Many agile methods and strategies are geared towards small teams working in reasonably straightforward situations. That’s great work if you can get it. Most enterprises that are adopting agile today have been in operations for decades and sometimes centuries. They are typically dealing with significant investments in legacy systems and processes that won’t go away any time soon. They have an existing culture that is usually not-as-agile as it could be and an organization structure that puts up many roadblocks to collaboration. Their staff members are often overly specialized and many people do not have skills in agile software development techniques, and there are many thoughts as to what needs to be done to improve things, the adoption of agile being one of many. This is certainly not the startup company environment that we keep hearing about.
Scott Ambler reviews the challenges faced by established enterprises when transforming to agile and what enterprise agile means in practice. He then overviews the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework, a pragmatic and context-sensitive approach to enterprise agile, working through how it addresses the realities faced by modern organizations. Data from recent industry data will be shared to describe what is happening in practice on enterprise agile teams. Scott then works through advice for transforming your enterprise to become more agile, including the people-process-tools triad and the skills and experience required of enterprise agile team coaches and executive agile coaches. He ends with an overview of proven strategies for adopting agile in less-than-ideal environments
Many businesses have adopted and scaled Agile methods within their technology teams. However, the ones experiencing the greatest success have implemented the Lean and Agile mindset across the enterprise. This interactive workshop is designed to help attendees understand the elements of the Enterprise Business Agility framework, share our real world experience and give you the ability to assess your level of Business Agility.
Ever feel like you're doing metrics wrong? Well, you probably are! Join us and up your game by learning the GQM approach to Agile metrics.
In Agile, there is a need to collect data to demonstrate progress and show improvement, but where does one even start? Common Agile metrics approaches do well at measuring team velocity and throughput, but can sometimes overlook the requirements of executive sponsors, product management, and other key stakeholders. This problem is often rooted in a lack of understanding about what business goals are driving decision-making throughout the organization and what questions we should be answering with the metrics we collect.
The “Goal-Question-Metric” (GQM) approach is a proven method for driving goal-oriented measures throughout a software organization. With GQM, we start by defining the goals we are trying to achieve, then ask clarifying questions around those goals, and finally answer our questions through objective metrics. By mapping business outcomes and goals to specific measures, we can form a better picture of the Agile environment and clearly demonstrate how we are doing across the span of the enterprise.
During this session, we will explore the GQM approach and show its effectiveness in identifying the key information your enterprise needs to know at the Executive, Portfolio, Program, and Delivery tiers. We will provide sample metric sets for each tier and explain the goals and questions that drove us to them. At the end of this talk, the audience will understand not only how to ask the right questions, but specifically what metrics can be used to answer them.
More and more organizations are looking to extend the benefits of agility beyond software/technology/IT. In parallel, marketing organizations are facing similar issues to the ones we're facing in technology.
Let's help marketers looking to improve their agility - what can we learn from agile development and how should we adapt it for their context? Agile Marketing is now an established practice - we will learn what it means and how to go about implementing it.
Throughout the session, we will combine theory, experience from several case studies, and hands-on practice.
This session is aimed at: marketers or other non-development practitioners looking to apply agile outside of development/IT, as well as agile practitioners that want to help their non-dev/IT people make a move towards agile and are looking for the right language/approach.
Stop getting good at process and start getting better at business! Learn how to evolve your PMO from process-centric to people-centric and partner with your agile delivery teams.
This session is for anyone who is seeking practical, proven techniques to evolve your Project Management into Lean Portfolio Management.
Join us if you are interested in ideas to bridge the chasm of needless suffering that separates Executive Strategy & Scrum Team Tactics.
We will integrate different Agile Frameworks & Practices into one unified approach that can be used to tie together the care-about's of Executives and the work done day-to-day by Scrum Teams.
Let’s have some fun in this presentation with Agile Forecasting! We’ll walk through a primer of some Agile forecasting techniques that are commonly applied today. Given a simple sized set of backlogs, I’ll guide each table for a breakout to practice real-time applying a “top-down” and “bottoms-up” set of Forecasting approaches that illustrate the benefits & limitations. We’ll then rollup the inputs together across the diverse teams to calibrate time and costs for enterprise Agile financial planning. Next, we’ll need to collaborate together with a guiding practitioner team to supplement our forecasts by applying a predictive model that accounts for uncertainty and variability. This will help manage expectations from your executive team with tolerance ranges.
But wait, there’s more! Given the reality of always-changing conditions and organizations with more traditional mindsets in key stakeholders, we’ll arm you with a lightweight but essential mitigation approach to wrap around your delivery so that executive trust and love come your way for the best date you’ll ever have.
