Agile maturity to scale for enterprise & blending with Devops

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India Agile Week-2014
June 17th 2014 - Chennai
Agile maturity to scale for enterprise
& blending with Devops
Janardhanam Venkat
Director of Engineering
www.agileinbusiness.com

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Overview
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India Agile Week-2014
• Agile teams evolution
• Refine and fine tune agile adoption
• Leverage on external factor to succeed in Agile
• DevOps is part of agile
• Expanding agile in enterprise
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• SAFe Value & Business Benefit
• Success Measure

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UNICOM Presents
India Agile Week-2014
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• Evolution & Maturity
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• Engineering Practices
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• Blending into DevOps
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• Expanding to Enterprise

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Evolution – Small Agile Team
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AGILE
TEAM
QA
Stake
Holders
POScrum
Master
DEV

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Evolution – Small Agile Team
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AGILE
TEAM
QA
Stake
Holders
POScrum
Master
DEV

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Agile Inception in Small Team
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• Agile Team Challenges
– Distributed Teams
– Breaking Stories into Tasks
– Estimation
– Doneness
– Understanding Agile
– Lone Product Owner
– Spike
– Team Ownership

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Maturity in Agile Teams
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• Tech Debt Management
• Pair Programming
• Stake holders on board
• Involving customers in Epic
• Documentation lag
• Unit test & QA test cases

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Adopt to Demand
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• Early to market – Pilot customers
• Fine tune sprint period – 1 or 2 or 3 weeks
• Estimation - Hours to Story Points
• Help from Tools
• Cut down stabilization sprint
• Adjust to high level requirements
Sprint 1
2 Wks
Sprint 2
2 Wks
Sprint X
2 Wks
Stabilization
Sprint 5 Wks

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Adopt to Demand
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• Metrics collection
• Knowledge management
• Slippage - Scrumfall to Agile
• Better Collaboration
Dev
QA

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Adopt to Demand
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• Metrics collection
• Knowledge management
• Slippage - Scrumfall to Agile
• Better Collaboration
Dev
QAQA

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UNICOM Presents
India Agile Week-2014
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• Evolution & Maturity
2
• Engineering Practices
3
• Blending into DevOps
4
• Expanding to Enterprise

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Engineering Practices - Supporting Agile
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• Continuous Integration
• Automation Tests
• Test Driven Development
• Provisioning Platform
• ALM tools
• Release Automation

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UNICOM Presents
India Agile Week-2014
1
• Evolution & Maturity
2
• Engineering Practices
3
• Blending into DevOps
4
• Expanding to Enterprise

14. Challenges across the industry
Source: IT OPS & DEVOPS PRODUCTIVITY REPORT 2013
“The primary causes of downtime are:
human configuration error (40%),
software quality (30%) and missing
patches (20%).

15. Blending into DevOps
• Agile Manifest
– Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
– Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months,
with a preference to the shorter timescale.
• Culture - Dev and ops finger pointing
– Dev says “Works in my environment”
– Ops says “Does not work in production”
• Ops to be included in agile from the beginning of the release

16. Blending into DevOps
• Agile Manifest
– Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
– Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months,
with a preference to the shorter timescale.
• Culture - Dev and ops finger pointing
– Dev says “Works in my environment”
– Ops says “Does not work in production”
• Ops to be included in agile from the beginning of the release
Dev
• Developers
• QA testers
• UX developers
• Architects
Ops
• System Admins - Setups servers
• Release Managers - Configures & deploys code
• Webserver Admins – Installs & supports webserver
• DBA – Installs and maintains database

17. DevOps
• Ops to participate in story qualification
• Ops included in planning
• Ops to test the product before release
• Release Automation - deployment infrastructure as code
– Eliminate manual hand off to reduce errors
– Enable faster release of changes
– Repeatable without errors Source: Jason Sanders Teched North America

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UNICOM Presents
India Agile Week-2014
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• Evolution & Maturity
2
• Engineering Practices
3
• Blending into DevOps
4
• Expanding to Enterprise

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Expanding in Enterprise
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AGILE
TEAM
QA
Stake
Holders
PO
Ops
DEV

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Expanding in Enterprise
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Expanding in Enterprise
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Expanding in Enterprise
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• Educate Senior Management
• Training teams on Agile and specialized area
• Team Ownership
• Agile from top to bottom
• Existing PPM Role Mapping
• Continuous Training & Sharing

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Traditional Agile Organization
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Portfolio
Team
Program
Waterfall
Waterfall
Agile

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Traditional Agile Organization
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India Agile Week-2014
Portfolio
Team
Program
Waterfall
Waterfall
Agile
Agile
Agile

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Traditional Agile Organization
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India Agile Week-2014
Portfolio
Team
Program
Waterfall
Waterfall
Agile
Agile
Agile

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Traditional Agile Organization
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Portfolio
Team
Program
Waterfall
Waterfall
Agile
Agile
Agile
Role change from PMO To
Services & Support Ownership
Delivery Adoption
Change Management Benefit realization
Change Leadership
Business Value

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Agile at Scale
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28. Portfolio
Backlog
Value Streams
•Investment
•Themes
Business
Epics
Architectural
EpicsPortfolio Manager
Program Manager
Business Owner
EA
Scaled Agilist
• Centralized strategy & decentralized execution
• Metrics for governance
• Communities of Practice (COP)
• Kanban and WIP limit
Portfolio

29. Program
Backlog
Roadmap
Vision
Portfolio
BacklogProduct Management
Release Management
Feature Owner
Architect
UX designer
Release Train Engineer
DevOps
System Engineer
• Aligned to common mission through single backlog
• Common sprint length and estimation
Program

30. PSI PSI HIP
FEATURE FEATURE
Agile Release Train
Program
• Feature teams
• Agile Release Train (ART)
• Potential Shippable Increment (PSI)
• Hardening, Innovation & Planning Sprint (HIP)
ReleasePlanning
ReleasePlanning
PSI
ReleasePlanning

31. Team
Backlog
Program
Backlog
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Developer
Tester
• Empowered, self-organizing, self-managing cross-functional
teams
• Teams operate under program vision, architecture
and user experience guidance
Team

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Scaled Agile Framework
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SAFe Core Values
 Code Quality
 Program Execution
 Alignment
 Transparency
Business Result
 Engagement
 Productivity
 Time to market
 Quality
Benefit & Noise
 Governance
 Customize
 Service Industry
 Monitoring Metrics
 No control

33. Summary
Source: Ivar Jacobson International Case Study

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India Agile Week-2014
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UNICOM Trainings & Seminars Pvt. Ltd.
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Speaker name: Janardhanam Venkat
Email ID: venkatj@collab.net