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AGILE ADOPTIONBy Bachan Anand

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Where Do I Start with Adopting Agile?

• Education and Buy-in• Pilot – Try it Out• Reflect• Inspect & Adapt then Scale• Enterprise Agile Adoption

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•Readiness

1

•Deployment

2

•Support

3

Agile Adoption Roadmap- 3 stages

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Agile Readiness - Goals

• Understand the current state of the product

team

• Set the expectation for change

• Establish an overall strategy for the adoption

• Develop a adoption roadmap


Agile Readiness

• This phase typically lasts about one to three months.


Agile Readiness - Tasks

• Determine suitability of product

• Determine willingness of team

• Determine capability of team

• Assess engineering practices and Agile

mindset of the team



• Identify an Agile Coach

• Establish a strategy and plan for

implementing Agile

• Establish periodic progress meetings

• Establish Agile Roles & Organization



• Determine Stakeholder support

• Establish the Agile practices framework

• Consider Agile tool needs

• Focus on Agile mindset and cultural shift

• Pilot team


Agile Deployment- Goals

• Execute the Agile approach and practices

• Help the team apply them to the project


Agile Deployment

• This phase typically lasts about one to three months.


Agile Deployment- Tasks

• Provide Agile Training

• Deploy the Agile practices

• Periodic Meetings to ensure deployment is

on track and directionally correct


Agile Support- Goals

• Provide the necessary support (e.g., coaching

and mentoring) and validation

• Identify local Agile Champions


Agile Support

• This phase typically lasts about six to nine months.


Agile Support- Tasks

• Provide continued Coaching and Mentoring

• Provide In-session Validation of Practices

• Provide periodic check-in meetings to monitor

direction.


Agile Support- Tasks

• Provide periodic Agile assessments to gauge

adoption level

• Provide additional focus on tools and

automation

• Groom local Agile Champions


How can you minimize delivery risk when moving to an Agile process?

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”Lao Tzu


Even large-scale agile adoption must begin with a single agile project.


Summary

• Define your challenges– Technological as well as personal

• Set realistic expectation– Mastery is not achieved overnight


Special thanks & Content Recognition

• Agile Adoption Roadmap(Written by Mario Moreira, Agile Journal )


Pay-it-forward / Donation only trainings

1 day Agile & Scrum Training

• September 24th – Irvine• September 30th – Boston & San Diego• October 20th - Phoenix• October 21st – Denver• Nov 7th - Portland• Nov 11th – Seattle


User groups /Communities

• APLN – Agile Project Leadership Network

• Scrum Alliance – Scrum User Groups

• Online User GroupsScrum Alliance


http://groups.google.com/group/scrumalliance/?pli=1

Scrum Certifications


QUESTIONS?


Donation only 1 day Trainings• Irvine (Bachan Anand) – September 24th

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• Phoenix (Bachan Anand & Alan Dayley)– October 20th

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• Denver (Bachan Anand ) – October 21st http://agile.conscires.com/1-day-scrum-training-denver-04/


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