Presenting 2 tools to help you scale your Agile organization: a Portfolio of projects and a Roadmap (inspired from the SAFe framework)

1. Portfolio & Roadmap: 2 tools to scale Agile
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2. Scaling…
 Your Agile teams are
working efficiently
and improving sprint
after sprint.
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…But
 They tend to work in silos.
 You do not have a good overall vision of everything that is happening in
the company. Neither do your teams.
 You have high-level prioritization issues.
 You have dependency difficulties between teams.
 How can you scale your Agile organization?

3. Process Overview
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Formalize the
Project
Collaborative
Specifications
Development
Validation
Release to
Production
Assess
results
Evaluate and
prioritize
AGILE PRODUCTION
Idea
Owner
2 TOOLS: PORTFOLIO OF PROJECTS + ROADMAP
Lean / Kanban overall approach
Scrum production cycle

4. LEVEL 1 - PORTFOLIO
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5. Managing a Portfolio of Projects
 1 portfolio to rule them all
 Teams are organized based on the Scrum Agile
framework, with their distinct backlogs and sprint
cycles.
 On top of it, we want to manage an overall aggregated
view of all the Projects in our production pipeline.
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 Main principles:
1. Simple
2. Focus on value
3. Allows for continuous improvement of the process and the
production flow

6. The Dashlane Portfolio
 Project Owner role:
 Anybody can come up with an idea. But he must take ownership and drive the Project
from start to the end, with the support of all teams.
 Any type of Project should be formalized, whatever the size and domain: business,
marketing, product, tech…
 Formalize the Project
 Title
 Short Description
 Owner
 Business Value: t-shirt size increase in revenue estimated for 1 year after launch
 Cost: t-shirt size macro estimate of a budget
 KPI: define the metrics that will allow to assess the results of the projects
 Optional: links to Mockups / Sketches / Other info
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7. The Dashlane Portfolio
 A high-level view of our projects at Dashlane
 To build the right thing at the right time
 Anticipate cross-team coordination
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8. LEVEL 2 – PRIORITIZATION
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9. Prioritize
 Roadmap Meeting every 6 weeks to review the
backlog and prioritize the next Top Projects to be
produced.
 Feedback Loop with the teams.
 Top-Down + Bottom-Up approach.
 Output is used to:
 Feed each Scrum team backlog
 Manage coordination and cross-dependencies
 Build and Communicate a quarterly Roadmap.
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10. ROI
 What’s the value of a project?
 Evaluate Cost / Budget vs expected Profit
 T-Shirt size it.
 Build a ROI matrix.
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11. Dashlane ROI Matrix
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12. LEVEL 3 – ROADMAP
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13. Prioritize
 1 roadmap for the battle plan
 Quarterly (for Dashlane)
 Respect the limits of Work In Progress (Kanban
way) for each team, to avoid too much parallel
work.
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14. Limit Work In Progress
 Kanban way.
 To be more efficient through Focus.
 Reduce multi-tasking.
 Stop Starting. Start Finishing.
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15. The Dashlane Roadmap
 A quarterly Roadmap to give consistent vision and scope
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16. LEVEL 4 - BONUS
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17. The Skateboard approach
 Don't do "BIG" projects.
 From the start think and
build iteratively. Deliver
value at each iteration.
 Avoid Big Bang delivery for
complex, innovative
product development. Do
it iteratively and
incrementally.
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 What is the minimum project you can
build to start learning?
 What’s your skateboard? Think of the
skateboard as a metaphor for the
smallest thing you can put in the hands of
real users, and get real feedback.

18. The Asteroids Metaphor
 Build hierarchical backlogs,
adapted to different levels of
communication and planning:
from portfolio projects to
user stories
 Avoid anticipating too much:
plan in details for the short-
term, keep an eye on the big-
picture
 Keep the ability to change
course
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19. Evaluate results
 Was the project a success?
 3 months after project delivery:
 Evaluate the KPI defined at the beginning of the Project to assess
if it was a success.
 Compare the original assumptions vs reality: actual benefits,
actual workload.
 Quarterly Feedback loop to the team:
 Celebrate success
 Learn on failure
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20. Portfolio Metrics
 To continuously improve our process.
 Quarterly « process » retrospective.
 Track
 Cycle time = the time spent delivering a project = duration
between « Next Priority » and « Release to Production »
 Sucess Rate = proportion of successful vs failed projects
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21. Questions?
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22. APPENDIX
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23. SAFe Framework
1. Portfolio of projects
2. Roadmap
 Inspired from SAFe: http://www.scaledagileframework.com/
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24. We’re changing the world… one password at a time
Dashlane wants to make identity and
payment simple and secure everywhere!
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25. We work with the latest technology!
See our code in action! Check out some of our
projects on Github!
Github.com/Dashlane
In addition, each member of the Dashlane team can take some time to
share his insights in Tech Conferences and become a thought leader
in the tech community.
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Alexis Fogel
@ Droid Con
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@ The Dublin
Web Summit
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