How fast can you deliver an “idea” ?

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The Speed of Business…

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Opened first store in 1975

6,000 stores, opening one a

day

$14.4B in 2012,

+17% y-o-y

Net profits $2.7B

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• creativity, quality design and rapid turnaround to adjust to changing market demands -- has…generated an excellent public response to our retailers' collections.”

Design

• Give customers what they want

• Get it to them faster than anyone else

Rules

• Every store in the world receives new models twice a week

• Product reaches European stores in 24-36 hours and rest of the world within 48 hours. Since 1970s!

Logistics

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The difference…• Conventional manufacturing teams gather

requirements, design the solution, build the solution, test the solution, then deliver the solution. In automotive companies, the design portion alone takes 3 to 12 years, and then the vehicle design is built for 5 to 14 years.

• WIKISPEED follows the model of Agile software teams…We iterate the entire car every 7 days, meaning that every 7 days we reevaluate each part of the car and reinvent the highest-priority aspects, instead of waiting 8 to 26 years to upgrade. 

The Wikispeed

Process

Lean Software Design: Use

less stuff

XP: Pairing and Swarming

Agile: Reducing costs

to make changes

Scrum: Clearly defined team

roles and responsibilities

TDD: start with failing tests and develop

solutions

OOP: contract-first

development

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• On ‘good days’, Flickr releases a new version every half an hour (Jun 20, 2005)

• IMVU pushes a revision of code to the website every nine minutes (Feb 10, 2009)

• The other day we passed product release number 25,000 for WordPress. That means we’ve averaged about 16 product releases a day, every day for the last four and a half years! (May 19, 2010)

• A new version of Google Chrome now due every six weeks (Jul 22, 2010)

• Facebook does code push twice a day (Aug 4, 2012)

Continuous Deployment in Consumer Internet Companies

Mister…how soon can you deliver…???

5MB Hard Drive being loaded onto plane via forklift, circa 1956.*

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Batch Flow

http://www.flowmotioncafe.com/batch-working-or-one-piece-flow/

Single-piece Flow

http://www.flowmotioncafe.com/batch-working-or-one-piece-flow/

Can your process

Do that?

What problem are we trying to solve?

http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2011/06/paving-path-scrum-adoption-product-people/

https://onlineashu.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/a-framework-for-waterfall-vs-agile-vs-lean-startup/

What is the most important part in these two machines?

“The Brakes!!!”They let you go faster…

Agility vs. Discipline?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/edge/08/feb08/lines_barnes_holmes_ambler/

Advent of Agile and Lean Methodologies

• 1970: Royce critiques Waterfall and offers improvement ideas• 1986: Barry Boehm proposes Spiral Model• 1971: Harlan Mills proposes Incremental Development • 1987: Cleanroom Software engineering• 1991: Sashimi Overlapping Waterfall Model• 1992: Crystal family of methodologies• 1994: DSDM• 1995: Scrum• 1996: Rational Unified Process framework • 1997: Feature Driven Development• 1999: Extreme Programming Explained• 2001: Agile Manifesto is born• 2003: Lean Software Development• 2005: PM Declaration of Interdependence• 2006: Behavior Driven Development• 2007: Kanban-based software engineering• 2008: Lean Startup• 2009: Scrumban• 20xx: Something new !?! (hopefully )

Waterfall vs. Agile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agile-vs-iterative-flow.jpg

Traditional vs. Agile Project Management Lifecycle

http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2006/09/planning_is_too.html

Agile Planning OnionStrategy

Portfolio

Product

Release

Iteration

Daily

http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2007/11/14/planning-a-month-or-less-ahead-is-not-enough/

Why work with small tasks?

http://agilescrum.foundationtraining.nl/img/slide-horizon.jpg

Iterative Estimation

http://www.sandywalsh.com/2011/04/iterations-and-time-boxing-are-mostly.html

Spiral Iterative

What is agile really all about?

Agile Businesses

Self-organizing x-functional

Teams

• Higher ROI• Faster time to market• Better User Experience

• Shorter feedback cycle • Manage changing priorities• Increased productivity

• Empowered individuals• Collaboration • Democratic decision-making

and transparency

feedback loop in agile lifecycles

from daily builds to project

Scrum

What’s happening here?

http://ayagebeely.blogspot.in/2008_08_01_archive.html

Feedback Loops in Traditional Techniques vs. Agile Techniques

Agile Development Value Proposition

http://www.versionone.com/Agile101/Agile_Benefits.asp

Does Agile work?

http://www.bigvisible.com/2009/12/taking-agile-beyond-faster/http://www.testingthefuture.net/page/2/

does iterating help?

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/12/12/when-do-you-throw-in-the-towel-on-your-struggling-project/

are small teams more productive?

http://drewcrawfordapps.com/2.0/the-agility-of-small-teams/

does colocation impact team performance?

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2009-summer/50412/how-to-manage-virtual-teams/

is small batch size faster?

http://www.andrejkoelewijn.com/wp/2011/06/30/is-team-productivity-a-responsibility-of-the-product-owner/

Continuous Deployment

http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/92411/Continuous-Delivery-vs-Continuous-Deployment-vs-Continuous-Integration-Wait-huh.aspx

Why?

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Basics remain the same!

What are we learning?• Software development ‘value stream’ is

highly ‘inefficient’• Lean principles can help identify ‘wastes’• Agile principles can help iterate faster• Kanban allows developing smaller batch

size• Continuous Deployment helps deploy

small changes periodically• Lean Startup principles help learn faster

References• http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2011/06/paving-pa

th-scrum-adoption-product-people/

• http://www.sandywalsh.com/2011/04/iterations-and-time-boxing-are-mostly.html

• http://www.slideshare.net/jezhumble/adopting-continuous-delivery

• http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/oreo-twitter-super-bowl/

• http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/06/why-continuous-deployment.html

• http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/92411/Continuous-Delivery-vs-Continuous-Deployment-vs-Continuous-Integration-Wait-huh.aspx

• http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr

Agile in Healthcare• http://www.cprime.com/blog/2012/07/16/agile-development-in-heal

thcare-technology-industry/

• https://www.informationweek.com/development/tools/ge-healthcare-goes-agile/228500164

• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/c914709e-8097-4537-92ef-8982fc416138/entry/agile_in_healthcare_is_possible?lang=en

• http://www.softserveinc.com/content/cs/distributed-agile-practice-for-the-healthcare-solution/

• https://ronrammage.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/agile-medical-device-software-development/

• http://www.rallydev.com/toolkits/high-assurance-environments-toolkit

• http://www.techwell.com/2012/12/how-agile-impacts-healthcare • http://www.cprime.com/blog/2012/07/16/agile-development-in-heal

thcare-technology-industry/

Tathagat Varmahttp://managewell.net