Visualizing our work requires different techniques, from Agile boards to Lean Value Streams to program coordination models.

1. Many Levels of
Work Visualization
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Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium
Owner of Gist Labs, Austin, TX, USA
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2. About me
n John Heintz
• Developer since 1995
• Agilist since 1999
• Founded Gist Labs in 2008
n Developer, Mentor, Consultant, Writer, Speaker
n Intuitive, Abstract, Precise
n I take my work seriously, not myself
The things I believe in:
Agile/Lean/Kanban, REST, Mentoring, Craftsmanship, Systems,
Emergence, InnovationGames, and Teams
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3. Work Visualization
Why this topic??
A little theory…
… and a little practice for each of:
n Personal Work
n Team Work
n Cross-Organization Work
n Collaborative Roadmapping
Closing
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4. Why visualize our work?
n Purpose requires focus,
on the right things
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5. Why visualize our work?
n See the whole,
or we’re doomed to sub-optimize
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6. Personal: Visualize Your Work!
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8. Team Work, Kanban
UX
Dev/Test
Ready
Done
Ready
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Y
Ready
Z3
InProg
Z2
Z1
Z4
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9. Kanban for Dev/Test
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10. Kanban for DevOps
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11. DevOps Pipelines
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12. Jenkins Build Pipeline Plugin
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13. Many Teams in Sequence: Value Stream Maps
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14. Cross-Organization Work, Programs
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15. Cross-Organization Work, Programs
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16. Cross-Organization Work, Programs
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17. Mapping Programs to Teams
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18. Mapping Program to Teams, more Collaboration
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19. Planning with 17 Teams
n Three month quarterly planning
n 6 sprints, 2 weeks long
n Programs and dependencies
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20. Collaborative Roadmapping
Multi-Level Roadmapping
Time Horizon (quarters to years)
Market
Map
Feature/Benefit
Map
Architecture
?
Events/Rhythms
...
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21. Roadmapping Patterns
n Bring a cross-section of org
together to plan
n Marketing/sales, Product, Arch,
Dev, Infrastructure, …
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22. Roadmapping in Practice…
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23. Terrible Road Map, but the Realizations…
“I don’t think we can do everything”, participant
“We’ve unearthed two or three strategic disconnects”, participant
“I didn’t think we were over-committed, but we are”, CEO
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24. Distributed Roadmapping?
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25. Closing
Vision
Years
Roadmap
Months
Release Plan
Sprint Plan
Weekly
Daily
Standup Meeting
Hours
Continuous Integration
Minutes
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26. Many Levels of
Work Visualization
John Heintz john@gistlabs.com @jheintz
Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium
Owner of Gist Labs, Austin, TX, USA
Lean India Summit 2013, Bangalore, India
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