Measuring the Success of Your Agile Transformation Part 2 June 25, 2014
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Moderator
Andy Powell SPC, CSM
Product Evangelist VersionOne
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A Few Logistics…
Claim 1 PDU Provider ID – 3576 Webinar ID – V1045
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Featured Presenter
Jerry Odenwelder, Product Manager
– 20+ years experience in software development
– Designed and built distributed applications for the telecom, banking, insurance, travel, manufacturing, and software industries
– Agile publications/presentations • “Product Owners are from Mars, Testers are from Venus….or are they?” –
Software Test Professionals Conference October 2011 with JoEllen Carter
• “Feature This: Transforming Borland’s Development Process with Scrum” – Cutter IT Journal 2006 with Matthew Gelbwaks
• Empowering Agile Development with CaliberRM, DevCon 2005
– Scrum Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner
– @jerryodenwelder
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A Quick Review
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A Quick Review
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A Quick Review
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A Quick Review
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Transformations: Complicated at Best
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh
Transformations: Deconstructed
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Transformations: Measured Iteratively
“If it's hard, do it more often and you'll get good at it.”
– Mary Poppendieck
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• Iterative (Scrum/XP)
– Estimate
– Burndowns/Ups
– Velocity
• Flow (Kanban/Lean)
– Cycle Time
– Cumulative Flow
– Work in Progress (WIP)
Common Agile Metrics
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Context for the Remaining Discussion
http://scaledagileframework.com/
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The Foundation of Transformation – Team Metrics
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Iterative Process Team Measures
1 5
2 3
Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software 2
2 1 5 3 3
Release Backlog
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Kanban Team Measures
Working
Software
Release Backlog Pulled as space is available
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Team Metrics in VersionOne
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Scaling your Transformation: Program Metrics
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Scaling your Transformation: Program
Product Backlog
Feature Feature
Feature
1 5
2 3
Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software
2
2 1 5 3 3
Release Backlog
2
2 1 5 3 3
Release Backlog
2
2 1 5 3 3
Release Backlog
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Program Metrics in VersionOne
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Scaling your Transformation: Portfolio Metrics
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Scaling your Transformation: Portfolio
Initiatives Initiatives
Initiatives
Product Backlog
Feature Feature
Feature
1 5
2 3
Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software 2
2 1 5 3 3
Release Backlog
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Portfolio Metrics in VersionOne
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• Definition of Done
• Team Norms
• Continuous Integration
• Automated Testing
• Stop the Line Culture
Other Beneficial Practices
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• It’s not the data, it’s how you use it that matters
• Measurement effects behavior
• Measure outcomes, not output
• Don’t compare teams or individuals
Reminders
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• Correlation does not imply causation
• Past performance does not guarantee future results
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
- Ronald Coase
Caveats
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Q&A
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• Estimate • Burndown/Ups
– Project/Release – Sprint
• Velocity
Common Iterative Metrics and Measures
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• Work in Progress (WIP)
• Cycle Time
• Cumulative Flow
Common Kanban Indicators
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