Streamlining of an OrganisationScrum with multiple teams

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Initial Situation

What are my people working at?

Orientation

When will the next features be delivered?

Which features will that be?

Delivery

Why isn’t that feature ready yet?

Delay

Why do I get deceptive answers?

Deception

“Us” and “Them”

Teams

iOS Android

Server Billing & Monitoring

Website

Release Timeline

iOS AndroidServer

Billing & MonitoringWebsite

Idea to Product - so far

Grab a developer who’s not fast enough to escape

ToDo (2) WIP (4) Deploy (8)Backlog

Kanban

Are we doing the right thing?

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Experiment

Small Feature

Prototype Team

iOS Android ServerBilling & Moni-toring

Hybrid

Co-location

Scrum Basics Workshop

Scrum by the Book

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

“We have never been that fast”

probably because we planned for the first time

“IT delivered promised scope in time”

this has never happened before!

“I want all other engineers work in Scrum teams

from next week”

CEO Approval

Don’t be hasty

Let it grow

Switch whole IT to Scrum

Teams (Wishful Thinking)

iOS Android

Server Billing & Monitoring

Website

iOS Android

Server Billing & Monitoring

Website

iOS Android

Server Billing & Monitoring

Website

Issue: Skills

Teams (Reality)

iOS Android

Server Billing & Monitoring

iOS Android

Server

Billing & Monitoring

Website

Team Identity

Issue: IT-Head

Issue: Adhoc-Tasks

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Product Decision Process

Idea to Product - first try

Company Backlog

Idea Backlog

Scrum Teams

CompanyStrategy

Entries need to be- decided- prepared- prioritized

pull

pull

pull

pull

ProductCircle

Members- CEO- CMO- CTO- Head of Product

Tasks- decide follow up (idea)- ask biz for preparation- Give rough estimate (S-XL)- Move to Company backlog- Prioritize within CB

meets once a week

Idea to Product - currently

Company Backlog

Scrum Teams

CompanyStrategy

Entries need to be- decided- prepared- prioritized

pull

pull

pull

pull

ProductCircle

Members- Head of Product- POs- Marketing

Tasks- decide follow up- Get estimate (S-XL)- Create Epic- Prioritize Epic (with Mgmt)

meets once a week

Head ofProduct

Prepare

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Release Heartbeat

Reliable Releasedates

Sprint 1

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint 1

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint 1

Sprint2

Sprint3

GreenRelease Yellow

Release

RedRelease

Synchronize Teams

SprintPlanning

Team 1

...

One overall, feature-

based review

with the whole

company

SprintPlanning

Team 2

SprintPlanning

Team n

Release Plan

Release Matrix - First Try

Company Backlog

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Team 4

Team 5

Sprint1

Sprint1

Sprint1

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint2

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint3

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Release Matrix - first try

Company Backlog

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Epic

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Team 4

Team 5

Sprint1

Sprint1

Sprint1

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint2

Sprint2

Sprint3

Sprint3

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Adressing Bugs

Bug Smashing Sprint

Daily Bug Standup

Agenda

Initital Situation

Experiment

Analyze & Change

Product Decision Process

Heartbeat

Bugs

Next steps

Next Steps

Quality

PO-Empowerment

Marketing & Sales Integration

Product Teams

Billing & Monitoring

iOS Android

Server

Website

iOS Android

Server

Online Product

Sven RöpstorffAgile Project Manager & Coach

Email: sven.roepstorff@transment.comTwitter: @oedel

Agile Lean Europe (ALE)

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