Agile Austin Leaders SIG WELCOME!! Agile Austin Leaders SIG Dec 2, 2016

SIG Purpose SIG Lead Facilitator Logistics Bring together people leading Agile adoption… Share successes, challenges, approaches, laugh, argue, etc… SIG Lead Facilitator Max Ekesi - Quality Process Manager @ General Motors Email: maximilian.ekesi@gmail.com Logistics First Friday of the month Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00pm Venue: Kasasa 3rd Floor

Dec 2 Speaker: Max Ekesi – IT Manager @ GM Topic: Data Driven [Agile] Adoption Jan 6 – **Off Due To Holidays** Feb 3 Speaker: Roy Deegan Topic: Situational Leadership Mar 3 Speaker: Jared Hodge Topic: Agile Manager

Data Driven [Agile] Adoption

Intro Slide… Quality Process Manager - General Motors IT Mar 2016 – Present DevOps Manager – General Motors IT Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 Agile Process Team Manager – General Motors IT Dec 2012 – Jun 2014 Uber ScrumMaster / Agile Coach - Dell Inc - IT, Jan 2010 – Nov 2012 Sr Project Manager / Scrum Master - Dell Inc - IT, Aug 2007 - Dec 2009 Software Dev Team Lead / Scrum Master - Dell Inc - IT, Oct 2005 - July 2007

Data Driven [Agile] Adoption

Data Driven [Agile] Adoption

Data Improves Agility… how? Understand Status Quo Visualize The “Opportunities” Raise Visibility To Pros & Cons Allow People To Self-Manage Improvement Measure Progress…

Start With Biggest Pain Point… Why are Requirements an issue? Established metric to measure data: Details Tab Acceptance Criteria Tab More to be added… Who – What – Why? Format is up to team Acceptance Criteria What is needed for end user to accept? Details Acceptance Criteria

Collect Data  “Story Completeness Report” STRENGTHS THREATS

What Is Happening Now? Not being Agile, Not Doing Agile Using Agile to continuously improve Sharing “Best Practices”… Backlog Grooming Sessions Complete Planning Prior To Dev/Test Work Continuously measuring data trends…

Use Agile (practices) … Improve! STRENGTHS Get Data THREATS Use Agile (practices) … Improve!