agile tour 2011 dublin
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Talk given athttp://at2011.agiletour.org/en/at2011_dublin.htmlTRANSCRIPT
Reality of Agile in a Multinational
Oct 2011
Who we are...
• Suzie Corbett – Business Analysis Leader
• Alan Spencer – Agile Leader
• Emmet Townsend - CTO
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Reality of Agile in a Multinational - Agenda
• Agile as it scales
• The Multinational
• Bringing Agile to the Multinational...
• Discussion
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Single Team Agile
• Stickies
• One room
• Single vision
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Co-located Multi Team Agile
• Dependencies• Complexity
• Scrum of Scrums
• More tools, planning• More documentation
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Distributed Agile
• Off site product owner• Time zones & Cultures
• Full Face to Face gone
• More Tools / process / documentation• Video Conference
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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• What do you find when you look at a Traditional Multinational Enterprise?
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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• John the Product Manager needs big up front analysis and estimates to get budget (contract)
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Tell me exactly how much you need to deliver those exact
features
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• James the business guy has historically has a lack of partnership with IT due to experience with waterfall - Vendor attitude in both directions
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Here’s what I want!
Go code it!
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• Joe the PMO lead needs governance.....
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Show me artefacts of our global SDLC gates
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• Tom, the Program Manager needs all dependencies, hardware reqs... everything
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What is my critical path?
What if someone else messes up?
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• Peter the Enterprise Architect needs large upfront designs and layers of slow sign offs etc
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What will what you deliver in 12 months look like?
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• John the Release manager is responsible for controlling what gets into production.
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What are you going to deliver, and when?
Prove it’s high quality!
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• Jean from Corporate Security needs an 8 week security audit - as per every 18 month release
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Show me the design before you start!
When you’re done – let me check it!
The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• What’s the common theme here?
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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise
• What’s the common theme here?• THE PEOPLE
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• What does it take to bring Agile to the Multinational Enterprise???
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• First - consider, again...• THE PEOPLE
– What does this mean for me?– Why change, it’s OK?– What if I fail?– I don’t know how– What will my BOSS say?– This is my silo – stay away!
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• The PEOPLE are not going to change overnight• The enterprise is not going to change overnight –
above all else – patience is required!!!
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We are NOT talking about Agile Software development!
We are talking about becoming an Agile Business
This is a journey...
Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• How to start this journey
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Senior Level Support...
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Build Relationships
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Over communicate
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Be transparent with all stakeholders
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Celebrate success
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Focus on Values – not mechanics
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Invest in Training and coaching
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise
• Focus on Automation
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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise - Summary
• It is possible!!• Be patient – this will take a while
– benefits are HUGE
• It’s about people and relationships...– Individuals and Interactions over Process and Tools
• Have FUN
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Discussion…
Suzie Corbett – [email protected] Spencer – [email protected]
Emmet Townsend – [email protected]
We’re hiring – be part of our journeyvisit us at http://www.workatdnb.ie/
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