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The Five Phases of Agile Maturity
(Part 2): Phase 3 and 4

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Meet Our Panelists
Sneha Crews
Managing Director,
Solutions Engineering
Rod Morrison
Partnerships Director,
EMEA
Ali Huda
Senior Enterprise Agility
Consultant

01 Agile Maturity Phases Overview
02 Deep Dive into Phase 3
03 Deep Dive into Phase 4
04 Outcomes & Success Stories
Agenda

Overview
The Five Phases of Enterprise Agility

VMO/LACE
• The Agile Team
• Team of Agile Teams
• The Scaling Agile Organization
• The Agile Enterprise
• The Scaling Agile Enterprise
Five Phases of Enterprise Agility
VMO

Scaling Agile Framework - Phase 3 & 4
1. Strategic Planning
2. Investment Prioritization
1. Strategies, goals, themes
2. Long Term Strategic
Roadmapping
3. Strategic Snapshots
1. Strategy & Investment Funding
2. Demand Management
3. Budgeting
1. Strategic Themes and OKRs
2. Epic Business Cases
3. Epic Backlog & Prioritization
4. Epic Lifecycle Management

Phase 3 : The Scaling Agile
Organization
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Phase 3 – The Scaling Agile Organization
Empowered Teams
• Cultural Engagement
• Servant Leadership
Delivery Groups stall in evolving to ADGs and represent <70% of one Business Portfolio
• Objectives and Key Results are adopted
• Organization Siloed
• Agility stalled in scaling outside originating silo
• Teams desire autonomy
Common Agile Framework
• Business Agility
• Scaling Framework
• ADG Elements are normalized within their context
• Frameworks and Processes adopted and normed to the Delivery Groups
• Core Center of Learning established
• Toolscape administration rolled into Centers of learning
• Data network and demands begins normalization
Value Stream Alignment
• Lean Thinking
• Product Agility
ADG Elements refine Value stream delivery to Product value outcomes
• LPM becomes notional
• Product sophistication grows
• ADG elements have cross-silo (portfolio) flow inhibitors impacting productivity – Ex-silo Value Stream Contributors
• EA Advocates and Champions identified external to siloed ADG Elements
Value Delivery &
Productivity
• Team Agility
• Team Processes
ADG Elements coordinate planning, Qtrly delivery @60+/- 5%
• Team delivery @70+%
• Roadmap delivery @<30%
• ADG Elements @75+% unified toolscapes and normalized metrics and reporting
• ADG Elements have WiP, Cycle and Lead Times baselined
• Centers of Learning established
Built-In Quality
• Technical Agility
• DevOps
Teams adhere to agreed upon agile testing and defect management processes
• Leading teams adopt DevOps
• Defect and Delivery budgets exist
• QA metrics are normalized
• Tech Debt Paydown is scheduled

● Organizations functioning in Agile Release Train structures but lack Alignment on goals or
objectives
● Even though visibility into what’s being accomplished is established each team is working
in their own silo
● Program and Portfolio Kanban in place but no limiting work in progress. “Everything is high
priority”.
● Business Value delivered is not as expected by stakeholders
● Increased throughput and feature delivery though not contributing to strategic goals
Phase 3 – Pain Points

● Objective metrics to support governance and improvement
● Teams / Team of Teams organized around the flow of value
● Lean budgeting to empower decision makers
● Kanban system provides portfolio visibility and WIP limits
● Enterprise Architects guides larger technology decisions
● Value delivery via Epics
● Alignment to Strategic Themes
● Quality measured by observable working features and customer feedback
● Portfolio Backlog Refinement
Phase 3 – Activities to Mature

● Multiple teams of teams delivering consistently towards the same value delivery
● Epic realization is predictable
● Business value delivery is predictable
● Cross Portfolio Dependencies emerging
Phase 3 – Leading Indicators to Transition to Phase 4

Scaling With Portfolio Level
● Organized around the flow of value
● Lean Budgets empower decision makers
● Kanban system provides portfolio visibility and WIP limits
● Enterprise Architect guides larger technology decisions
● Objective metrics support governance and improvement
● Value delivery via Epics
● Strategic Themes

