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Lean/Agile Basics and Essentials April 18 th Results Washington Agile Friday Webinar University of Washington
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Jeanne Marie Isola Director Finance Program UW-IT Role: Sponsor, Driver, Visionary Leadership Strength: Strategic Thinking Alan Chedalawada President Net Objectives Role: Trainer, Sensei Strength Domain: Influencing Gwen Trentham Project Manager Finance Program UW-IT Role: Subject Matter Expert, Coach Strength Domain: Executing Maureen Noonan Org Dev Specialist Organizational Development UW-IT Role: Governance, Coach Strength Domain: Relationship-Building
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Highest Business Value In a Shorter Amount of Time Predictably Goal and Benefit of Agility
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Source: Standish Group Study of 2000 projects at 1000 companies Usage of Features and Functions in Typical System WASTE and the DELAY OF VALUE
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Lean-Agile helps eliminate or minimize Risks!
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Agility focuses on value Lean principles and Agile practices focused on producing Business value Agility is about Business Value Increments, not development cycles
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Business Value Business Manag ement Team M AKE V ALUE F LOW technic al Business Value The single focus for Priority Progress Work management
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A GILE provides framework and practices for producing increments of functionality L EAN provides principles and practices which enable defining and prioritizing increments of highest Business value Input PriorityPlanningStaging Ready to Pull Iteration 0 Iterative Development Incremental Deployment Support & Feedback I TERATIVE A GILE empirical value stream LEAN - AGILE
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Only work on something that has Business value and you know how to achieve it Only start something you know you can finish (uninterrupted) Have a quick ‘Discovery’ process to enable the above 2 things Lean Thinking
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high utilization throughput Focus on speed of Producing Value Not on utilizing an individual persons capacity
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Stop Starting Start Finishing and
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Lean-Agile Software Development Optimize the Whole Eliminate Waste Build Quality In Deliver Fast Defer Commitment Key Principles Create Knowledge Empower People Focus on Flow (of Value) Continually Improve
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Business Value you cannot build the right thing if you have not discovered it first! Things to Discover… Business Value (ROI) Priority & Sequence Business Value increments Acceptance / Validation Criteria How to build it What resources are needed How to implement it
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Roles, Boundaries, Scale, & Levels
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Business Why is this valuable? Goals Business Value criteria Success metrics Message map Segments / audience Product Vision Budget define Team How to achieve that value? BVIs prioritized by Business Value Prioritized business features Scenarios / Personas Validation approach & acceptance criteria submit to team IT & Business What is best way to deliver that value ? Business capabilities Workflows Process models / maps Scenarios design
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Portfolios Programs Projects Book of Work Rolling Releases Levels 1, 2, & 3 Program Backlog Releases Multiple Teams Product Backlog Iterations Whole Team Lean-Agile Framework Scaled Agile Framework LA Iterative Framework Executive, Business, Management, & Team Business, Management, & Team Business & Team Practices ResponsibilitiesScale and Scope Toolsets Complexity Complexity of environments
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Lean-Agile Roles Business Product Owner (Release) Business Subject Matter Expert Business Analyst Focus Groups User Acceptance Testers LAPM (Scrum Master) Technical Lead Developers Testers Support Executive Sponsor Business Sponsor Stakeholders CIO CTO Technology Sponsor Business Product Owner(s) Business PM Technology Owner Technology Delivery Manager Application Development Manager M ANAGEMENT E XECUTIVE F RONT L INE level 1 level 2 level 3 Lean-Agile Roles Technology
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Team Agility Value Delivery Teams (Pods) Cross-functional Collective ownership Self-organization Consistency Value focus Visibility Terminology and roles Lean-Agile principles, practices, and metrics Velocity and Business Value delivery capacity Consistency Value focus Visibility Terminology and roles Lean-Agile principles, practices, and metrics Velocity and Business Value delivery capacity Team Agility With multiple teams:
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Business value driven -> Incremental
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Business Value Realization Trends
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Business Value ‘Chunk’ Set of capabilities / functionality which provides value to the Business (realizable). Capabilities include people, process, and technology. Minimal Business Increment (MBI) Smallest ‘chunk’ of realizable Business value. Comprised of Business capabilities.
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Business Value ChunkMinimal Business IncrementsFeature / Scenario(s)User Stories Never loses context Right-sized Stories Tasks
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Book of Work: Visibility, Alignment, Transparency, Consistency Deliver Value / Highest Priority
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Lean/Agile Basics
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the B USINESS S COPE, owns V ALUE, and and only the Business can start and stop work! T IMELINE
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Q UARTERLY Business value realization Release train (which train are you going to catch?) I TERATION / I TERATION L ENGTH Two weeks or less recommended Consistent regardless of any factors D AILY Happens every day at the exact same time & location Cadence
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SynchronizationIterationPlanning Daily Stand-up Demo 4 MeetingsRetrospective
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*Sprint = Iteration Basic Agile Flow
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Product Backlog All the work necessary to achieve the Business value Prioritized and sequenced based on Business value Constantly evolving and refined (just in time)
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Product Topline/Release Burn-up Total Program size in Story Points Aug 2012 Oct. 2012 complete Dec. 2012 committed Sep 2013 Apr. 2013 Planned 138 point short fall Funding Shortfall Jul. 2013 Planned Sep. 2013 Planned Top Line / Release Burn-Up. Updated after each Iteration. Depicts the team’s velocity (story points per Iteration), and overlays estimated projections and release points (BVI). This chart and the Feature Burn-Up combine to give executive transparency into each program’s status.
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Key Artifacts Product Backlog Iteration Backlog
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