This document discusses how IT agility can help businesses adapt to an uncertain environment characterized by changing customer habits, regulations, and markets. It argues that IT was traditionally designed to support predictability but now must support uncertainty through traits like adapting rather than planning and delivering working software quickly through prototyping and feedback. The document presents evidence that agile IT approaches provide benefits like increased business value, adaptability, and reduced risk compared to traditional methods. It provides examples of how companies can transition to more agile practices and discusses People10's role in helping businesses achieve IT agility.

1. TRANSFORMING BUSINESS
THROUGH IT AGILITY
a People10 perspective

2. the past, present and
future…

3. ?
product and service
innovation
(shrinking product life)

4. environmental impact
political, economical, natural…

5. regulations and compliance

6. customer habits
click  touch  ?
text  tweet  ?
email  social network  ?

7. buying patterns
enterprise  consumer model

8. what does it mean to your business?

9. uncertainty in
predictability out

10. the challenge

11. business success
in an
uncertain world

12. flexibility adaptability
business
agility
coordination
balance
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13. ability
to
rapidly adapt
to
market and environment changes
in
and
ways

14. can you do it without IT ?

15. but is IT a real enabler ?

16. IT was designed
to support predictability

17. now, IT has to support uncertainty
by redefining itself as…

18. agile IT
source: http://alvindeux.deviantart.com/

19. traits of agile IT

20. adapt vs. plan

21. deliver something early
vs.
deliver everything later

22. prove by prototyping

23. show and tell
vs.
status reporting

24. welcoming feedback
vs.
controlling change

25. avoid making
unwanted features

26. what is your experience while using these
and your internal applications?

27. constant feedback

28. uncompromised quality

29. as a business, are you
ready to mingle with IT?

30. as IT, is your house in
order to get up-close &
personal with business?

31. 2. product management 1. engineering practices
3. project management 4. continuous improvement

32. it works!

33. Cost Benefits (Million $ / KLOC) Cost Benefit Ratio ROI
(Million $ / KLOC)
5 2100%
Millions
25
1800%
4
20 1500%
3 1200%
15
2 900%
10
600%
1 5
300%
0 0 0%
Cost Benefits Cost / Benefit Ratio ROI
Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001 Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001 Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001
NPV BEP ROA
4 1.5 5
Millions
Millions
Millions
1.2 4
3
0.9 3
2
0.6 2
1
0.3 1
0 0 0
NPV Break Even Point Real Options Analysis
Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001 Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001 Agile CMMI® SW-CMM® ISO 9001
Source: The business value of agile software methods by Dr. F Rico, Dr. H Sayani, Dr. S Sone.
Source : The Business Value of Agile Software Methods by Dr. F Rico, Dr. H Sayani, Dr. S Sone

34. visibility business adaptability reduced risk
value
high degree of customer & features prioritized adaptability to changing frequent visibility and
developer interaction gives directly by customers market/customer needs feedback mechanism
maximum visibility and delivered in ensures reduced risk
iterations give better
time-to-market and
business value
traditional development
agile development
Source : VersionOne LLC

35. revenue
enhancement
business value
reduce expense
traditional IT agile IT

36. a case study of enterprise agile transformation: salesforce.com
Features Delivered per Team
Days between Major Releases
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

37. the enterprise agile journey :
a practical roadmap beyond
continuous deployment
test driven development
refactoring
next debt free software
shorter sprints
sizing truly agile
first steps engineering practices
define product ownership introduce measures
break long release cycles
visual management start to be agile
self-organizing team
be iterative

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