My keynote presentation for AccuRev's Agile To You conference in Santa Clara, CA. This talk is focused on where management can be involved in Agile adoption by support teams and focus on the entire organizational change.

1. Leadership in the
Agile world
Where do managers fit in?

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5+ Agile
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3. We know Agile
focuses on the team

4. Yet some are left asking
“Where do I fit in?”

5. One such group Management

6. Where can Managers
support teams?

7. More “XYZ” Agile
Time Methodology
Typical
More Tools Adoption
$$$ Path
t
Harder
o Adap
t Teams

8. Ou tcomes Principles
Keep it Minimal Barely Sufficient
Simple
Processes Tools
daption
Teams
A
through
g
Learnin

9. Reduce Dependencies

10. Team Dependencies
Dev
BA
QA
Functional Teams

11. Team Dependencies
Dev
BA
QA
Dependencies between individuals

12. Team Dependencies
Component Teams

13. Team Dependencies
Dependencies between
teams

14. Team Dependencies
Feature Teams

15. Team Dependencies
May have some
dependencies

16. Reduce Debt
From upcoming book “Managing Software Debt: Building
for Inevitable Change” by Chris Sterling

17. Technical Debt
Issues in software implementation
that will impede future
development if left unresolved

18. Quality Debt
A lack of quality, either technical
or functional, will lessen value
per feature added over time

19. Configuration Management Debt
Creating unpredictable and
error-prone release management

20. Minimize Waste
PARTIAL FINDING
DELAYS
WORK INFO
OVER EXTRA
DEFECTS HANDOFFS
PRODUCE STEPS

21. Create Collaborative
Environments

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25. F ormal Re search
Tra ining Time
Invest in Learning
Set
Comm unities Based
ractice
of P D esign

26. Where can managers
change the
organization?

27. Everybody
needs to
understand
strategy

28. Culture of
Learning
Culture of
Fear

29. Optimize the whole not the parts
3 Days 10 Days 10 Days 5 Days 3 Days
Approve
Tech Code Verify
Request and Deploy
Prioritize
Assessment and Test and Fix
10 Min 10 Min 30 Min 4 Hours 2 Hours 1 Hour
20 Min 12 Hours 6 Hours
VALUE ~300 Minutes ~2%
WASTE
EFFICIENCY ~16000 Minutes

30. Optimize the whole not the parts
1 Hour 4 Hours 4 Hours 1 Day 4 Hours
X
3 Days 10 X
Days X
10 Days X
5 Days X
3 Days
Approve
Tech Code Verify
Request and Deploy
Prioritize
Assessment and Test and Fix
10 Min 10 Min 30 Min 4 Hours 2 Hours 1 Hour
X
20 Min X
12 Hours X
6 Hours
5 Min 2 Hours 2 Hours
VALUE ~300 Minutes
WASTE ~20%
EFFICIENCY ~1500 Minutes

31. Everybody needs to
solve the problems

32. Agile will help, but cannot
address all challenges

33. Agile is not a “Dev” thing but a
significant organizational change

34. Agile is not
a
destination
but a
journey

35. Agile needs
strong
leaders to
make the
difference

36. Will you be that leader?