AgileLIVE – Accelerate Enterprise Agile with the Scaled Agile Framework®: Part I

Part I
May 13, 2013
Dean Leffingwell
Scaled Agile Framework Creator
Andy Powell
Product Evangelist and Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant, VersionOne

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Agenda
Leadership
Lean|Agile and Business Benefits
SAFe Core Values
 Code Quality
 Program Execution
 Alignment
 Transparency

Lean|Agile and Business
Benefits

Keeping Pace
 Our modern world runs on software. What doesn't
now, likely will soon.
 We’ve had Moore’s Law for hardware, and Moore’s
Law+ for envisioning what software could do
 But our prior development practices – waterfall, RAD,
iterative and incremental – haven’t kept pace
 Agile shows the greatest promise, but was developed
for small team environments
 We need a new approach – one that harnesses the
power of Agile and Lean – but applies to the needs of
the largest software enterprises
Our methods must keep pace with an increasingly complex world

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
The Scaled Agile Framework is a proven, publicly-facing framework
for applying Lean and Agile practices at enterprise scale
Synchronizes alignment,
collaboration and delivery
Well defined in books
and now on the web
Scales successfully to large
numbers of practitioners and
teams
Core values:
1. Code Quality
2. Program Execution
3. Alignment
4. Transparency
®
http://ScaledAgileFramework.com

Roots of the Scaled Agile Framework
Lean Thinking
Product
Development Flow
Agile Development
Field experience at
enterprise scale
Iterative and
Incremental
Development

Framework Creator: Dean Leffingwell
 Founder and CEO
ProQuo, Inc., Internet
identity
 Senior VP
Rational Software
Responsible for Rational
Unified Process (RUP) &
Promulgation of UML
 Founder/CEO
Requisite, Inc.
Makers of RequisitePro
 Founder/CEO
RELA, Inc.
Colorado MEDtech
 Creator: Scaled
Agile Framework
 Agile Enterprise
Coach
To some of the
world’s largest
enterprises
 Agile Executive Mentor
BMC, John Deere
 Chief Methodologist
Rally Software
 Cofounder/Advisor
Ping Identity, Roving Planet,
Silver Creek Systems, Rally
Software

Contributors
Principal
Contributors
Drew Jemilo
Alan Shalloway
Colin O’Neill
Community
Enterprise
Adopters
Associate
Methodologist
Acknowledgements
Alex Yakyma

Business Results
 Field Issue resolution time: down 42%
 Warranty Expense: down 50%
 Time to production: down 20%
 Time to market: 20% faster
 Employee engagement: Up 9.8%
 More responsive to market changes
and customer demands
 Development teams more engaged,
empowered
 Productivity up 20-50%
 Significantly improved Product
Management-Development teamwork
 Higher returns, reduced investments in
unfinished or unshipped work
John Deere ISG
Source: Chad Holdorf, John Deere, Intelligent Systems Group.
Dallas, Texas Presentation, Dec 2011
Source: QSM Associates Press Release, Sep, 2007

SAFe Delivers Business Results
Agile teams
average 37-50%
faster to market
− QSM research
Significant
increase in
employee
engagement
- John Deere
Our agile
programs
introduced 50%
less defects into
production
− Confidential
We experienced a
20-50% increase
in productivity
− BMC Case Study

Business Results
 Productivity has increased by at least
20-25%
 Time to market and level of quality has
increased dramatically
 Nearly zero defects after each tire store
system release
 “No additional headcount and we're
taking on more than we ever have”
March 12, 2012 News Release
“TradeStation Receives Highest Rating In
Barron’s Magazine’s Annual Ranking of
Online Brokerage Firms”
 Best Trading Experience and
Technology
 Higher star-rating than 23 other
offerings leading brokers, including
TDAmeritrade, Charles Schwab,
Fidelity, E*TRADE…
Source: Chris Chapman, Director of Product Development,
Discount Tire
Source: Keith Black, CTO and VP, Product Development,
TradeStation Technologies

Lean Thinking Provides the Tools We Need
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen

Goal: Speed, Value, Quality
THE GOAL
 Sustainably shortest lead time
 Best quality and value to people
and society
 Most customer delight, lowest
cost, high morale, safety
All we are doing is looking at the timeline,
from the moment the customer gives us
an order to the point where we collect the
cash. And we are reducing the time line by
reducing the non-value added wastes.
̶ Taiichi Ohno
We need to figure out a way to deliver
software so fast that our customers don’t
have time to change their minds.
̶ Mary Poppendieck
Most software problems will exhibit
themselves as a delay.
̶ Alan Shalloway
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen

Respect for People
 Develop individuals and teams;
they build products
 Empower teams to continuously
improve
 Build partnerships based on
trust and mutual respect
 Your customer is whoever
consumes your work
 Don’t trouble your customers
 Don't force people to do
wasteful work
 Don't overload them
 Don't make them wait
 Don't impose wishful thinking
 Equip them with problem-solving
tools
 Form long-term relationships based
on trust
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen
PEOPLE

Kaizen
BECOME RELENTLESS IN:
 Reflection
 Continuous improvement as an
entreprise value
 Steady, small improvements
 Consider all data, then implement
change rapidly
 Reflect at key milestones to identify
and improve shortcomings
 Use tools like retrospectives, root
cause analysis, and value stream
mapping
 Protect the knowledge base by
developing stable personnel and
careful succession systems
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen

Product Development Flow
1. Take an economic view
2. Actively manage queues
3. Understand and exploit
variability
4. Reduce batch sizes
5. Apply WIP constraints
6. Control flow under uncertainty:
cadence and synchronization
7. Get feedback as fast as
possible
8. Decentralize control
Reinertsen, Don. Principles of Product Development Flow
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen

Take an Economic View
Develop an economic
framework for
decision making
Empower local
decision making
Do not consider money
already spent
Understand the full
value chain
Sequence jobs for
maximum benefit
Base your decisions on economics
Cycle Time Cost
Value
Development
Expense
Risk
Adapted from: Reinertsen, Don. Principles of Product Development Flow
Decisions simultaneously affect multiple variables.
Understanding these interdependencies and
constraints is vital.

