agile india 2014: the enterprise experiment!

The Enterprise Experiment

Mike Pollard & Simon Reason

HypothesisAs we scale, then the simple theories applied to a

single team will remain the same across the Enterprise.

Team Features Built features

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Hypothesis

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.- Thomas Henry Huxley

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”― Claude Lévi-Strauss

As we scale, then the simple theories applied to a single team will remain the same across the

Enterprise.

Our Theory

Let the Right one in!!

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Golf course to CashIdea -> Build -> Release

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From Pot to PotBut which Pot?

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One team

One team ---> One Project

Feature B

Feature B

Feature A

Feature A

Feature A

Feature B

Feature C

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Project A

Project B

Project C

One BacklogLarge Item Backlog

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Feature BFeature B

Feature C

Project D

Project E

Project F

De-couple teams from Large Projects Multiple teams

Think Small

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Experiment FindingsAs we scale, then the simple theories applied to a

single team will remain the same across the Enterprise.

Thanks for Experimenting!

Mike Pollard & Simon Reason