Failing @ Scaling: Don’t panic, and carry a towel!
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Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters
@PrettyAgile prettyagile.comem@contextmatters.com.au
Mark Richards Partner, Context Matters
@MarkAtScaleagilenotanarchy.commark@contextmatters.com.au
Failing @ Scaling:DON’T PANIC!& carry a towel
MEET SCALED AGILE HITCHHIKERS EM & MARK
Anti-Pattern 1:Huge Teams Rather Than
Teams of Teams
INTRODUCING THE TOTAL PERSPECTIVE VORTEX
https://flic.kr/p/gLTAN6
“To Trin Tragula’s horror, … he realised that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have is a sense of proportion”
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SURELY LIFE WOULD BE SIMPLER WITH ONE BIG TEAM...
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Project Manager
Product Owner Business Analyst Change Lead Technical Lead
Logical Data Modeller
Physical Data Modeller
Physical Data Modeller
Vender Project Manger
On Site ETL On Site ETL
On Site ETL Off shore ETL
Off shore ETL Off shore ETL
DBA
Business Intelligence Test Lead
Test Analyst
Enterprise Architect Data SME
Scrum Master
A 22 PERSON AGILE TEAM???
Team Size
Throughput
Scrum Master
Technical Lead Test Lead Developer Developer Developer Developer Developer
SMALL CROSS FUNCTION TEAMS
9 WOMEN CAN’T MAKE A BABY IN ONE MONTH
WHY LARGE TEAMS DON’T WORK
START WHERE YOU ARE AND EVOLVE TO FEATURE TEAMS
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HUGE TEAMS: FROOD INSIGHTS
“After 8, people don’t collaborate”
Adding people to a team wont necessarily make it deliver faster.
Be pragmatic. A small component team may be better than a large feature team.
Anti-Pattern 2:Out of the Box
or Out of the Box
INTRODUCING THE BABELFISH
The Babelfish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars
than anything else in the history of creation!
ALL-TOO-COMMON APPROACH TO SCALING AGILE
Requirements(Waterfall)
Design(Waterfall)
System of Record Build(Waterfall)
Agile Build
Integration Test(Waterfall)
Deploy(ITIL)
Pick a Scaling FrameworkApply language/labelsAnnounce Success
PICK A BOX
SAFe LESS Spotify
DAD NEXUS ESP
Scrum @ Scale
Integral Agile
Roll Your Own
DON’T CHANGE WHAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND
DOES A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING MAKE A TASTY CAKE?
The fanatical proponents of baseball tell us that it is a very exciting game, fun to play and fun to watch. They are clearly either stupid or evil or both, because we tried baseball and it didn’t work …
WE TRIED BASEBALL
We tried baseball and it didn’t work
http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatbaseball
OUT OF THE BOX: FROOD INSIGHTS
Learn by doing
Pick the Scaling Approach that’s right for your context
Inspect and Adapt
Implement it “out of the box”
Anti-Pattern 3:Too many coaches in the kitchen
(with too many recipes)
MEET EDDIE, THE SHIPBOARD COMPUTER
Eddie:
I am pleased to inform you that two nuclear missiles are now headed this way. If you don’t mind, I am going to take action.
Zaphod:COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!
Eddie:Ok, switching to manual mode. Good luck!
HOW MANY COACHES DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHTBULB?
IGNORE IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY
PICK A HORSE
WHO’S ON FIRST?
MAINTAINING ALIGNMENT WITH CHAPTERS & GUILDS
TOO MANY COACHES: FROOD INSIGHTS
Create communities of practice to maintain alignment across coaches.
Pick a scaling approach and a strategic advisor. Inform your coaches of your decision.
Hold your coaches accountably for alignment to your strategy
Anti-Pattern 4:Agile is only a Process
INTRODUCING LUNKWILL AND FOOK
Programmers of Deep Thought
Individuals and InteractionsOVER
Processes and Tools
HOW DID AGILE BECOME A PROCESS THING?
NO DEVELOPER BUY-IN, NO SUCCESS
ITERATIVE AND INCREMENTAL …
ENVIRONMENT PROBLEMS CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE
AGILE IS ONLY A PROCESS: FROOD INSIGHTS
Don’t ignore your developers in your training plan
Invest early and aggressively in achieving full-stack Continuous Integration
Embed agile technical practices through coding kata, mob programming and …
Anti-Pattern 5:Agile is only for developers.
Not the PMO.
MEET THE GALACTIC HYPERSPACE PLANNING COUNCIL
“People of Earth, your attention please.
This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will not doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyerspatial express route through your start system, and regretteably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.”
WATERFALL GOVERNANCE APPLIED TO AGILE DELIVERY?!
Executive Governance Business Steering
Program Committee
OCM BPR
Assurance Committee
IT Control
Program Board
Project Control Board
Project Control Board
Project Control Board
Program Board
Project Control Board
Project Control Board
Project Control Board
Compliance Service Operations
Agile Team
THERE IS GOING TO BE A COLLISION
Embrace Agile & Lean
ENCOURAGE THE PMO TO EMBRACE AGILE & LEAN
AN AGILE PMO
https://voice.adobe.com/a/mNvq5/
LEAN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
AGILE IS ONLY FOR DEVELOPERS: FROOD INSIGHTS
The best way to learn about agile and lean is by doing it! How can you manage or govern what you don’t understand?
Agile is for the PMO (and lots of other non-software people) tooLean portfolio management enables agile at scale
Anti-Pattern 6:Forget you’re standing
in a Waterfall
INTRODUCING LINTILLA
One particular cloning machine was asked to produce 6 copies of a wonderfully talented and attractive girl called Lintilla …
The machine got badly out of synch, however, and it malfunctioned in such a way that it got halfway through creating each new Lintillabefore the previous one was completed, which meant that it was impossible to ever turn it off without committing murder.
AT SCALE, BI-MODAL WILL LAST 5-8 YEARS
FORGETTING THOSE YOU RELY ON MAY NOT BE AGILE
PRETENDING THERE’S NO DEADLINE
PLANNING IN IGNORANCE OF PRODUCTION RULES
Code Freeze
Integration Test Perf Test Pen Test Pre-prod
Deploy Go/No Go Prod Deploy
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The Harsh Reality (planned or otherwise)
The “Agile” Plan
STANDING IN A WATERFALL: FROOD INSIGHTS
Your agile plan should cover the whole lifecycle, even the waterfall bits
Invite your waterfall friends to your agile planning events
Understand the lead times of those around you
Anti-Pattern 7:The fish rots from the head.
MEET ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX, PRESIDENT
Trillian:You idiot, you signed the order to destroy Earth!
Zaphod:I did?
Arthur:He did?
Trillian:Love and kisses, Zaphod? You didn’t even read it, did you?
Zaphod:Well, I’m president, I don’t have a lot of time for reading.
A CHEQUE BOOK COMMITMENT
https://flic.kr/p/b2JSuk
THE INVISIBLE WALL
IT IS A TWO WAY STREET
https://flic.kr/p/nNgsnx
THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD: FROOD INSIGHTS
Teams need to be inclusive of leadership.
A cheque book commitment is not a commitment.
Executives need to model the behaviours they expect from their management teams.
Leaders need to be actively involved.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
The true secret to scaling is learning to learn together.
Prepare to be wrong –Learn to set tripwires
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters
@PrettyAgile prettyagile.comem@contextmatters.com.au
Mark Richards Partner, Context Matters
@MarkAtScaleagilenotanarchy.commark@contextmatters.com.au
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