"Evolution of Team's Remit Above and Beyond" Dragan Jojic and Alex Gray will present a case study of a team that has evolved their practices starting from Scrum and moving to a more Kanban-like flow. They will look at the reason for this evolutions and its implications. They will then talk about how the team could continue extending its remit beyond the Sprint boundaries and how it could play a more effectively part in the programme / product portfolio.

1. Evolution of Team's Remit Above and Beyond
Dragan Jojic and Alex Gray
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2. Introduction: Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Evolution of a Team’s Board
• Above & Beyond
– Evolving Downstream
– Evolving Upstream
– Evolving Up
• Q&A
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3. Introduction: Speakers
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• Alex Gray
– Background in software
development
– 14 Years working for P&O Ferries.
– Worked in Agile projects for the last
8 years.
• Certified ScrumMaster
• SAFe Programme Consultant
• Kanban Practitioner
• Agile PM Practitioner
• Certified Collaboration Architect
& Scouts, boats and cars!

4. Introduction: Speakers
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Dragan Jojic
– Background in Tech & Business
Consulting and Project Management
(Unisys, Conchango, TCS, etc.)
– Worked with Banking, Insurance
and Online Gaming clients
– 10 years in Agile:
• Certified ScrumMaster & Product Owner
• Certified Collaboration Architect
• Trained and experienced facilitator
• Agile Awards 2014: shortlisted for the
Best Agile Coach or Mentor – Process
& tennis, music and (small) cars!

5. Introduction: Pillars of the Empirical Process
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6. Evolution of a Team’s Board: The Context
• Programme of work delivered by 5 teams
• Programme goal
– Develop a new Sports website
– Integrate with existing third-party system(s)
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7. Evolution of a Team’s Board: The Original
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8. Evolution of a Team’s Board: The Original
• Work stayed in ‘In Progress’ for too long, progress not visible
• There was a lot of blocked work in a sprint
• We were regularly unable to meet sprint goals
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9. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #1a
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10. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #1a
• Why are those items blocked?
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11. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #1b
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12. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #1b
• Who is working on what?
• What is the work?
• Great the work is in done
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13. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #2
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14. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #2
• What about our definition of done, or Process Policies?
• 3rd party (external) work is still impacting us
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15. Evolution of a Team’s Board: #3
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16. Above & Beyond: Team’s Board
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17. Above & Beyond: Team’s Board
• “When is ‘Done’ really ‘Done’?”
• “It takes forever to go Live” (“Last mile at a snail’s pace”)
• “We get asked for all this stuff right at the end”
• “We have no idea what happens once we hand over to Infrastructure & Operations”
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18. Above & Beyond: Evolving Downstream
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19. Above & Beyond: Evolving Downstream
• “We never know what will hit us next”
• “New user stories are too big and not well understood”
• “How do we visualise working ahead of the current Sprint?”
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20. Above & Beyond: Evolving Upstream
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21. Above & Beyond: Putting It All Together
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22. Above & Beyond: Putting It All Together
• “What will happen after we have delivered the current release/project?”
• “How does our work fit in with what other teams are doing?”
• “How do we report progress in a meaningful way?”
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23. Above & Beyond: Evolving Up
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24. Above & Beyond: But…
• That’s a lot of boards, we don’t have the space
• We are not allowed boards or anything on the walls
• Maintaining all of those boards is a lot of work
• Will we have any time to do the actual work?
• …
• What do you think?
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast
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25. Agile Foundations coming soon…
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26. Q&A
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Thank you
Any questions?