Bringing visibility to dependencies between teams is key. This webinar looks at three ways to do just that. Because different teams have their own rhythm and rhyme, it's useful to look at options for discovering the one right for you. Watch this informative webinar by Dominica DeGrandis, recognized expert in the application of Lean and Kanban in IT/ DevOps - and get your DevOps teams to work better! Invite your business colleagues to collaboratively use Kanban for improving throughput, quality and other business benefits throughout the enterprise. For more details visit: http://www.swift-kanban.com

1. Three ways to sync up dev
and ops dependencies
Dominica DeGrandis
www.ddegrandis.com
@dominicad
Sponsored and hosted by –
Swift-Kanban
Mountain View, CA
Sep 5th, 2012

2. Agenda:
• Introductions
• A Quick word from the Sponsor
• Three Ways to Sync-up Dev and Ops Dependencies
• Q&A
• Wrap-up

3. Today’s Panelists
• Dominica DeGrandis
Host
• Mahesh Singh, Co-founder, Sr. VP – Product,
Digite, Inc.

4. A Quick Overview
• A Pioneer in Web-based Collaborative Products/
Solutions for Geographically Distributed Teams
• Headquartered in Mountain View, CA
• Nearly 300,000 users in the Americas, Europe, Asia/
Pacific
• Products that cover Lean/ Kanban, Agile ALM, Project/
Portfolio Management
• Swift-Kanban is our flagship Lean/ Kanban product.
• Named by Gartner in ALM Market Scope report and
other ALM documents

5. Partial list of Digité Customers
Key Customers
5

6. Audience Questions
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icon.
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which Mic is requested.
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audio quality!
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7. problem
“Um, we just discovered you need to…”

8. another problem
“Sorry, project x is a higher priority...”

9. problems
1. Emergencies from unknown dependencies
2. Dependencies are not considered a priority
from another department or vendor.

10. 1. Add dependent tasks
from another team to your kanban board

11. Duplicate ticket from other
teams board placed on Ops
board.
Courtesy David Lutz

12. Dependency tags

13. Input Design Data Test Deliver
work item tagged as
impacting Ops team.

14. 3. Waiting …

15. 4. Special boxed area Courtesy Mike Burrows

16. #5
Dependency
matrix

17. How will we know?
120
100
On hold
Proposed
80
Prioritised
Ready for Dev
Dev
60
Testing
Ready for
Release
40 Released
Implemented
20
0
Courtesy Mike Burrows

18. How will we know?
projects
emergencies
Maintenance/
improvements

19. How will we know?
projects
emergencies
Maintenance/
improvements

20. 3 5 ways to sync up dev and ops
dependencies
1. Add tasks directly to other teams kanban
board.
2. Dependency tags on each others boards.
3. Waiting queue
4. Special boxed area
5. Dependency matrix for large orgs or external
vendors.

21. Questions?

22. 3 5 ways to sync up dev
and ops dependencies
Kanban Buffet: Pick and choose what works
for you and leave
the rest behind.
Dominica DeGrandis
www.ddegrandis.com
@dominicad

23. Thank You!
Dominica DeGrandis Swift-Kanban
Visit us at – Visit us at –
http://www.ddegrandis.com/ www.swift-kanban.com
Write to us at – Write to us at –
dominica@ddgrandis.com sales@digite.com