ShriKant  Vashishtha  

What  All  It  Takes  to  Scale  Agile?  

Some  Scaling  Issues  in  Large  Enterprises  

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End-­‐to-­‐End  FuncBonal  IntegraBon  Accountability?  

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QuesBon  on  SancBty  of  HolisBc  Architecture  

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Missing  Roles  -­‐  System  Architect  and  Team  Architect  

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Constrained  Because  of  Big  Batch  Sizes  (read  Project)  

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Siloed  Teams  

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Siloed  Teams  

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Flow  DepicBon  

Waste  of  Repeatedly  Forming  and  Dissolving  Teams  

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How  to  QuanBfy  Business  Value  across  Features?  

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How  Scaled  Agile  Framework  (SAFe)  Solves  Them?  

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Introducing  New  Roles  Such  as  Product  Manager  

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Work  on  Features  instead  of  Projects  

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Introducing  Cross  FuncBonal  Teams    

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SBcky  or  StaBc  Teams  

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•  A  number  of  teams  engaged  in  ongoing,  conBnuous  development  –  a  flow  of  products,  services,  applicaBons  etc.  

•  Avoids  the  delays  and  overhead  of  the  start-­‐stop-­‐start  nature  of  tradiBonal  development.  

Weighted  Shortest  Job  First  (WSJF)  

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WSJF  =  Weighted  shortest  job  first  RR  =  Risk  ReducBon  OE  =  Opportunity  Enablement  

•  Take  an  economic  view  •  Ignore  sunk  costs  •  If  quality  one  thing  only  –  

quality  cost  of  delay  •  Use  decision  rules  to  

decentralize  economic  control  •  Economic  choices  to  be  made  

conBnuously  

SAFe  Big  Picture  

•  Proven,  publicly-­‐facing  framework  for  applying  Lean  and  Agile  pracBces  at  enterprise  scale  

•  Synchronizes  alignment,  collaboraBon  and  delivery  

•  Scales  successfully  to  large  number  of  pracBBoners  and  teams  

 Core  Values  1.  Code  quality  2.  Program  execuBon  3.  Alignment  4.  Transparency  

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Scaling  at  Program  Level  

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What’s  New  at  Program  Level?  

•  New  roles  (Product  Manager,  Architect,  UX)  and  ceremonies  (Release  planning,  Scrum  of  Scrums,  Release  management,  System  Demo,  Inspect  and  Adapt)  

•  Agile  Release  Train  •  Feature  vs  user-­‐story  •  PSI  (PotenBally  Shippable  Increment)  

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Agile  Release  Train  (ART)  www.agilebuddha.com    

Agile  Release  Train  (ART)  www.agilebuddha.com    

Develop  on  Cadence  and  Deliver  on  Demand  

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SAFe  at  Program  Level  -­‐  Summary    

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Thank You.

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