Agile Transformation at Scale

Learn more about the scaled Agile Framework + scaling Agile. After a short introduction to several frameworks that aim to support the scaling of Agile (DAD, LeSS, SAFe®), this power point presentation from our webinar dives deeper into the details of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). Find the truth behind the often cited sentence “As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe® is to the Agile enterprise.”

The goal of any enterprise agile adoption strategy is NOT to adopt agile. Companies adopt agile to achieve better business outcomes. Large organizations have no time for dogma and one-size-fits-all thinking when it comes to introducing agile practices. These companies need pragmatic guidance for safely and incrementally introducing structure, principles, and ultimately practices that will result in greater long term, sustainable business results. This talk will introduce a framework for safely, pragmatically, and incrementally introducing agile to help you achieve your business goals.

This document discusses transforming organizations to agile practices. It begins by outlining common goals for going agile such as predictability, quality, and innovation. It then discusses considerations for transformation based on organization size and dependencies. The key aspects for transformation are identified as backlogs, teams, and working tested software. Governance structures, metrics, and teaming strategies are also discussed. Transformation is framed as a journey, and quadrants are used to illustrate where organizations are currently and where they aim to go.

Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn’t about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it’s about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it’s about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, achieving business agility requires significant organizational change. Agile transformation necessitates a fundamental rethinking of how your company organizes for delivery, how it delivers value to its customers, and how it plans and measures outcomes. Agile transformation is about building enabling structures, aligning the flow of work, and measuring for outcomes based progress. It's about breaking dependencies. The reality is that this kind of change can only be led from the top. This talk will explore how executives can define an idealized end-state for the transformation, build a fiscally responsible iterative and incremental plan to realize that end-state, as well as techniques for tracking progress and managing change.

Why transform to Agile? What are the impediments to Agile Transformation? How to plan the Agile transformation? How to accelerate and sustain the Agile Transformation.

Agile Transformation is a consulting firm that specializes in organizational transformation using Agile, Lean, and other methods. They help clients transform their processes, teams, and culture to improve performance. Their services include assessing needs, developing custom roadmaps, coaching teams in Agile practices, and training leaders in skills like servant leadership and collaboration. Clients praise how Agile Transformation helped them successfully transform their culture, empower teams, and bridge gaps between departments.

Presented by Mr Lee Chee Yong, Agile Practice Lead of NCS Agile Competency Centre at ISS Seminar - Agile Software Development: Swift and the Shift on 18 July 2014.

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile framework for enterprise-scale organizations. It addresses challenges of architecture, integration, funding, and roles at scale. SAFe has three levels - portfolio, program, and team. At the portfolio level, investment themes drive budget allocations. The program level uses Agile Release Trains of 5-10 teams to deliver value in 10 week iterations. Teams use Scrum or Kanban with 2 week iterations. SAFe aims to apply lean-agile principles at an enterprise scale.

The document describes a large scale agile transformation at a global retailer. It discusses why the transformation was undertaken due to issues like long development times and quality problems. It then details how the transformation was implemented over several phases, including piloting agile practices, establishing agile roles and processes, and ongoing improvements. The transformation was considered successful, leading to benefits like reduced time to market, increased innovation, and becoming an employer of choice. The lesson learned is that organizations should understand their reasons for transforming before embarking on the journey.

When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. This talk will illustrate how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary. We will demonstrate the use of governance that allows a more adaptive portfolio management approach. We will cover topics that enable agile portfolio management including: Lean techniques for managing flow Effective prioritization techniques Long range road-mapping Demand management and planning Progressively elaborated business cases Validation of outcomes Support for audit and compliance needs These topics will be illustrated by real-world examples of portfolio management that have been proven over the last five years with a wide range of clients.

Presentation to OU Agile special interest group 25 January 2017. Agile basics, Agile myths, and stories of breakthroughs and breakdowns in Agile adoption in learning design and course production.

