The Ugly Truth of Scaling Agile Scott Blacker VP Product & Services AgileCraft Kreisler Ng Sr. Manager, Agile Delivery cPrime
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The Ugly Truth of Scaling Agile
Scott BlackerVP Product & ServicesAgileCraft
Kreisler NgSr. Manager, Agile DeliverycPrime
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Drive Agile and DevOps success through a blend of unified software services
Simply Software at Scale
To Gain Strategic Advantage
AGILECRAFT
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I T ’ S T R U LY A B O U T S U R V I V A L
THE GAME IS RAPIDLY CHANGING
Software is eating the world1 The acceleration of the technology curve is quickening the turnover of large enterprises / the fortune 500.
2Increasingly software is highly strategic and has a major impact on outcomes regardless of the vertical / industry in question
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Agility has replaced market share as a key driver of competitive advantage
I T ’ S T R U LY A B O U T S U R V I V A L
THE GAME IS RAPIDLY CHANGING
STATE OF AGILET H E B A S I C S
1st Generation - (approx. 1994 – 2002) searched for and found a different way of building solutions focused on small teams of developers.
2nd Generation – (approx. 2002 – 2010) realized requirements & testing must be agile as well to create development flow.
3rd Generation – (approx. 2010 – present) builds on development flow and deals with scale, value stream, product lines, portfolios and integration to strategy and the rest of the enterprise.
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Scaling is a well understood concept at this point.
Plenty of frameworks exist.
We’ll just pick one and train the teams.
Right?
Introducing the 5 ugly truths of scaling agile
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T H E U G LY T R U T H O F S C A L I N G A G I L E
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Ugly Truth #1:
Semantics(Your epic is my
initiative)
Scoping(Your “3” isn’t the same as my “3”)
Sprints(My sprints MUST start
on a Tuesday)
Even the seemingly simplest aspects of a transformation are massive headaches
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Ugly Truth #1:
Semantics(Your epic is my
initiative)
Even the seemingly simplest aspects of a transformation are massive headaches
Epic
Feature
Story
Initiative
Epic
Story
SAFe JIRA
Scoping(Your “3” isn’t the same as my “3”)
Sprints(My sprints MUST start
on a Tuesday)
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Secret Weapons
• Agile Coalition / Communities of Practice
• Listen and explain the why• Knowing when to pick a
strong stance
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PREDICTABILITY, SPEND & RESULTS
STRATEGY,GOALS,
& PRIORITIES
Ugly Truth #2: Your top-down transformation is going to fail……and so is your bottoms-up.
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Secret Weapons:
• Start from the top and from the bottom
• Listen and empathize• Make it a safe
environment to fail
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Bimodal Ceiling
Ugly Truth #3: There will be a glass ceiling.Breaking through will not be easy.
Management CeilingFinance Ceiling
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Secret Weapons:• Meet me in Bimodal• Pilot as results speak for
themselves• Use the organization’s informal
network
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Ugly Truth #4:Teams have been locally-optimizing since the beginning of Agile. System-optimization is much harder.
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Secret Weapons:• Paint the big picture• Link local data to org-wide data• Focus on Agile HR
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Ugly Truth #5: Many teams don’t actually want to scale.Your job is to show them the light.
• Scaling = transparency which is scary / drives accountability / reduces freedom to whatever you want• Don’t want to be compared….game the system if
compared
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Secret Weapons:• Collaborate with Teams• Build Trust
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Ugly Truth Secret Weapon(s)
Even the seemingly simplest aspects of a transformation are massive headaches 1
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T H E U G LY T R U T H O F S C A L I N G A G I L E
• Agile Coalition / Communities of Practice• Listen and explain the why• Knowing when to pick a strong stance
Your top-down transformation is going to fail……and so is your bottoms-up.
• Start from the top and from the bottom
• Listen and empathize• Make it a safe environment to fail
There will be a glass ceiling.Breaking through will not be easy.
• Meet me in Bimodal• Pilot as results speak for themselves• Use the organization’s informal network
• Collaborate with Teams• Build Trust
Many teams don’t actually want to scale.Your job is to show them the light.
Teams have been locally-optimizing since the beginning of Agile. System-optimization is much harder
• Paint the big picture• Link local data to org-wide data• Focus on Agile HR
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