A presentation for initial questions to ask when considering rapid release deployment and PDCA methods of delivery

1. AGILE ADOPTION Guiding Your Agile Journey

2. Our Position Industry Leadership, Unified Philosophy, One Brand © 2011 Bevill Edge® 3

3. Build the Pilot Team Who are they? Cross-Functional Self-Organized Persistent Co-located Committed to the Success What do they need? Dedicated Team Room Flip Charts Persistent Task Boards Post-It Notes Markers Pens © 2011 Bevill Edge® 4

4. Scrum or not to scrum Roles, Ceremonies, Artifacts © 2011 Bevill Edge® 5

5. Release planning Vision, Requirements, Prioritization, & Planning © 2011 Bevill Edge® 6

6. Release Planning Questions Who does product visioning today? How often do you meet now? How do you get feedback from the customer today? What documents to do you deliver to the stakeholders today? Tomorrow Visual Collaboration Stakeholder Engagement Epic Story Documentation Continual Improvement Documents Velocity Release Plan Release Burndown © 2011 Bevill Edge® 7

7. Release Planning What’ll Change Expectations Durations Affinity Groups Feature Documentation Value Driven Development Prioritization Techniques Planned Projects Personal Goals for Change © 2011 Bevill Edge® 8

8. Sprint planning Planning, Scheduling, Estimating, Dependencies, Conflict Management © 2011 Bevill Edge® 9

9. Sprint Planning Questions How do you track project progress today? How do you provide status updates to the business? How do you manage dependencies? How do you measure duration? How do you sequence activities today? Tomorrow Pulled work by the team Value/Customer based prioritization Daily Standups (water cooler conversations) Frequent Feedback through Intentional Interaction Osmotic Planning © 2011 Bevill Edge® 10

10. Sprint Planning What’ll Change Documentation provided to business partners and stakeholders Timelines will become incremental Delivery will become incremental & value based Self organization will emerge in the team Managers own the end, not the means Personal Goals for Change © 2011 Bevill Edge® 11

11. monitoring Earned Value, Status Reports, Dashboards, Schedule Updates © 2011 Bevill Edge® 12

12. Monitoring Questions How do you track project progress today? Do you track earned value metrics? What metrics track project health today? How do you provide status to the business partner today? Tomorrow Velocity Metrics Complexity Burn Rate Charts Expected Path Analysis © 2011 Bevill Edge® 13

13. Monitoring What’ll Change Earned Value Reports will be replaced with Earned Value Performance thresholds and metrics will be created as a byproduct of work Information Radiators makes metrics visible Charts result in visual indicators of performance Personal Goals for Change © 2011 Bevill Edge® 14

14. testing Acceptance Criteria, Automated Unit Testing, Quality © 2011 Bevill Edge® 15

15. Testing Questions What tests structures are in place today? Who are your testers? How often do you test? How do you maintain quality assurance today? What is the procedure for documenting tests and quality today? Tomorrow Acceptance Criteria and Testing Automation Test Driven Development MMF Planning & Delivery Fail Fast, Refactor, Deliver © 2011 Bevill Edge® 16

16. Testing What’ll Change Unit Tests are automated, always on Systems Testing is automated Time Boxes allow for early fails and big wins Shippable Features will be tested in increments and accepted to production per a release schedule Personal Goals for Change © 2011 Bevill Edge® 17

17. retrospectives Lessons Learned, Historical Actuals © 2011 Bevill Edge® 18

18. Retrospectives Questions Do lessons learned get used on project planning? Are historical actuals and previous schedules used to start new projects? How are processes improved upon? Who has the authority to approve a process change? Tomorrow Teams will self-organize to ensure conflicts are escalated immediately Teams will work as groups using visual techniques to provide clear actionable feedback to the product ownership Stakeholder feedback will become part of the iteration © 2011 Bevill Edge® 19

19. Retrospectives What’ll Change Issues and Risks will be handled immediately by the entire team until resolved Communications will allow for frequent feedback and prevent unknown issues from emerging Personal Goals for Change © 2011 Bevill Edge® 20

20. Product demo Delivery, Functional Increments, Stakeholder Engagement © 2011 Bevill Edge® 21