scaling agile – different approaches for different businesses by anders sixtensson
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Softhouse Consulting
Tel: 040 664 39 00
www.softhouse.se
Anders Sixtensson
Scaling Agile
Anders Sixtensson?
52 years. Wife, kids,
house, dog
MSc EE
Consultant, Manager,
Business Developer,
Partner,….. House
fixer, Golf player,
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What is your Current state?
• Your business/offerings
• SW products to market
• SW + HW, Internet of things,..
• Cloud - SaaS
• IT to support business
• Business critical
• ….
• Size/co-location
• Architecture/infrastructure
• Agile ”maturity”
• Budget
• ….
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Cost
Business Drivers – top-3 for you?
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Value Effectiveness Efficiency
Innovation Predictability
Quality
Value stream =
”Real Agile”
ValueEffectiveness Innovation
Definition/Description:
• Continuous delivery of value
• End-to-end value stream
collaboration
• Minimum viable product
(MVP)
Homebase:
• Small (and medium) sized
• Co-located
• Product leadership
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Value stream =
”Real Agile”
ValueEffectiveness Innovation
(some typical) Challenges:
- Continuous Delivery
- Get Business/POs in the
flow
- Get instant feedback from
Customer/Market
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Offerings =
”Product Pipelines”
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ValueEffectiveness Innovation
Definition:
• Separated value streams
with independent deliveries
• Distributed governance
• Lightweight Portfolio
management
Homebase:
• (Small and) medium sized
• Product leadership
Offerings =
”Product Pipelines”
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ValueEffectiveness Innovation
(some typical) Challenges:
- Continuous Delivery
- Architecture allowing
pipelines
- Governance/funding
- KPIs – Value rather than
Cost
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Example -telco
Size
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Cost EfficiencyPredictability
Definition/Descr:
• Huge product with several
dependencies
• Planning, visualization and
collaboration on several
levels
• Go-live is considered to be
very complicated and
expensive
Size
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Cost EfficiencyPredictability
(some typcial) Challenges:
- Continuous Delivery
- Governance
- Legacy
- Lots of people, often
vendors
Softhouse Consulting
Tel: 040 664 39 00
www.softhouse.se
There are some
Ready-to-use scaling
frameworks, but …
Progam Board
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Sprint 0.1 Sprint 0.2Sprint0.3
(IP)
Milestones/
Events
Unicorns
Dolphins
Bears
Iguanas
Blue = FeaturesRed String = A dependency requiring
stories or other dependencies to be
completed before the feature can be
completed
= Significant
Dependency
Antelope
Tarantulas
Eagles
Needs UX
HelpNeeds Sys
Arch Help
Orang
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Milestone
/ Event
PI 2 >>>
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Pink
Program Deliverables
Hint:A pink sticky is an ‘ask’. A
blue sticky fulfils it.
Only put up a blue sticky
in agreement with
whoever will deliver it.