From Intel Virtual Event March 2013

1. Agile Out of its Comfort Zone
Alan Gladman - Agile Coach
Ed Barkhuysen - Business Analyst
Intel Corporation IT
March 2013

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3. Agile Out of its Comfort Zone
Alan Gladman - Agile Coach
Ed Barkhuysen - Business Analyst
Intel Corporation IT
March 2013

4. Intel Around the World
EMEA
US IJKK
PRC
APAC
• Over 100,000 Employees
• 6.5k IT employees
4 • 10k+ software developers
• 4k+ people using agile development practices

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* Other trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

6. Agile @ Intel Europe & WW IT
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7. Barriers to Adoption
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Survey of 1100 Intel internal employees dated June 2012

8. Top Barriers to Adoption
 Multi-geo teams
 General resistance to change
 Lack of dedicated, long-lived teams
 Lack of ability to change organizational culture
 Job role specialization
 Lack of people with the right skills
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Survey of 1100 Intel internal employees dated June 2012

9. Kanban
To Do WIP Blocked Complete Accepted
3/5
Define WIP
limits
9 Visualise your work flow

10. Tuckman Model
 Team Development Stages
Performing
Norming
Storming
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Forming

11. Co-Location & Success
Agile Success
120
100
80
60
40 Agile Success
20
0
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Team ======= ======> Co-Location
dispersion

12. Hours Hurt More Than Miles
Nizhny
Johannesburg
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13. Team Rooms
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14. Benefits
 Speeds up communication
 Strengthens team spirit
 Enables continuous collaboration
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15. Dispersed Teams
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16. Typical Dispersed Scrum Team @ Intel
WW Geo Reps
co-located
co-located
PO & Developers
BAs Scrum Master
WW Customer
customers centre of
(+ possibly gravity
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GEO BAs)

17. Dispersed Teams Considerations
Time Zone
One team with Virtual
universal goals Artefacts
Soft Skills Communication
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Awareness

18. High Level Story Format
 As A…
(Admin, Publisher, student user, audit rep,
etc…)
 I Need…
(… to do something…)
 So That…
18 (…some value is realised.)

19. Agile Coaches
• Knowledge sharing
• Making agile the norm
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• Location
• Communities
• Training & coaching

20. Intel’s Agile Future
 Grow more agile coaches
 Invest in automation
 Scrum of Scrums
 Management education
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21. Summary
 Barriers Can Be Overcome
 Ideology, Not Methodology
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