This is a brief introduction to Scaled Agile Framework - covers about some of the other Scaling approaches

This document discusses the agile mindset and contrasts it with the traditional waterfall mindset. It defines mindset as a person's way of thinking and opinions. The agile mindset values individuals and interactions, customer collaboration, responding to change, and valuing working software over documentation. It also discusses agile principles, practices like Scrum and Kanban, and the differences between doing agile and having an agile mindset. The document contrasts fixed and growth mindsets and provides indicators of an agile mindset at both the team and organizational levels. It also discusses common agile pitfalls and provides resources for further reading.

The document provides an introduction to agile methods for executives. It discusses how agile approaches can help organizations adapt to increasingly volatile business environments. The key benefits of agile include shorter time to market, increased productivity, improved alignment with business needs, and greater predictability. The document outlines agile concepts like iterative development, minimal viable products, continuous delivery and focus on customer value. It also summarizes common agile frameworks like Scrum and how agility can be scaled in large organizations.

Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (SAFe 3.0) - Scaled: SAFe is designed for large-scale software development ecosystems of 50-125 people who need to resolve inter-dependencies - Agile: SAFe is based on 9 Lean-Agile principles - Framework: SAFe is a collection of a proven efficacy tools, and you only have to use what you need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysQQx7pQzg El objetivo de la Lightning Talk es dar una visión "light" pero completa de lo que propone Scaled Agile Framework 3.0 como marco de referencia para el escalado de Agile. Scaled Agile Framework es uno de los marcos de referencia para escalado de Agile que mayor aceptación está teniendo a día de hoy, sobre todo cuando hablamos de grandes organizaciones. El marco SAFe parte de las capas de abstracción clásicas de una organización para estructurar un cambio de perspectiva y de cultura basándose en los 4 valores y 9 principios Lean-Agile, apoyándose además en las prácticas Scrum-XP de desarrollo de productos. En la charla descubriremos de manera rápida los roles, artefactos y ceremonias que plantea el marco para conseguir un cambio de paradigma sostenible en las organizaciones. Unai Roldán UST Global

This document provides an overview of agile methodology for software development. It discusses how agile practices arose in response to the limitations of traditional waterfall approaches. The core principles of agile include valuing individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Agile methods embrace changing requirements, frequent delivery of working software, collaboration between business and technical teams, self-organizing teams, and continuous improvement.

To compete in today’s application economy, organizations have adopted agile execution techniques. But is that enough? Learn about SAFe and how to leverage this methodology to elevate your agile teams to deliver quality outcomes and align at the enterprise level. For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

Management is dead, at least traditional management is. No need to tell you what’s wrong with traditional management, you’ve probably experienced it yourself. And the results are outrageous, be it at company level, team level, and individual level; downright from project failures to complete demotivation of the staff. Managers need to evolve, or they simply won’t survive if they don’t bring solutions to the above problems. From traditional management to … Agile management and leadership. You, as an experienced manager or as a wannabe/junior manager, are in a key position to change this. By attending this 60-minutes talk, you’ll (re-)discover proven and actionable techniques to improve your management skills, foster team productivity, and keep morale and motivation atop. Yes, success is that close ;-)

On October 13, 2016, Tom Haak of the HR Trend Institute gave a keynote at "HR on the Move 2016", organised by AOG School of Management. This is the pack of slides he used.

The agile manifesto introduced a new way of implementing software development projects which resulted in a dramatic improvement in these types of projects. Agile success at the project level has prompted IT leaders within organization to try to scale it to the enterprise level with less success rate. In this interactive session, we will review the various approaches to large-scale agile transformation, discuss the transformation road map and organizational change management required as well as key drivers/sponsors required for a successful agile transformation. We will discuss how to measure transformation progress, and outline possible challenges and corresponding solutions.

The PPT is about scaling agile across various non-cross-functional teams and the various experiments that were done before arriving at a methodology that worked for the teams.

Are you ready to maximize the impact of delivering in an agile framework across your organization, yet challenged by scaling agile beyond the team level to the program and portfolio levels? Transforming a larger organization to agile requires deliberate change and coordination. While there are frameworks developing, such as the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe™), the solutions to your specific organization challenges may look different. Attend this 2-part webinar series for insights into what you need to know to take agile to the next level! Part 1: Join SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein and Agile Coaches Dave Gunther and Mike McLaughlin, who will explore the five key questions organizations need to consider when scaling agile to the program and portfolio levels including: • How should we organize? • How will we communicate? • How, what and where will we prioritize? • How can we facilitate decisions & plan effectively? • How can we deliver predictably at scale?

