1. Organizational Agility
Chandan Lal Patary
patarychandan@gmail.com

2. How can Organization Bring Agility into
the system?

3. Agility Influencing Factors?
Customer Involvement
Retrospect
Team members are dedicated
Top management support
Time to market
Infrastructure
Test driven development and automation
Continuous sharing and learning
Refactoring and impediment removal

4. Agility Comes From Excellent Team Work

5. Heavyweight process vs Lean ? For Agility

6. Adaptability

7. Why we want to become agile?
What kind of agility we are targeting?
Below are the few
Can we push the new product into market as fast as we can? (Cycle time
reduction)
Improved Employee and Customer satisfaction by delivering right,
quality product?
Reduce development cost?
 Increase the percentage of defects detected in testing before
production release

8. Path to achieve agility
Continuous delivery
Value generation,
Early or frequent deliveries
Measuring progress via deliverables
Optimizing the work continuously
Customer satisfaction

9. Ways to achieve Agility :
Cockburn's (2001) :1) effective, 2) steerable, 3) rulebased, 4) (about) people, and 5) communication
Anderson (2003):1) speed
Larman (2003):
responsiveness
1)
speed
2)
flexibility
and
3)
Schuh (2004): 1) speed, 2) people, 3) empowerment, 4)
change, 5) feedback, and 6) value.
Lyytinen (2006): 1) feedback, 2) adaptability, and 3)
collaboration.

10. Ways to achieve Agility
Subramaniam (2005):1) feedback, 2) adaptability, and 3)
collaboration.
Ambler (2007) : 1) iterative, 2) incremental, 3)
self-organizing, 4) less process-driven, 5) collaborative, 6)
cost-conscious, 7) (about) speed, and 8) customer-driven
IEEE (2007): 1) iterative and 2) responsive

11. 4P Principle: lean transformations

12. Deliver as Fast as Possible
• Production to market release time has to shrink
• Much waste can be attributed to people waiting for constrained resources.

13. Agile transformation
• Transformation for agility

14. Competency landscape
 Automation – scripting and coding
 Use Open source
 Automation tools
 System view
 Technical excellence
Skill , Competency, Knowledge

15. DevOps and Agility

16. Doctor say more frequent meal good for
Digestion !

17. Self Organizing team
 Dependency reduced from management
 Ownership of
responsibility)
the
work(Accountibility
and
 Decision making from bottom ( minimize
approval)
 Flat organization, no hierarchy
 Team sprit, common goal , passionate , trust,
transparency
 Collaboration, Communication ,commitment

18. Seven waste of Software Development
 Partially done work
 Extra processes (or extra steps)
 Extra (unwanted) features
 Time involved with task switching
 Time spent waiting
 Tracking down information or needing approvals
 Time spent correcting defects

19. Movie “300 “
 Small and highly competent team members
 Power of a patriotic army defending native soil
 Symbol of courage against overwhelming odds
 Self motivated and self driven team members

20. Think Small
 Small Team
 Small release
 Small design
 Small documentation

21. Discover the agility factor…..