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1. Mardi 17 Novembre 2009
Paris, la Défense
Enterprise Agile Transformation
Elements of Success
Petra SKAPA
Senior Consultant
Valtech Technology
pskapa@valtech.fr
2. Agenda
• My Background
• Why Consider an Agile Transformation
• Patterns & Elements of Success
• Leading Change
• Conclusion & Questions
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3. Background
• Developer, Iteration Manager, Project/Program Manager, Coach
• First Agile project using Scrum in 2002 with Ken Schwaber
• Consultant to Global 1000 companies in North America
• Project delivery, coaching & agile transformation
• Insurance, healthcare, energy, insurance, leasing, retail industries
• Director & Chief Agilist with Gap Inc. Direct (GID)
• Responsible for agile transformation for e-commerce business
• 300+ ppl; US$1 billion annual revenue, 4 locations
• Senior Consultant Valtech Technology
• Focus on agile transformation
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4. Why Consider an Agile Transformation
Solving Problems
• Long time to market or inability to respond to change
• Delivering the wrong thing to customers
• High maintenance costs / quality issues
• Losing market share to competitors
Organizational Improvements
• Collaborative, self-organizing and innovative teams
• Increase employee retention and productivity
• Work more closely with business groups & customers
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5. Patterns & Elements of Success
Analysis & Recommendations Phase
• Obtain perspectives and visibility into the problems & opportunities
• Develop Vision, Investment and initial plan
• Baseline current state
• Create Agile roadmap
• Prioritize most important activities
Example Vision Statement
• “Leverage Agile methods to develop a sustainable model that will
increase solution delivery throughput and quality.”
7. Patterns & Elements of Success
Support & Approach
• Support
• Transformation leadership; training; coaching; co-development and
technical infrastructure
• Approach
• Multi-level engagement with pairing or coaching from developers to
executives
Reading books, or training, often will not result in lasting change
• What is right for your organization? Ask this…
• Experience amongst your people
• Drivers for change
• Leadership support
• Alignment & resistance or impediments to change
8. Patterns & Elements of Success
Agile Practices
Image Courtesy of Robert Norton
Interactions
9. Patterns & Elements of Success
Success depends on:
• Long-term sustainable improvements
• The right support for your specific needs
• Ensuring that you are actively managing impediments and providing
the right support
• The end goal is sustainable continuous improvement leveraging
Agile methodologies
10. Leading Change
Organizational Level
• “Heart of Change”
• Increase sense of urgency • Enable action
• Build guiding teams • Create short-term wins
• Get the vision right • Don’t let up
• Communicate for buy-in • Make it stick
John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School
11. Leading Change
Framework for Process Improvement
• “Six Areas of Agile Transition”
> Agile vision
> Organizational roll-out strategy
> Practice strategy
> Methodology support strategy
> Integration strategy
> Development environment
Cutter, Jim Highsmith, Director Agile Product & Project Mgmt Practice
12. Change Organization
Backlog
Chief Strategic Direction Owner
Agilist
Agile
Guidance
Team Agile Training 101
Agile Cookbook & Inception Toolbox
Employee 1
Organizational
Agile Health Check & Assessment
Owners
Project & Story Employee 2
Sizing
Iteration Management
Employee 2
Employee Employe External Employee External
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13. Conclusions
• Clearly understanding of drivers for change
> Change is not free
• Patterns & Elements of Success
> Assessment Phase
- Develop Vision & Roadmap
> Support & Approach
- Agile practices
• Leading Change
> Heart of change
> Change organization & framework
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