Portfolio Management
Themes from Enterprise Planning
events
Themes are planned and work groups
aligned at a high level
• Portfolio Epics
• Portfolio Backlog
• Portfolio Kanban
• Objective Reporting
• Strategy View - Work Tree
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Longer-Term Solution Roadmap in Jira Align
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Epics by Strategic
Theme
Month by Quarter
Strategic Theme
Portfolio Epics
Yearly
Horizon

Portfolio Kanban Exit Criteria In Jira Align

Portfolio Room
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Manage the entire Portfolio planning and
execution workflow via a central command
center

Work Tree – Strategy View
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Objective Reporting
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The Progress by Objective report captures the status of the key objectives at
all levels, including the blocked and in-progress items

Phase 4 : The Agile Enterprise
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Phase 4 – The Agile Enterprise
Empowered Teams
• Cultural Engagement
• Servant Leadership
BP Executive Stakeholder(s) identified
• Why Communicated regularly
• 1 – 2 Business Portfolios aligned in Value Streams @<50%Annual Delivery
• Annual Assessments and Survey’s conducted
• Certifications and accreditations are normalized and funded
• HR is transforming to Agile HR
Common Agile Framework
• Business Agility
• Scaling Framework
BPs and ADGs continue to evolve Framework and Process
• Annual Planning now participatory for ex-silo VSCs
• Enterprise/Strategic planning normalization begins
• EA Advocates and Champions ex-silo to BPs attend Center’s of Learning
Value StreamAlignment
• Lean Thinking
• Product Agility
BPs are aligned in clear Value Streams
• VSCs identified and normalized in planning with BPs, VS, and ADGs
• Operational value streamalignment under contemplation
• Products and Service strategic roadmaps are produced
• Product Agility fully embraced: ideation, Personas, Competitors, etc. normalized and adopted
• Product and Service values informfunding delivery work (OKRs)
Value Delivery & Productivity
• TeamAgility
• TeamProcesses
ADGs and Ex-Silo VSCs coordinate planning, Qtrly delivery @70 +/- 5%
• Teamdelivery @80%range
• Roadmap Delivery @50%range
• Lead Time at Qtrly delivery boundary normed to a known %Confidence to Deliver a Feature of Value fromIdea to Delivery to Market
• OKRs measure Value Delivery and drive Pivot or Persevere decisions
• WiP at ADGs managed to deliver right levels of Value with Quality
Built-In Quality
• Technical Agility
• DevOps
DevOps and CI/CD are teamand ADG Norms
• Automated Testing and Environment Deployment becoming comprehensive
• Defects are analyzed complexly; by: Product, Age, Density, Type, Severity, etc.
• Tech Debt is minimized in new delivery
• Existing Tech Debt reduced by an appreciable measure
• Centers of Learning provide refining feedback

● Unable to roll up metrics to see across portfolios
● Multiple/disparate systems create friction in reporting and planning
● Non-cadenced timeboxes across enterprise
● Enterprise level set of terminology and concepts
● Collaboration across autonomous portfolios
● Senior leadership not aligned
Phase 4 – Pain Points

● Developing Product Roadmapping
● Predictable Epic Delivery
● OKR reporting
Phase 4 – Activities to Mature

● Lean cycle times
● Business value delivery and quality across portfolios is consistent
● Robust Product roadmapping
● Increased Product led feature delivery
Phase 4 – Leading Indicators to Mature to Phase 5

Connecting Strategy to Execution with LPM
Could be Corporate OKRs

Lean Portfolio Management Summary
SAFe Principles Applied
• Take an Economic View
• Apply Systems Thinking
• Assume variability; preserve options
• Limit WiP, reduce batch size, reduce
queue length
• Apply Cadence, synchronize with cross
domain planning
Portfolio Management in Jira Align
• Strategic Backlog
• Value Engineering
• Investment Allocation
• Portfolio Canvas
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Strategic Backlog

Investment by Feature

Use the Portfolio Canvas

Investment vs. Actuals
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