Many business and IT management stakeholders see the benefit of Agile, but don't know how to integrate the practices in to their organization. How do you get status, monitor progress, and evaluate risk? Learn how business stakeholders and IT management engage with an Agile team. A core tenant of Agile is to make things big and visible. This slide deck is from our webinar where we reviewed the typical questions leadership has of a team, and compares the traditional way of answering those questions to an agile perspective. Examples from 10 years of Big Visible Charts will include: •Will I hit my target date? •Will I stay under budget? •How does this align to my IT strategy? The analyst and IT advisory firm Gartner has identified that "Increasing the use of information / analytics" is the #3 priority of CIO's globally this year. Review this deck to gain practical insights which will directly support both your business stakeholders and IT executives. We also invite you to download the replay of the event with full audio at http://pillartechnology.com/events.

1. Big Visible Charts for the
Business
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2. Agenda
• What is a Big Visible Chart
• How do they help the Business and IT
communicate
• What are the Rules for creating Big Visible
Charts
• Examples

4. SURVEY WHO ARE YOU?

6. SURVEY WILL THIS PROJECT BE
DONE ON TIME?

8. SURVEY WILL THIS PROJECT BE
DONE ON TIME?

10. Concept 1: Make it Big and Visible
• If you make a problem visible many times it
will take care of it self
– This is true at work, home, society, etc.
• A picture is worth a 1000 words
– Should Create Action
– Should Set Mood

11. Component Test Coverage
Address Service 85%
Customer Service 87%
Contract Service 22%
… 92%
… 77%

12. Component Test Coverage
Address Service 85%
Customer Service 87%
Contract Service 22% 55% 84%
… 92%
… 77%

15. Concept 2: Manage based on Data not
opinion
• If you are getting status by asking the people
doing the work you are just guessing.

16. SURVEY WITCH PROJECT IS
FURTHER ALONG?

17. HOW THEY
HELP

18. What Can they measure?
• Any question you care about
– When will development be complete?
– Am I going to stay on budget?
– When will we be in production?
– Is the business happy?

19. Are there rules?
• Keep them as simple as possible
• Collaborate
• Keep them up to date
• Resist automation (initially)
• Rarely are emails big and visible

20. Common Mistakes
• Using a Chart that answers a different than you are
asking?
• Forgetting that different people have different
questions?
• Forgetting that people’s concerns can change over
time?
• Loosing the fact that the chart is for the user not the
producer.
• Keep It Simple – reader should not need training to
read
• Bad Data = Lost Confidence / Credibility

21. Types of Big Visible Charts
• Trend Based
– Usually something over time
– Reader interprets
– Easy to create
• Status
– Usually red / Green type items
• Is the Build working
• Are we on time
– Builder/Metric Interprets
• Be sure it is right
• Inspect under the covers

22. gantt chart
22 29 April 2010

23. Practice Quality Spider Chart
PO
100%
63%
75%
CV RP
66% 50%
44%
25%
0%
65% 48%
DP IP
55%
63%
TP TE

24. Examples
• Will I hit my target date?
– Work Burn Down Chart
• Will I stay under budget?
– Budget Burn Down
• How does this align to my IT strategy?
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• Is my project adding value?
– Value Story Delivery

25. Tracking Delivery Date

26. Gantt vs. Burn Down
• Gantt Chart • Burn Down Chart
– Sequence of Tasks – Scope
– Task Length – Velocity
– Time Spent – Value Delivered
Time Spent
Value
Delivered
Task Length Velocity
Sequence Scope
of
Tasks
26 Key Difference: 29 April 2010
Burn Down measures output

27. How does it work? - Estimating Work
Verified
By Business
Complete This is the
Project
Effort
Remaining
Work
27

28. reading and interpreting a BVC –
what is the end date?
120
100 0 10 11
10
20. 5
15 15
40
80 55
18
14
60 14 15
90 13
12
40 80
65 13
51
20 37
25
0
38353 38360 38367 38374 38381 38388 38395 38402
V er i f i ed Compl et e 11 20. 5 40 55
Compl et ed Day s 0 10 15 18 15 13
A c t i v e Day s 10 15 14 14 12 13
Remai ni ng Day s 90 80 65 51 37 25
28 29 April 2010

29. You read the chart?
29 29 April 2010

30. SURVEY WHAT IS HAPPENING TO
PROJECT SCOPE?

31. Tracking Budget

32. 1200000
1000000
800000
600000 Remaining budget
Projected Remaining Spend
400000
200000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

33. 1200000
1000000
800000
600000 Remaining budget
Projected Remaining Spend
400000
200000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

34. 1200000
1000000
800000
600000 Remaining budget
Projected Remaining Spend
400000
200000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

35. Tracking Value Delivered

36. Release 1 Value Delivered
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000 Release 1 Value Delivered
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-50,000
-100,000
-150,000
-200,000

37. Release 2 Value Delivered
150000
100000
50000
0 Release 2 Value Delivered
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-50000
-100000
-150000

38. Release 3 Value Delivered
60000
40000
20000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-20000
-40000 Release 3 Value Delivered
-60000
-80000
-100000
-120000
-140000

39. Release 4 Value Delivered
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-20000
-40000
-60000
Release 4 Value Delivered
-80000
-100000
-120000
-140000

40. Multiple Consecutive Releases
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
Release 1 Value Delivered
Release 2 Value Delivered
50,000
Release 3 Value Delivered
Release 4 Value Delivered
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-50,000
-100,000
-150,000
-200,000

41. Total Value Delivered
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000 Total Value Delivered
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
-100,000
-200,000
-300,000

42. Incremental Release vs. Single Release
600,000
400,000
200,000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
One Release (all 4 Value Stories)
Value Story Based Releases
-200,000
W
h
-400,000 e
r
-600,000 e
-800,000
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