Failing @ Scaling: Don't Panic, and Carry a Towel - Agile2016

Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters

@PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.comau.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/[email protected]

Failing @ Scaling:DON’T PANIC!& carry a towel

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO SCALING AGILE

Working in your table groups:

1. Introduce yourselves to your fellow Scaled Agile Hitchhikers

2. Share one example each of failing at scaling that you have witnessed or experienced.

3. Make a note of each of the failure patterns your table comes up with on a white index card.

SCALED HITCHHIKER RESEARCH

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...

https://flic.kr/p/fuB8SQ

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

Not Seen/Experienced Not Sure Have seen/experienced

Who has seen or experienced this anti-pattern in the

enterprise?

WHY LARGE TEAMS DON’T WORK

START WHERE YOU ARE AND EVOLVE TO FEATURE TEAMS

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TAKE IT TO THE TEAMS WITH SELF-SELECTION

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Anti-Pattern 2:Out of the Box

or Outside of the Box

INTRODUCING THE BABEL FISH

The Babel Fish, 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!

LIPSTICK ON A PIG

https://flic.kr/p/8MC5YM

…..even with all these improvements, the game is no fun at all.

WE TRIED BASEBALL, AND IT DIDN’T WORK.http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/jatbaseball

https://flic.kr/p/rZhpRT



enterprise?

UNDERSTAND THE TRUE IMPACT BEFORE CHANGING

REMEMBER THAT GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT

Anti-Pattern 3:Too many coaches in the kitchen

(with too many recipes)

INTRODUCING 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



enterprise?

PICK A HORSE

WHO’S ON FIRST?

MAINTAINING ALIGNMENT WITH CHAPTERS & GUILDS

Anti-Pattern 4: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 star system, and regrettably 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



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Compliance Service Operations

Agile Team

THERE IS GOING TO BE A COLLISION

https://flic.kr/p/34MM9T



enterprise?

Embrace Agile & Lean

ENCOURAGE THE PMO TO EMBRACE AGILE & LEAN

#WhereisART

CREATE AN AGILE PMO

https://voice.adobe.com/a/mNvq5/

APPLY LEAN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Anti-Pattern 5:Agile is only a Process

INTRODUCING DEEP THOUGHT

AGILE = MONEY FIRE?!

What is the biggest impediment to delivery?

Agile without Technical Practices: Just doesn’t cut it!

Availability of environments

Technical Debt

Access to data

ManualDeploymentProcesses

Lack of Continuous Integration



enterprise?

INVEST IN TECHNICAL ENABLERS

https://flic.kr/p/bgfAgD

Anti-Pattern 6: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 CHEQUEBOOK COMMITMENT

https://flic.kr/p/b2JSuk



enterprise?

THE INVISIBLE WALL

IT IS A TWO WAY STREET

https://flic.kr/p/nNgsnx

Anti-Pattern 7:Forget you’re standing

in a Waterfall

INTRODUCING THE INFINITE IMPROBABILITY DRIVE

HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY



enterprise?

BE INCLUSIVE OF YOUR WATERFALL FRIENDS

UNDERSTAND LEAD TIME & PLAN ACCORDINGLY

https://flic.kr/p/jmDQZk

The true secret to scaling is learning to learn together.

Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters

@PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.comau.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/[email protected]

So long and thanks for all the fish!

Failing @ Scaling: Don't Panic, and Carry a Towel - Agile2016

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