CMMI and Agile introductory tutorial.

1. Portugal
Foundations for Organizational Agility
Ana Paula Pereira
Advisor 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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7. 468 pages? That’s not Agile !
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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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12. Goals are satisfied by collecting
objective evidence that the
corresponding CMMI practices
are implemented.
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13. 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
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15. CMMI Agile: The Method Gathering Game
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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 Gathering Game
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 card 16
For each practice card found, make a circle in the scorecard
The team that scores more points wins this Mission

17. CMMI Agile Method Gathering Scoreboard
Team Members:
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Mission 1:
Mission 2:
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Specific Practices
Points 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 4
2
4
3
PP/1
11 4
3
1
3
PP/2
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PP/3
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PMC/1
PMC/2
29 6
6
23 5
MA/2
18 6
CM/2
3
3
3
6
PPQA/2
11 5
9
4
1
1
4
4
5
8
7
1
6
5
3
3
5
3
5
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PPQA/1
5
5
2
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CM/3
5
5
3
13
CM/1
4
1
8
MA/1
4
6
2
4
6
7
2
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CMMI Agile: The Gathering Game
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)
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The Team with bigger green practice implementation score
wins this mission

19. CMMI Agile Method Gathering Scoreboard
Team Members:
25
Mission 1:
Mission 2: 11
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Specific Practices
Points 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 4
2
4
3
PP/1
11 4
3
1
3
PP/2
26
PP/3
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PMC/1
PMC/2
29 6
6
23 5
MA/2
18 6
CM/2
3
3
3
6
PPQA/2
11 5
9
4
1
1
4
4
5
8
7
1
6
5
3
3
5
3
5
11
PPQA/1
5
5
2
10
CM/3
5
5
3
13
CM/1
4
1
8
MA/1
4
6
2
4
6
7
2
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20. I still don’t get how this helps to scale agile...
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21. Process improvement is a journey....
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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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22. When all practices are fully or largely
implemented your processes are performed,
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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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24. Generic practices help organizations on the
path to agility!
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Stakeholder
Involvement
Scrum
Training &
Assessment
Roles
Status Review
&
Retrospective
Portfolio
Metrics
Practice
Appraisals
Plan
Processes
Practice
Kanban
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Discover how it works for your organization
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26. Foundations for Organizational Agility
Ana Paula Pereira
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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.
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