Talk at Agile India 2014 - http://2014.agileindia.org/program/ http://present.agileindia.org/schedule/agile-india-2014#session-135-info

1. Evolutionary Approach for
Maturing Agile Adoption in
IT Services
Ravi Kumar
ravikumar.rk@gmail.com
February 27, 2014

2. Agenda
Organization Culture, Change & IT Services Landscape
Agility
Revolutionary Approaches - Challenges
Evolutionary Approach ?
Declaration of Interdependence
Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Agile IT Services Manifesto

3. Organization Culture
Actuality
William E. Schneider Model
IMPersonal
Personal
Possibility
http://collectiveedgecoaching.com/the-agile-enterprise/agile-culture/

4. A thing about CHANGE

5. IT Services Landscape

6. Agility !!
Agility or nimbleness is the ability to change the body's
position efficiently, and requires the integration of
isolated movement skills using a combination of balance,
coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance.
!
- Wikipedia
http:/
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agility

7. Declaration of Interdependence

8. Revolutionary Approach
Agility!!
!
easily said than done
www.despair.com

9. Evolutionary Approach
Agility!!
!
is it any easier ?
www.business2community.com

10. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Reduce Batch Size &
Variability
Economic View Helps The Key Decision Making Process

11. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Software Decay &
Emergent Evolution
!
Backlogs, Designs &
Architecture

12. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
!
Alignment
with Custo
mer
Env. might
still pose an
issue!
Centralize Delivery
Strategy (LEAN) coupled
with Decentralized
Execution (agile)

13. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Balancing
Centralization and
Decentralization
Orient
Observe
Decide
Act

14. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
!
Establish Delivery
Cadence to manage
uncertainty &
controlling flow
Don’t need long term planning when there’s short turning
radius!!!

15. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
It’s All About Fast
Feedbacks
blog.matbury.com

16. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
!
Design of the Control
System
Value Delivered
!
Features Accepted
Predictable
Queue Ageing
Cost of Queue
Throughput
Feedback speed
Effective
Engineering Quality

17. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
What PROBLEM are we
trying to solve ?
quotes-lover.com

18. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Understand the
constraints and plan a
strategy to overcome
them
webdesignledger.com

19. Implementing Evolutionary Approach
Embracing mistakes and
learning from them is
most important.
quotes-lover.com
Striving on tried and tested means may not be the best
strategy!!

20. Emergent Evolution
Emergent evolution is the hypothesis that, in the course of
evolution, some entirely new properties, such as mind and
consciousness, appear at certain critical points, usually
because of an unpredictable rearrangement of the already
existing entities. The concept has influenced the
development of systems theory and complexity theory.
Emergentism is a corresponding belief in emergence.
-wikipedia
http:/
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_evolution

21. Thank you!!