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Angela Druckman

Certified Scrum Trainer

[email protected]

Agile Transformation Strategy

What does it take to become Agile?

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Overview

•Introductions

•The Changing Face of Agile

•What Does it Mean to be “Agile”?

•Adoption Phases

•What Does Transformation Look Like?

•Pitfalls and Challenges

•Questions/ Discussion


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A Bit About Us

CollabNet

CollabNet is the recognized leader in leveraging collaboration, cloud computing and Agile

training and coaching to transform the way organizations develop and deploy technology

solutions. We enable our customers to optimize technology development lifecycles,

development processes, distributed teams, and projects.

Angela Druckman, CST

Having served as a Product Owner, ScrumMaster and team member, Angela Druckman has

seen first-hand how Agile practices and Scrum in particular can lead organizations to project

success. As one of CollabNet’s Certified Scrum Trainers and a member of its Agile Thought

Leadership team, she helps organizations harness the benefits of Agile practices through

public and private courses, as well as onsite private Agile Transformation coaching.


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The Changing Face of Agile

In short, Agile has gone mainstream!

Agile used to be a “fringe” approach, but not any more. We are seeing a shift in:

•The kinds of organizations that adopt Agile

practices

•The members of the organization that start

a move to Agile

•The results organizations are hoping to get

from Agile


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The Changing Face of Agile (cont’d)

Typical Agile customer in 2005:

•Small organization (or a small part of a larger organization)

•Technology focused companies (the “bleeding edge”)

•Early pilot projects were often done in “stealth” mode

Typical Agile customer in 2011:

•All company sizes and industries – no longer the domain of

the Internet start-ups

•As likely to be a large international bank as a small internet

company

•More likely to come to CollabNet looking for a full-scale Agile

Transformation


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What Does it Mean to be “Agile”?

Being “Agile” simply means reacting quickly to every little issue that arises, right?

Wrong!

Being Agile means taking a disciplined approach to decision

making in order to make the best possible decisions with the

information known at the time.


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Agile – a Definition

“…a conceptual framework for undertaking software

engineering projects…that attempts to minimize risk by

developing software in short timeboxes, called iterations,

which typically last one to four weeks…Agile methods

also emphasize working software as the primary measure

of progress.”

--Wikipedia


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Adoption Phases

Each organization approaches the path to Agility in a slightly

unique way but there are patterns:

Non-Agile Enterprise

Exploration CoordinationProcess

Definition

Strategic

AlignmentTransformation Agile Enterprise


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Adoption Phases – What Happens When?

1. Exploration

a) pilot projects

b) training (initial)

c) practice

2. Coordination

a) training (wide scale)

b) technical best practices

c) development of internal “Agile advocates”

d) tool exploration


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Adoption Phases – cont’d

3. Process Definition

a) tools formalization

b) project management office (PMO) involvement

c) formalization of the ScrumMaster and Product Owner groups

4. Strategic Alignment

a) coordination of Agile practices within management, human resources

and other groups of the enterprise

5. Transformation

a) Agile principles and activities are internalized by the organization

Agile transformations look different across organizations but

they share a common goal: a desire to deliver more value.


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What Does Transformation Look Like?

•Case #1 – Large (90,000 employees) semi-conductor company

•Case #2 – Small (2600 employees) university in the United States

•Case #3 – Medium-Sized (12,000 employees) chemical company

In a recent Forrester report, 45% of respondents said they

were doing some form of Agile. At the top of the list with the

highest adoption rate: Scrum. Scrum is unique in its ability to

provide benefits at a workgroup, department and

organizational level.


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Pitfalls and Challenges

•Underestimating the amount of change that

needs to occur

•Ignoring the Product Organization

•Neglecting distributed teams

•Failing to make full use of the empirical

process

•Forgetting to celebrate successes

For some, the transition to Agile is harder than it needs to be. Common pitfalls include:

An experienced Agile Coach can help an organization avoid missteps !


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Agile Development in the Cloud

CollabNet is changing the way software is developed!

• Tools• Agile project management• Agile ALM • Hosted SCCM

• Training • Certified ScrumMaster• Certified Product Owner• Product training

• Coaching• On-site Agile implementation

and mentoring

www.collab.netTEL: 1-888-778-9793 Email: [email protected]

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