Presentation about scaling Agile anti patterns NY nov/2016

1. How NOT to scale
Agile
Renato Willi

2. Renato Willi

3. Start everything at once

4. … but there isn’t
internet for
everybody
Neither phone
Neither skype
Neither Hangout
But I want remote
teams!

5. Don’t give any training
“Just staff an Adjaiow Kowtch"

6. Distributed

7. Team 1
Vendor 1
Team 2
Vendor 2
Team 3
Vendor 3
One Vendor / Team
Pros
> Integration
> Internal Trust
< Vendors Turnover Risk
Cons
< Collaboration
• Multiple Agendas
> Capability Risk
< Shared Learning
> Vendor Dependency Risk
< Code Knowledge

8. Team 1
Vendor 1
Team 2
Vendor 2
Team 3
Vendor 3
Múltiple Vendors / Team
Pros
> Collaboration
< Capability Risk
> Shared Knowledge
< Vendor Dependency Risk
> Code Knowledge
Cons
• Multiple Agendas
< Internal Trust
> Vendor Turnover Risk

9. Which agile @ scale framework are we using?

10. What about a mix?
Which agile @ scale framework are we using?

11. Monday Tuesday Wednesday
8:00
Daily Meeting
Team 1
8:15
Daily Meeting
Team 2
8:30
Daily Meeting
Team 3
8:45
Daily Meeting
Team 4
9:00
Daily Meeting
Team 5
9:15
Daily Meeting
PO’s & SM's
Committee
9:30
Daily Meeting
Tech Committee
Spend your mornings
attending Daily Meetings

12. Monday Tuesday Wednesday
14:00 CPO
15:15
Superintendents
Committee
16:30
Sponsors
Committee
17:45
Systems
Committee
18:00
Executive
Committee
19:15 Dependencies
20:30 Chapter
Spend your afternoons
attending governance meetings

13. … and don’t
verify the
merges
Let the
vendors
decide the
Git Flow

14. Safety of the code
without automated
tests

15. When things
go wrong,
manage
what every
person of the
team is
doing

16. Manage Output
instead of Outcome
+ =

17. Feature 1
corrections
Release 1
Feat. 1 Done
improvements 1 & 2
+ corrections
Release 2
No!, now Feat. 1 is Done
.
.
.
Oh, wait!
Good luck trying to keep
your Gantt charts up to
date!

18. Keep everyone working 24/7 so they can
develop EVERYthing

19. Don’t mind
the power
structures

20. Shareholders
Customers
How things work

21. Shareholders
Customers
A new vision

22. The greatest cultural change

23. 1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
The greatest cultural change

25. 5 biggest mistakes made by organizations that fail
scaling Agile
1. Not accepting structural changes at its culture
2. Believing that an agile transformation is just some IT thing
3. Believing that all you have to know is at an agile at scale
framework
4. Adapting agile values and principles
5. Not considering software engineering matters

26. What should be the best approach
when our clients don’t want to change
the way they work?

27. about.me/renato.willi
Thank you!