Agile and DevOps in the Enterprise What's it all about? Is It About the Plan, Tools, Craftsmanship, Delivery or the Business? Paul Peissner

2. Planning With a Long-term Vision
Know the…
•External market potential
•Internal strengths / weaknesses
•ROI includes short & long-term costs

3. Can Tools Can Block Progress?
Insist that the tools work for you and are…
•As open, collaborative & friendly as the people
•Scalable & Sustainable
•Transparent & Secure

4. Visibility And Craftsmanship
Agility reveals quality, quickly…
•Small enough to see everything
•Continuous (peer/process) feedback
•Quick Continuous Improvements

5. How Important Is Delivery?
Explore delivery innovations…
•Ideas to - Portfolio prioritization to - Projects
•Projects to - Production to - Support
•Products to - Customers to - new ideas

6. The Business
Nothing is separated from business success…
•Competitive agility: Learn fast & adjust quickly
•Or die!

7. Agile & DevOps is
Cross-discipline and Business Focused
Planning Projects Products

8. Planning Projects Products
Considering many
future changes
Picking correctly
Resisting all
unnecessary changes
Operating effectively
Exploring the
possible changes
Delivering on-time
Gets Silo rewarded for….
Not anticipating
the right kinds of
changes
Poor selections
Not pushing-back or
shutting-down the
disruptive changes
Not business aligned
Not having or
making enough
timely changes
Missing schedules
Gets fired for….
(Traditionally)
(Traditionally)
Traditionally Managed in Silos…

9. Agile & DevOps involves…
A Maturity model with a growing number of stakeholders and
participants collaboratively involved in…
Planning Projects Products
Making SW plans
to maximize
business success!
Delivering secure,
high-quality and
Business needed SW
Exploring innovative
ways to get “done”
better & faster!
Rewarded for….
No shared planning
for success
(efficiency/scale/aligned)
Building unsecure &
unsustainable products
Not embracing
modern advantages
Fired for….

10. Some Questions To Consider?

11. Is Innovation Seasonal?

12. Managing Stonewalls &Visioneers

13. Understanding Risks And Rewards

14. Holding Back The Change Train!

15. Is The Change Train On Track?

16. Getting Your Signals Crossed

17. Reflecting On The Process

18. Dealing With Focus and Perspective

19. Questions?

20. Happy to Ponder Questions with You,
And Point You to Someone
Smarter than Both of Us!
Paul Peissner
Agile and DevOps Enthusiast
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