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Foundations for Organizational Agility

Ana Paula PereiraAdvisor on Lean and Agile Development

Whatever Consulting Group

2013-10-17

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Agile is the path to Discovery

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But what is to path to Agility?

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What can guide us in scaling agile ?

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One way is to follow the Agility Path © Scrum.org

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Why not applying the CMMI?

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468 pages? That’s not Agile !

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“Working software over comprehensive documentation”

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Cards are Agile !

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So I made my own deck of Method Gathering cards to introduce CMMI to agile teams

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Teams learn that the CMMI has no Processes to follow, only Areas for improvement!

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CMMI is a Model, not a process:Teams "just" have to prove that their processes (agile or not) satisfy the CMMI Goals for each area

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Goals are satisfied by collecting objective evidence that the corresponding CMMI practices are implemented.

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Those CMMI practices can be implemented with Agile Practices. Mapping Cards help agile teams to understand how, by speaking their language

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Let’s Play

Story:

You have beed selected to be part of a CMMI Appraisal team.

Your team has to collect objective evidence that agile projects carried out in your organization are satisfying the Specific Goals for Process Areas in CMMI Maturity Level 2

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CMMI Agile: The Method Gathering Game

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Mission 1: Identify the specific practices that are expected to be performed for each goal

Objective:Organize the materials for the appraisal

Hints:Card numbering conventions - PA/Goal#.Practice#All cards from the same PA have a common color

Rules:Stack each practice card with the corresponding goal cardFor each practice card found, make a circle in the scorecardThe team that scores more points wins this Mission

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CMMI Agile: The Gathering Game

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CMMI Agile Method Gathering ScoreboardTeam Members:Mission 1: 25 Mission 2:

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Points

Specific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific Practices

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2 3.3

REQM/1 17

PP/1 11

PP/2 26

PP/3 7

PMC/1 29

PMC/2 8

MA/1 23

MA/2 13

CM/1 18

CM/2 10

CM/3 11

PPQA/1 11

PPQA/2 9

4 2 4 3 4

4 3 1 3

6 4 5 5 4 1 1

1 1 5

6 3 3 3 3 6 5

2 3 3

5 5 7 6

3 4 4 2

6 8 4

5 5

5 6

5 6

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Mission 2: Find cards with agile practice implementation indicators for each specific practice identified in the previous mission

Objective:Perform a preliminary gap analysis and present results

Rules:Fill the circle in the scorecard:

with green if you have found all the agile matching cards with yellow if you have found just some matching cards with red if you did not find a matching card (or do not agree with the content provided)

The Team with bigger green practice implementation score wins this mission

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CMMI Agile: The Gathering Game

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CMMI Agile Method Gathering ScoreboardTeam Members:Mission 1: 25 Mission 2: 11

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Points

Specific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific PracticesSpecific Practices

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2 3.3

REQM/1 17

PP/1 11

PP/2 26

PP/3 7

PMC/1 29

PMC/2 8

MA/1 23

MA/2 13

CM/1 18

CM/2 10

CM/3 11

PPQA/1 11

PPQA/2 9

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4 3 1 3

6 4 5 5 4 1 1

1 1 5

6 3 3 3 3 6 5

2 3 3

5 5 7 6

3 4 4 2

6 8 4

5 5

5 6

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I still don’t get how this helps to scale agile...

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Process improvement is a journey....

do it within project:

the project can be managed in a agile way also .. use a practice kanban to visualize progress

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When all practices are fully or largely implemented your processes are performed,

but institutionalization needs more ....

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You need to implement Generic Practices to satisfy the Institutionalization Goal in Level 2

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Generic practices help organizations on the path to agility!

Plan Processes

Status Review & Retrospective

Stakeholder Involvement

Roles

Scrum Training & Assessment

Portfolio Metrics

Practice Appraisals

Practice Kanban

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Discover how it works for your organization

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Foundations for Organizational Agility Ana Paula Pereira apereira@whatever.pt

Organizations that are attempting to become more effective and more agile start by implementing Scrum but struggle with scaling it enterprise-wide.

CMMI could be a way to help organizations to institutionalize scrum but seems too complex to agile practitioners. This session teaches how to create agile tools that help teams to understand the model and make good use of it, developing a foundation for organizations on the path to agility.