being agile: delivering value to your customers

Being Agile: Delivering Value to your Customers

 Stacy Gordon, Agile Coach  stacy.gordon@salesforce.com

Dreamforce 2015

Adaptive Delivery Methodology (ADM) is an Agile discipline and culture that is specific to Salesforce

It’s foundation is built upon Lean principles, employs Scrum and Kanban frameworks, and adopts

certain Extreme Programming practices.

350+ teams

Predictable delivery across infrastructure

and products

Strong leadership commitment to Lean-Agile principles and

practices

Internal coaches supporting 3500+

engineers

Why Agile?

ADM Coaching Team

Kelly Currier Director Agile Delivery

Stacy Gordon Agile Coach, Director

Nicole Buckberg Agile Coach, Director

Adib Yassine Agile Coach, Sr. Manager

Just Hired!

Just Hired!

Nick McDuffie

Agile Coach, Sr. Manager Tamsen Mitchell

Agile Coach, Sr. Manager

 Self select a area of interest

 Gather topics

 Sort and prioritize

 Discuss!

 Share what you learned #BeingAgile

The Next 40 Minutes…

Agile Planning Getting Teams to Deliver Agile Basics Agile at Scale

Big picture to execution

Values, prioritization and

story best practices

Scrum, Kanban, principles, roles and meetings

What does it look like?

How?

1.  Set up 3 column kanban (Discuss, Discussing, Discussed)

2.  Gather what to discuss (one idea per sticky)

3.  Vote (each person gets 2 votes)

4.  Talk (starting with highest ranked item, 2-3 min per topic)

A structured, but agenda-less meeting. Agenda is created on the fly and democratically

Lean Coffee

http://leancoffee.org/

 What practices are you going to keep doing on your team?

 What are you going to encourage your team to stop doing?

 What new suggestion are you going to take to your team?

Individual reflection…

Thank you