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Agile Lean Transformation

November 2012 – Openet Engineering

Gail Park and Glen Lockhart

gail.park@openet.com / glen.lockhart@openet.com

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The Openet Agile/Lean approach…

VP Support & Resource

Analysis & Goals

Research & Development

Site Visits & WAR games

Enterprise Ireland

Incremental Changes

Pilot of ScrumBan

Continuous Improvement

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Goals

Product Quality & Delivery efficiency.

Lean approach.

Increase backlog agility – JIT decision

making.

Shorten our release cycle times.

Fail Fast.

Enable growth

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3 Major Changes

Feature Teams

ScrumBan & “Done”

Work Packages

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Feature Teams

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Feature Teams

Self organising atomic units

Work assigned to team, not people

Long lived (12-18 months)

Generalising specialists

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More on Feature Teams

1 Feature Lead to run the team

Generally

~4 developers

~2 QA

~1 Performance Engineer

Assigned true specialists on an ad-hoc basis

Co-located

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Feature Team Structure

Feature Lead

Perf. Engineer

(1)

Developers

(3)

Test Engineers

(2)

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Scaling Feature teams

Architect(s),

Tech Writer(s),

Trainer(s), Tech

Mentor(s), etc.

PMO

VP, Delivery

Architect(s),

Tech Writer(s),

Trainer(s), Tech

Mentor(s), etc.

PMO

FT

FT

FT

Strategic Program #1

FT

FT

FT

Architect(s),

Tech Writer(s),

Trainer(s), Tech

Mentor(s), etc.

PMO

FT

FT

FT

Strategic Program #2

FT

FT

FT

Architect(s),

Tech Writer(s),

Trainer(s), Tech

Mentor(s)

PMO

FT

FT

FT

Strategic Program #n

FT

FT

FT FT

FT

FT

FT

FT

FT

Tactical Program

Trainer(s)

Training Delivery Program

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ScrumBan

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Definition of “Done”

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Automated Testing

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Using ScrumBan/Kanban to get to “Done”

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Definition of “Done Done”

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Delivery Lifecycle

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Product Release Cycle

Backlog Grooming

Ready for Implementation

Work Package implementation

Closeout

Engineering Release

Commercial GA

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Work Package Implementation

Pre-Planning / Grooming

Planning

Estimation

Estimation Review Implementation

Acceptance

Retrospective

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Benefits

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Agility

woof woof

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Performance Testing

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Quality

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Product Releases

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Collaboration

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Challenges

Coordination & Roll out

Education & mind-set changes

Resistance to Change

Communications

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Challenges

User Stories & Acceptance Criteria

Breaking things down to small sizes

Estimation

Distributed Teams harder

Project Management Metrics

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Questions?