After we finally seem to have settled the agile wars, between XP, Scrum and Kanban, the market now starts to flood with enterprise agile frameworks, such as SAFe, DAD and Agility Path. However, many organizations are still struggling with how to implement agile, even in straightforward projects. During this vivid talk Sander Hoogendoorn, independent agile mentor, software architect and developer, will share his years of experiences in implementing agile principles and techniques in organizations, from the ground up, one step at the time. Sander does not shy away from criticizing agile – especially enterprise agile – and will go through a series of anti-patterns, pitfalls and roadblocks organizations encounter when moving towards agile, Scrum and Kanban. He also shows how to get around them, illustrated with many real-life and examples, and how to implement agile in baby steps.

We are in the age where lot of traditional business are building software that are truly disruptive and they have started to embrace agile. Many fail to realise the importance of scaling their analysis practices, to successfully plan and shape their portfolio. Previously working as an Agile Transformation Consultant, and taking part in delivery of products for large enterprises, this talk is about practical techniques that enterprises can take away to increase their organization agilty

Présentation effectuée par Charles-André Bouchard, dans le cadre du cours LOG3000 conduit par Mathieu Lavallée, à Polytechnique, mardi le 22 novembre 2016.

The document discusses how to prioritize business capabilities and system development to maximize business value. It recommends establishing the business value of each work item, prioritizing based on return on investment, and measuring business value delivery over time. It also suggests mapping business capabilities to system capabilities and identifying minimum releasable features to structure development and releases around delivering business value.

Agile Everywhere! ​ Henrik Kniberg talks about how his journey implementing agile & lean methods at Spotify and Lego helped him apply agility in new & unexpected fields. Henrik will share his vision on how agility may evolve in the future and affect various areas of our lives. About Henrik Kniberg Henrik Kniberg is an Agile/Lean coach at Crisp in Stockholm, working primarily with Lego and Spotify. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development. During the past 15 years he has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with Agile and Lean software development. Henrik is former board member of the Agile Alliance and works regularly with Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland, and other thought leaders. He is the author of “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” and “­Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both” and “Lean from the Trenches“. These books are available in over 12 languages, have over 500,000 readers, and are used as primary guide to Agile and Lean software development by hundreds of companies worldwide.­ Henrik also created the viral animated videos “Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell” and “Spotify Engineering Culture“.

When more than 10 people are needed to reach a goal multiple agile teams are needed. These teams have to coordinate - we have to scale agile. There are several blueprints for scaling agile. This session argues that using a blueprint is premature optimization. When looking at successful agile companies one thing becomes clear: they didn't follow a blueprint but implemented unique structures and processes. Every company is unique and needs unique structures and processes matching its purpose. In this talk Stefan presents the Agile Scaling Cycle, an organic approach to find and optimize scaling structures appropriate for the company.

As more organizations begin to adopt agile on multiple, interdependent teams, how do we ensure that the success within a team can translate to success at the enterprise level? Presented by: Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed

PO vs PM, How to scale Product Ownership within a large enterprise and move traditional BAs into Product Owners.

My keynote talk on "Scaling and Sustaining Agility" at the Continous Delivery day meetup organized by Societe Generale in Bangalore, Oct 5

This document discusses how leadership is the pivotal factor for scaling agile practices within organizations. It argues that prioritizing agile practices over principles is a key hurdle to achieving agility at scale. True agility requires influencing organizational culture towards agile values through visionary leadership. Leaders must scale their approach from tactical to strategic and participatory to demonstrate cultural change, provide a safe environment, and align people towards a shared vision. The pivot for achieving agility beyond the team level and throughout an organization lies in developing adaptive leadership.

Discusses some of the issues involved in scaling agile methods for large systems engineering. Accompanies YouTube video atL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuK46hw3CyI