Sprinting to Success: The Agile Transformation at Lifesize
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Sprinting to Success The Agile Transformation at Lifesize AMY WILLIAMS | DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING DELIVERY | LIFESIZE HOLLY TOMPKINS | ENTERPRISE ADVOCATE | ATLASSIAN
Transcript of Sprinting to Success: The Agile Transformation at Lifesize
Sprinting to SuccessThe Agile Transformation at Lifesize
AMY WILLIAMS | DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING DELIVERY | LIFESIZE
HOLLY TOMPKINS | ENTERPRISE ADVOCATE | ATLASSIAN
Meet Amy & Holly
INTRODUCTION
YOU can make a difference in driving your culture!
ACT WITH INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY
Journey to sprinting to success at Lifesize
MAKE EVERY DAY MATTER
Why Transform?
The Challenge
The ChallengeLean engineering organization with agile business priorities to support market demands
Lack of transparency and viewed as under-delivering without understanding root cause
Why Transform?
Getting Started
Getting Started1. Educational awareness – the why and guidelines for how to operate
2. Picked a team who was willing and able –Proof of Concept
3. Light coaching – you want the team to learn in retrospectives versus always telling them the ‘got-cha’s’
TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE
1st Team Started Practicing
Next Team Started
5 Teams Transformed
All 8 Teams Transformed
Scaling Agile. Program
Increments Started
Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Summer 2016 Spring 2017 Spring 2017
First Quarterly Program Increment
Completed
Summer 2017
Why Transform?
Now Go!
Now Go!3 to 5 sprints completed: Transparency, Collaboration, Communication!
After PoC scrum team was moving along –picked another team who was excited
Focus on the end goal - Scale!
SPRINT SCHEDULE IN CONFLUENCE
MOBILE SCRUM TEAM: TRANSPARENCY USING METRICS IN JIRA
MOBILE SCRUM TEAM: RELEASE BURNDOWN EXAMPLE IN JIRA
TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE
1st Team Started Practicing
Next Team Started
5 Teams Transformed
All 8 Teams Transformed
Scaling Agile. Program
Increments Started
Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Summer 2016 Spring 2017 Spring 2017
First Quarterly Program Increment
Completed
Summer 2017
Checkpoint: Keep Going
Why Tranform?
Keep Going
Keep GoingAll hands meeting: retrospective of scrum transformation of first 5 teams
Influence without authority
Inflection point: Leadership committed to Agile
Continuous improvement
SCALING TO SUCCESS
TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE
1st Team Started Practicing
Next Team Started
5 Teams Transformed
All 8 Teams Transformed
Scaling Agile -Program
Increments Started
Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Summer 2016 Spring 2017 Spring 2017
First Quarterly Program Increment
Completed
Summer 2017
1st PI Planning (Q2)
PLANNING INITIATIVES AT PROGRAM INCREMENT PLANNING
TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE
1st Team Started Practicing
Next Team Started
5 Teams Transformed
All 8 Teams Transformed
Scaling Agile. Program
Increments Started
Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Summer 2016 Spring 2017 Spring 2017
First Quarterly Program Increment
Completed
Summer 2017
Atlassian’s Team Playbookswww.atlassian.com/team-playbook
Exercises to turn any sick
areas into healthy ones
Process for rating team
health against 8 attributes
HEALTH MONITORS PLAYS
Health Monitor
Set the stage
Rate attributes
Discuss ratings
Agree on focus areas
Run plays
5 “Whys” Analysis PlayTools: White board, sticky notes, colored dots
Duration: 25 minutes Why? Useful for root cause exploration
www.atlassian.com/team-playbook
Be Flexible Within Your Boundaries
Key Takeaways
Influence Without Authority
Get Started
Thank You
AMY WILLIAMS | DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING DELIVERY | LIFESIZE
HOLLY TOMPKINS | ENTERPRISE ADVOCATE | ATLASSIAN
