This was a talk I gave @ the Intel Agile East event.

1. Strategic Vision and Scrum
Looking Beyond the Next Sprint
Laszlo Szalvay
Intel Agile East
May 2012
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2. Market Trends
“Scrum is the Modern way to work”
October 2010
Tieto
Mika Koivuluoma, VP Software Development and Tools
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3. Problem Space Explained
As an Industry – we have And not so great here.
been really great here.
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4. Why is Strategic Vision Important?
• Knowing, growing, and measuring team and product successes against
organizational initiatives
• Knowing where we are going and being able to defend why to the market
• Fostering collaboration
• Delighting users
• Creating Organizational Momentum: Success breeds successes
• Others?
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5. Knowing, Growing, & Measuring
Non-Agile Process Strategic Agile
Exploration Coordination Transformation
Project Team Definition Alignment Project Team
Non-Agile Process Strategic Agile
Exploration Coordination Transformation
Project Team Definition Alignment Project Team
Non-Agile Process Strategic Agile
Exploration Coordination Transformation
Project Team Definition Alignment Project Team
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6. On Become a Learning Organization
• Scrum won’t solve your problems. Scrum will
discover underlying problems in your organization.
It’s your job as managers and executives to solve the
problems Scrum unearths using a framework
CollabNet can teach you.
• Scrum doesn’t work when:
– You believe that your organization doesn’t have
problems
– Politically or culturally you can’t solve problems
• Scrum works when
– You have a learning organization. One where the
leadership sees solving problems as a means to a
better company.
Jeff Sutherland
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7. The Building Blocks of a Learning Organizations
• Success does not make you happy
• Achieving your goals can simply result in moving the goal posts
• If happiness is on the other side of that goal post – you are
delaying your happiness indefinitely.
• The field research shows Happiness = Successful
• You can re-wire your brain in about 21 Days - The Ripple effect will be
amazing (try it on your teams)
• Random Acts of Kindness
• Journaling about Positive business interactions
• Unsolicited Positive emails to coworkers
• Exercise and Meditation
Shawn Achor of Good Think
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows
it under his feet
James Oppenheim
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8. Happiness Metrics
The T-Shirt Test
• How happy are you with our
Company? (scale 1-5)
• Last update of this row
(timestamp)
• What feels best right now?
• What feels worst right now?
• What would increase your
happiness index?
• Other comments
Henrik Kniberg
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9. Delighting Users
•Delight More by Offering Less
•Explore More Alternatives
•Defer Decisions
• Delight Users By Meeting Unrecognized Needs
• Aim for the Simplest Possible Thing
Give the People Doing the Work a Clear Line of Sight
to the People for Whom the Work is Being Done
Steven Denning
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10. Techniques to help Create & Foster a Vision
– Executive Vision Sessions
– Story Mapping
– Walking Skeletons
– Epic Budgeting
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11. Technique (a) - Vision Session
• Who are our primary users?
• What do they say they need?
• What do we know that they don’t?
• What is our product’s key benefit?
• Who are our primary competitors?
• What makes our product different?
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12. Technique (b) - User Story Maps
• A user story map...
– Arranges user stories into a useful model
– Helps you understand the overall functionality of
the system
– Identifies holes and omissions in your backlog
– Helps effectively plan holistic releases that deliver Jeff Patton
value to users and business with each release.
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13. Technique (c) - Walking Skeleton
A Walking Skeleton is a tiny implementation of the
system that performs a small end-to-end function.
It need not use the final architecture, but it should
link together the main architectural components.
The architecture and the functionality can then
evolve in parallel.
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14. Technique (d) – Epic Budgeting
Budgeting is used to set
soft limits on scope goals
within the broader
context of a date-based
milestone.
This technique is
therefore a powerful
tool for determining
whether too much
emphasis has been
placed on a particular
Epic in contrast to others
in the release milestone.
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15. CollabNet Company Background
• Founded in 1999; Headquarters in Silicon Valley.
• Global offices in Seoul, Tokyo, Chennai, Munich,
London, Amsterdam, Seattle, Portland and soon to
be in Singapore.
• Started Subversion project in 2000
• 50%+ Marketshare for Source Code Management.
CollabNet named strategic leader by Gartner and
Any
Forrester Questions?
• Founders include Brian Behlendorf (Founder of
Subversion, Apache Project, Mozilla Board member,
CTO of the World Economic Forum) and Tim O’Reilly
(founder of O’Reilly Media)
• Multiple Acquisitions along the way (VA Software,
Danube, Codesion)
• 10,000 companies use our products and services
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Agile &
Innovation
Laszlo Szalvay
VP Worldwide Scrum Business
Laz@collab.net
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