Agile XXL

Scaling Agile for Project Teams

Alan Bustamante, PMP, PMI - ACP

March

29,

2012

Further Reading

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The 3 Pillar Model

Scaling Defined

Final Thoughts

Agenda

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One or more team members

non collocated

Require 2 or more Sub teams

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Agenda

Scaling Defined

Three Pillar Model

Final Thoughts

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Success Pillars

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Workspaces

Partnerships

Empowerment

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Breakout

Room

Wall space for

project schedules,

burn downs or

other charts

Open

Space

Co-located

Production

Support

Co-located

Project

Development

Build/ Release

Management

Workspaces

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Planning

Team Coordination

Sub Team Structure

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The

Process

Dictates

Executes

Project

Standards

Group

Project

B

Project

C

Project A

Traditional Process Definition

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• Discourage Ownership

• Increase Waste

• Inhibit Innovation

Changing Will Not Be Easy

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Project

Process

Sub Team D

Evolving set of

project specific

practices

Sub Team A Sub Team B

Sub Team C

Sub

Team C

Process

Evolving

set of sub

team

practices

Feedback

Sub

Team B

Process

Sub

Team A

Process

Sub

Team D

Process

Evolving

set of sub

team

practices

Evolving

set of sub

team

practices

Evolving

set of sub

team

practices

Project

Standards

Group

FeedbackFeedback

Feedback

Update

Agile Process Definition

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Product

Owner

Council

Story Map or

prioritized list

of stories

StakeholdersPrioritize

Populate

Tax

Product

Backlog

Settlements

Product

Backlog

Nominations

Product

Backlog

Producer

Services

Product

Backlog

Populate

Stakeholder

Requests

Pull

Negotiate

Planning

Story Map

Tax Producer ServicesSettlements Nominations

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Data Layer UI Layer

Testing Engineering

Tax Settlements

Sub Team Structure Types

Components

Function

Feature

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A common “Agile” distributed model

Feature 1

Manual SIT

Feature 2

Manual SIT

Based on Waterfall development

Feature 1

Requirements

Architecture

Engineering

Automated SIT

Feature 2

Requirements

Architecture

Engineering

Automated SIT

Report Defect – 11:30pm EST/11am IST (15.5 hr lapse)

Deploy “Good” Build – 8am EST/7:30pm IST

Verify Fix – 11am EST/10:30pm IST (11.5 hr lapse)

Fix Verified – 10:30pm EST/10am IST (11.5 hr lapse)

Mean Time

To Fix (MTTF):

38.5 hours

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A better “Agile” distributed model

Feature 1

Requirements

Architecture

Engineering

Automated SIT

Manual SIT

Based on Agile development

Feature 2

Requirements

Architecture

Engineering

Automated SIT

Manual SIT

Deploy Good build

8am

Report Defect

Noon

Verify Fix

3pm

Fix Verified

4pm

MTTF: 7 hrs

Deploy Good build

8am

Report Defect

Noon

Verify Fix

3pm

Fix Verified

4pm

MTTF: 7 hrs

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Prioritization

Code Quality

Collaboration

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Prioritization

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Some Examples

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Maximize Collaboration

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Source: http://www.zaufishan.co.uk/2010/09/shameless-plug.html

Bake In Code Quality

Source Code Source Code Source Code Source Code RepositoryRepositoryRepositoryRepository

Continuous Continuous Continuous Continuous Integration Server Integration Server Integration Server Integration Server Model OfficeModel OfficeModel OfficeModel OfficeServerServerServerServerManual SITUAT

Jenkins

TDD, Unit Test, Local Integration Build

Send Mainline ChangesPoll RepositoryBad Build

Good BuildDeploy Good Build

Houston, TX Santa Clara, CA Bucharest, RomaniaTDD, Unit Test, Local Integration Build TDD, Unit Test, Local Integration BuildMainline

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The 3 Pillar Model

Final Thoughts

Scaling Defined

Agenda

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Scaling Truths

• Fight the urge to be “pure Agile”

• Put Agile in industry context

• Put Agile in project “bigness” context

• Mute the zealots

• Focus on continuously improving the

people, the process, and the tools

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