1. Delivering Business Value
The Deal Breakers
Ravi Kumar
ravikumar.rk@gmail.com
June 28, 2014

2. First things first…
• You aren’t an agile programmer—you’re a
programmer who programs with agility.
• You don’t work on an agile team—your
team exhibits agility.
• You don’t use agile tools—you use tools
that enhance your agility.
• It’s easy to tack the word “agile” onto
just about anything. Agility is harder to
misappropriate.
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!
http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/
time-to-kill-agile/ - Dave Thomas
Agility?
www.clickertraining.com

3. Value?
First things first…
• the regard that
something is held to
deserve; the importance,
worth, or usefulness of
something.
• the material or monetary
worth of something.
• the worth of something
compared to the price
paid or asked for it.
-Google www.shutterstock.com

4. Deal Breaker - 1
• Is there a standard
way to do this?
• Story Points delivered
is misleading
Measuring Value
www.eclipsepc.com

5. What’s in the Backlog?
Deal Breaker - 2
Kano's model focuses on
differentiating product features,
as opposed to focusing initially
on customer needs

6. Dysfunctional agile teams!!
Deal Breaker - 3
Namesake Backlog
Standardised
Estimates
Sprint Plannings
Iteration Chaos
Nothing to Show & Tell

7. Industrialised Software Delivery
Process…
Deal Breaker - 4
www.theverge.com
• Replicating lean
manufacturing in software
development.
• Factory approach

8. SCALE Agile…..but is there
Deal Breaker - 5
S - Strategy
C - Collaboration
A - Autonomy
L - Learning
E - Evolve
www.skmurphy.com

9. Where’s the Business side of things?
•Budgets and Forecast
•Forecasts are not
estimates
•Ignoring Economics is not
pragmatic
Deal Breaker - 6
http://www.contactvirginmedia.com

10. 10
Business Forecasting
Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting
Choices
Predictability

11. www.makeuseof.com
Agility in dev alone will not
drive Business Value !!