4. DSDM Atern Principles, 2008
Focus
on
the
Deliver
on
time
Collaborate
business
need
Build
Never
incrementally
Develop
compromise
from
firm
iteratively
quality
foundations
Communicate
Demonstrate
continuously
and
control
clearly
5. What is agile really all about?
• Empowered
individuals
• Collaboration
Motivated
• Democratic
decision-‐making
Individuals
and
transparency
Self-‐
organizing
• Shorter
feedback
cycle
x-‐ • Manage
changing
priorities
functional
• Increased
productivity
Teams
Agile
Businesses
• Higher
ROI
• Faster
time
to
market
• Better
User
Experience
6. Why is it so hard?
52
39 34
%
Organizational
Culture
%
Resistance
to
Change
%
Management
Support
7. Our Context
• Consumer Internet space
• Critical success factors
– Innovation
– Speed
– UX
• Agility is more about results
than beliefs, labels or rituals
8. Agile and Scrum Adoption
Program (“ASAP”)
Facilitate
Focus
Framework
• center-‐ • “be
agile”
• generally
wide
agile
rather
label-‐
adoption
than
“do
agnostic,
agile”
but
result-‐
oriented
10. Establish credibility
• Agile is about democratic decision-making and
self-organizing teams, how can we ‘impose’ it
top-down?
• Don’t preach Agile. Solve specific problem(s).
• Don’t boil the ocean. Create beachheads.
• Show real results.
• ROI ≠ $$$ Saved.
• ROI = $$$ Earned
11. Scaling Up
Community
Internal
community
of
Org
Structure
practitioners
and
enthusiasts
Roles
and
Training
responsibilities
Expert
talk
series
–
bridge
the
gap
between
Intact
team
training
Process
Goal-‐setting
theory
and
practice
Role-‐specific
training
Performance
Product
Development
External
community
management
Specialized
Coaching
Process
connect
Compensation
and
Executive
Briefings
Common
Metrics
rewards
Strategy
Professional
Tools
Development
13. Self-Sustaining
• Starting-up is easy; sustaining is tough!
• Strength of transformation is only
tested when scaffolds are taken-off
• Implement agile practices that align
with results you want
14. What are we learning?
• Credibility is extremely important
• Scaling up ≠ 100% Adoption
• If results grow, processes will sustain!
• Remember – the goal still is to deliver
real business value
15. References
• The ASAP Journey – Tathagat Varma, Scrum
Bangalore Meetup, 2012
• The Continuing Adventures of Yahoo’s Agile
Transformation – Keith Nottonson, Agile India 2012
• State of Agile Development Survey 2011,
VersionOne
• Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise – Gabrielle
Benefield, 2008