • Rotate Developers into SCM • Diversify domain knowledge • More?
- 7. Flexible • Quickly re-org • Separate development from operations/support • Project leadership consistency/foundation • More?
- 8. Operationalize • Repeatable = duplicate project team spin up – Keep that high-performing team in place! – And use that team as a model • Efficient = improve project team spin up time
- 9. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-pitfalls • Wrap up • Expect Bob
- 10. What about Bob? Expect Bob
- 11. What are your change events? Roundtable discussion Each group come up with 3-5 change events. (5 minutes)
- 12. Common Change Events • Staffing • Requirements • Technology • Funding • Priorities
- 13. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-pitfalls • Wrap up • Why Plan for Change? • Your Rewards
- 14. Why should we plan for change?
- 17. Your organizations readiness? Roundtable discussion (5 minutes)
- 18. Your Rewards • React to the market quicker • Stay on cutting edge of technology advances • Higher staff retention – Keep staff challenged and engaged – Offer more diverse roles and opportunities • Improved work/life balance • Others?
- 19. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-pitfalls • Wrap up • Leadership • Staffing Strategy • Evangelize • Development • Operations
- 20. Leadership IT and Business Execs/Managers/Product Owners • Understand and Engage • Communicate and Evangelize • Patience but while challenging staff • Set goals • Rotate leadership
- 21. Staffing: Wear Multiple Hats • Product Owner can be an ScrumMaster • Managers/Leads can be an Agile Coach, ScrumMaster and/or Product Owner • Testers can be a BA, Developer • Developers can be a BA, Tester
- 22. Evangelize • Market Initiatives and goals highly visible – Post on walls – Team meetings – Performance reviews – Intranet sites – Others?
- 23. Be the Owner for a Day What would you do to prepare your teams for change? Roundtable discussion (5 minutes)
- 24. Development Culture • Architecture to support platforms for a portfolio of products • Invest in research and development • Test automation and Unit test baked into the stories • Developers and Testers tightly integrated • Maintain transparency with “the business”
- 25. Operations • Leverage SCM and Release Management – Automated deployments – Cloud-based testing environments – Continuous integration – Dashboards (technical and business) • Engage client support into agile process – Leverage their deep domain knowledge – Make time for Ops stories!
- 26. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-pitfalls • Wrap up Pulse check
- 27. Readiness Checklist • Leadership / PMO Support • Training no, coaching yes! • Agile Charter • Collaboration Tools (TFS, Jira, Rally, etc) • Flex space • Domain Knowledge Dependencies – Product – Technical • Software Configuration Management practices • Test automation • Others?
- 28. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Hybrid-agile • Wrap up Pitfalls
- 29. Hybrid-Agile Pitfalls Discuss hybrid-agile pitfalls and come up with 3-5 items. Roundtable discussion (5 minutes)
- 30. Hybrid-Agile Pitfalls • Project plans vs road maps – Dates/hours vs features/priorities • Estimating stories in days/hours • Loss of sprint cadence • Waterfall testing – Stories not tested – 4+ week regression testing period • Others?
- 31. Readiness Assessment • Interviews with Stakeholders & Team • About a Week in Length
- 32. Topics • Definition • Events • Business Case • How • Readiness • Wrap up • Almost lunch time!
- 33. In Closing…
- 34. Takeaways • Embrace Bob • Where many hats • Invest in Dev Ops and Test automation • Stay true to the spirit of agility
- 35. Resources Available for various kinds of coaching & consulting (Team, PMO, Product Owner, Executive) steve.loos@davincisoftware.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/steveloos/