The Continuing Adventures of Yahoo's Agile Transformation by Keith Nottonson
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Yahoo! has become the premier digital media company with the top Sports, Finance and News sites as well as top rated original video content. Yahoo's Agile journey began as a grass roots movement before the pilot program it inspired began in earnest in early 2005. This presentation will describe the ebb and flow of Yahoo's Agile adventures using previously published case studies to show where Yahoo has been, we will examine where Yahoo is today, and suggest a course for tomorrow. This experience report will include challenges and lessons learned.Presented by Keith Nottonson
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liThe Continuing Adventures of
Yahoo’s Agile Transformation
Introduction
Keith
Yahoo!
Yahoo’s Agile Story
10 Lessons Learned, Applied
Recommendations
Today & Tomorrow
Takeaways
Yahoo!
700 million unique visitors worldwide.(comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, Ocrtober 2011)
Top 3 in 20 categories globally. (comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
180 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S.(comScore Media Metrix, U.S., October 2011
Top 3 in 24categories in the U.S. (comScore Media Metrix, U.S., October 2011)
Twice as many top three properties as the nearest competitor. (comScore Media Metrix, U.S., October 2011)
# 1 in 11 categories globally. (comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
#1 in 13 categories in the U.S.(comScore Media Metrix, U.S., October 2011)
#1 personal homepage globally with 51.7 million unique visitors. (comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
371.6 million unique visitors to Yahoo! homepages worldwide.(comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
More than 13 million variations of the homepage every day. (Yahoo! internal data, August 2011)
258 million unique visitors to the Yahoo! News Network.(comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
#1 globally in News, Finance, Sports, and more.(comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide, October 2011)
Scale
Distributed
Open
Yahoo’s Agile Story
In the Beginning…
From Gabrielle Benefield’s “Rolling out Agile in a Large Enterprise”http://assets.scrumfoundation.com/downloads/6/YahooAgileRollout.pdf?1286089611
the ebb and flow
Yahoo! Video
2007 Agile Conference
High priority Bugle project
Lower priority Sprint 82 release
The board makes readily visible the variety and amount of work the team is doing and shows where this work is in the software pipeline. Now we start measuring…
Ongoing Site Up projects
identified
Swim Lanes added
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Sports
Yet Another Pilot
Q1 2011
•Sponsorship•Funding
•Socializing
Q2 2011
•Commitment•Communication
•Charter Community
Yahoo! Homepage
Q3 2011
•Executive Training•Team Workshops
•Seeding Teams
Q4 2011
•Visits•Growing
•Community
Q1 2012
•Adoption Steady State•Local Communities
•Outside Product
10 Lessons Learned, Applied
For this section we compared the 10 Lessons Learned from Gabrielle Benefield’s “Rolling out Agile in a Large Enterprise”
with what we are doing now 4 years later. http://assets.scrumfoundation.com/downloads/6/YahooAgileRollout.pdf?1286089611
Implement Solid Engineering Practices
Align with Management
Design: Find Common Ground
Align with Project Management
Coach. Don’t Dictate.
Privacy is Important
Don’t Expect Everybody to Like It
Fund the Coaching Team Adequately
Coach Deep, Not Broad
The Organization Must Also Adapt
Recommendations
Seek Expert Help
Think Globally, Act Locally
Scale Virtually
Focus on Principles
Where Yahoo is today…
…and where we are going tomorrow
Organizational Transformation
Experiment with Kanban
Lean Everything
Takeaways
(If I knew then, what I know now)
Create Space
1. Stand-ups2. Retrospectives3. Time boxes
Keep Shape
1. Automation2. Visibility3. Cadence
Style of Play
1. Transparency 2. Trust3. Flow
You have to take risks. You have to venture beyondyour comfort zone. If something does not work thefirst time, you have to try again. If one thing does notwork, you have to try something else. You have to letthem feel pain. You have to keep it fun. And youhave to keep giving energy and love, because fallingdown hurts, but learning to run is freedom.
Questions?
To learn more contact [email protected]
