Presentation given at Dallas Agile Leadership Network Meetup on 24th October 2013. http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-ALN/events/144390642/

1. ADOPTING THE SCALED AGILE
FRAMEWORK:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
EM CAMPBELL-PRETTY, GM STRATEGIC DELIVERY
@PrettyAgile
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2. THE EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
Average delivery cycle time down from 12 month to 3 months
Frequency of delivery increased from quarterly to fortnightly
Cost to deliver down 50%
95% decrease in product defects
100% projects delivered on time and on budget
Happy project sponsors
Happy teams

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/duluoz_cats/5300924038/
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4. AGILE PILOT

5. 5 Wagile Teams
4 Projects

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7. Image source: http://www.vectorloft.com/img/purple-person.jpg

10. THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
The ART is a long-lived, self-organizing team of agile teams
that delivers solutions
• A virtual organization of 5 – 12 teams (50-100 individuals) that
plans, commits, and executes together
• Common cadence and normalized story point estimating
• Aligned to a common mission via a single program backlog
• Operates under architectural and UX guidance
• Produces valuable and evaluate-able system-level Potentially
Shippable Increments (PSI) every 8-12 weeks
Define new
functionality
Implement
Acceptance
Test
Deploy
Repeat until further notice. Project chartering not required.

11. THE BEST WAY TO START
When you find the first train, go “All In” and “All at Once”
Mon
Tue
Thu
Release
Planning
Fri
Enterprise
Scrum
Master
Quickstart
Enterprise
Product
Owner
Quickstart
 Train everyone at the
same time
 Same instructor,
same method
 Cost effective
 Align all teams to
common objectives
 Commitment
 Continue training
during planning
Tool training
Training:
SAFe
ScrumXP
Wed
You
Are
Agile,
Now
 Orientation for
specialty roles
 Open spaces
 Tool training for
teams

12. HOW WE
STARTED

13. STRUCTURING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
Pipeline
Services
Deployment
Services
Development Services
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14. STRUCTURING THE WORK
EPICS
FEATURES
STORIES

15. VISUALISE THE PROGRAM PORTFOLIO

16. SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER
Source: Agile Portfolio and Program Management in the Scaled Agile Framework, Dean Leffingwell, Agile Melbourne Meetup, 15/02/12

17. SCALING THE PRODUCT OWNER
EPIC OWNER
FEATURE
OWNER
PRODUCT
OWNER

18. OPERATING THE AGILE RELEASE TRAIN
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19. SCALING THE SPRINT

20. RELEASE PLANNING
Cadence-based PSI/Release Planning meetings are the “pacemaker”
of the agile enterprise
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Two days every 8-12 weeks
Everyone attends in person if at all possible
Product Management owns feature priorities
Development team owns story planning and high-level estimates
Architects, UX folks work as intermediaries for governance,
interfaces and dependencies
• Result: A committed set of program objectives for the next PSI

21. ‘PSI-LITE’ BECOMES UNITY DAY
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22. THE PROGRAM BOARD

23. THE FEATURE WALL

24. CONTINUOUS INTER-TEAM COORDINATION
Agile teams self-manage dependencies and resolve risks
Agile Team 1
Join other
team scrum
ceremony
Dependent
story
Agile Team 2
• Agile team members may visit
other team’s…
• Backlog grooming: to see what’s
coming next sprint, request
adjustments
• Sprint planning: request
adjustments
• Daily standups: follow up on
execution
• Team Demo: summarize current
stage

25. SCALING COMMUNICATION:
THE DAILY COCKTAIL PARTY
9:00am
9:15am
930am
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9:45am

26. THE SYSTEM TEAM
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27. FEATURE TEAMS
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28. SAFE SCRUM / XP

30. LEAN PRINCIPLES
Respect for
People
Product
Development
Flow
Kaizen
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31. RESPECT FOR PEOPLE
Net Promoter Score
Source: http://www.netpromotersystem.com/

32. KAIZEN MINDSET
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Source: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/SpotifyScaling.pdf

33. THE FOUNDATION IS LEAN LEADERSHIP

34. A LITTLE TASTE OF OUR CULTURE
http://www.prettyagile.com/2013/05/the-power-of-haka.html

35. WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE
EDW AGILE RELEASE TRAIN?
Check out my blog: www.prettyagile.com
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A Perspective on the Scaled Agile Framework
What Happens to Project Managers When You Implement SAFe?
Book Clubs at Work – Are You Serious?
Bookshelf
Leading Through Vulnerability
The "Bubble Up" Approach to Scaling Retrospectives
The Power of Haka

36. QUESTIONS?