Agile Accelerates Value Delivery
4 444 :
Documents Documents Unverified Code Software

Agile Process Movement
Iterative
Processes
Spiral RAD RUP…
Agile (Adaptive)
Processes
Scrum, XP, Lean, Open UP, FDD, Crystal…
1970 1980 1990 2000
Predictive
Process
2010
Enterprise
Agility
SAFe
Enterprises
BMC Software,
TradeStation
Technologies,
John Deere,
Nokia,
Tripwire,
Mitchell
International,
Discount Tire,
Nokia Siemens
Networks,
Nordstrom,
SEI, Visa,
ValPak

Makes Money Faster
TIME
VALUEDELIVERY

Reduces Risk
Risk
Agile
Waterfall
Time
Deadline
?

Delivers Better Fit for Purpose
Time
waterfall plan, result
agile
(adaptive) plan, result
Measure of
waterfall customer
dissatisfaction

SAFe Core Values

Agile Teams
 Empowered, self-organizing, self-managing teams with
developers, testers, and content authority
 Teams deliver valuable, fully-tested software increments every
two weeks
 Teams apply Scrum project management practices and XP
technical practices
 Teams operate under program vision, system, architecture and
user experience guidance
 Value description via User Stories

Code Quality
You can’t scale crappy code
Agile
Architecture
Continuous
Integration
Test-First
Refactoring
Pair Work
Collective
Ownership
Code Quality Provides:
 Higher quality products and
services, customer
satisfaction
 Predictability and integrity of
software development
 Development scalability
 Higher development velocity,
system performance and
business agility
 Ability to innovate

Scale to the Program Level
 Common sprint lengths and normalized velocity
 Face-to-face planning cadence provides development
collaboration, alignment, synchronization, and assessment
 Value description via Features and Benefits
 Self-organizing, self-managing team-of-agile-teams committed
to continuous value delivery
 Continuously aligned to a common mission around enterprise
value streams
 Deliver fully tested, system-level solutions every 8-12 weeks.

Develop on Cadence. Deliver on Demand.
Development occurs on a fixed cadence. The business decides when
value is released.
Deliver on Demand
Major
Release Customer
Upgrade
Customer
Preview
Major
Release New
Feature
Develop on Cadence
PSI PSI PSI PSI PSI

Program Execution
Agile Release Trains – self-organizing teams of agile teams – reliably
and frequently deliver enterprise value
 Driven by Vision and
Roadmap
 Lean, economic
prioritization
 Frequent, quality
deliveries
 Fast customer feedback
 Fixed, reliable cadence
 Regular Inspect and
Adapt drives continuous
improvement

Scale to the Portfolio
 Centralized strategy, decentralized execution
 Investment themes provide operating budgets for release trains
 Business and architectural epic kanban systems provide visibility
and work-in-process limits for product development flow
 Enterprise architecture is a first class citizen
 Objective metrics support governance and kaizen
 Value description via Business and Architectural Epics

Alignment
Alignment from Portfolio to Program to Team
 Clear content authority
 Face-to-face planning
 Aligned Team, Program
and Business Owner
objectives
 Cross-team and cross-
program coordination
 Architecture and UX
guidance
 Match demand to
throughput
Alignment
Business
Owners

Program Portfolio Management
SAFe patterns provide a transformational roadmap
#1 Centralized control Decentralized decision-making
#2 Project overload Continuous value flow
#3 Detailed project plans Lightweight business cases
#4 Centralized annual planning Decentralized, rolling-wave planning
#5 Work Breakdown Structure Agile estimating and planning
#6 Project-based funding Agile Release Trains
#7 Projects and PMBOK Self-managing teams and programs
#8 Waterfall milestones
Objective, fact-based measures and
milestones
Legacy PPM Agile PPM

Agile Program Portfolio Management
Agile Program Portfolio Management fulfills key responsibilities
 Agile estimating and
planning
 Agile Release Trains
 Agile Program
Management
 Decentralized decision-
making
 Continuous value flow
 Lightweight business
cases
 Decentralized, rolling-
wave planning
 Objective, fact-
based measures
and milestones

Transparency
Transparency builds confidence, alignment and trust
 All backlogs and
progress visible to all
stakeholders
 Objective reporting
based on working,
tested, evaluated code
 Everyone understands
backlog, capacity,
velocity, WIP
 Management leads
and fosters open
environment
Transparency

Leadership

Foundation: Leadership
 Management understands and
teaches lean and agile behaviors
 Management is trained in practices
and tools of continuous improvement
 Management takes responsibility for
Lean|Agile success
 Management teaches employees
problem solving and corrective
action
 Managers are expected to see with
their own eyes
 Managers develop people. People
develop solutions.
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen
Lean-Thinking Manager-
Teachers
 Management is trained in
lean thinking
 Bases decisions on this
long term philosophy

Next Steps
 Browse the framework
 Read the book
 Build your expertise with training
and certification
 Accelerate value delivery with
your first Agile Release Train
 Get help from the experts at
Scaled Agile and Scaled Agile
Partners
 Join the community
Become a SAFe
Lean Thinking
Manager-Teacher
Launch Agile
Release Trains
Leverage the
Community

Conclusion
 The foundation of Lean
is leadership
 The foundation of SAFe
is you

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