This presentation talks about TFL's new road network project: 'LondonWorks 2.0.' The Context, and the mission of Technology and architecture that supports the mission. and the agile, specifically TFL's experiences with this new way of working.

1. LondonWorks 2.0
AGILE SOLUTIONS TO TRANSPORT PROBLEMS
Gerard O’Toole
Transport for London
May 24th 2017

2. London’s Challenge
 Expected population growth to 10 million by 2030
 There are almost 21 million daily trips on London’s road
network
 80% of all trips in London taking place on the road network
 London Buses carry 6,500,000 people each day
 Over 90% of all freight is carried on the road network
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3. Roadworks!
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4. Roadworks!
War on roadworks
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5. Road Works!
 500,000 works in London annually
 Over 100 different organisations who can dig up the road
 33 Boroughs and TfL responsible for co-ordination of road
works on their own network to mitigate disruption
 1 national specification but multiple operational COTS
products
 Many legislative and statutory requirements
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6. LondonWorks - The Backstory
 LondonWorks was originally launched in 2006
 Provides a single source for all roadworks in London
 Recognised as a brand leader at the time
 Technology moved on and the system didn’t keep pace
 Still functional but many unhappy users!
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8. LondonWorks 2.0 - New and Improved
 TfL - Surface Transport Intelligent Systems (SITS)
 SITS vision statement - To improve journey
reliability, improve customer information and give
priority to more efficient transport modes by getting
more out of the road network.
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9. LondonWorks 2.0 - New and Improved
 LondonWorks path-finder for SITS
 Open data – ability to share data easily
 Work collaboratively with our delivery partners: WS02 and
ESRI
 Maximise use of COTS products
 Use Agile methodology to deliver
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10. Our Journey
 Development stage of London Works 2
 Delivered a MPV to time and budget
 Huge interest and demand from industry users
 Will go-live in the next few weeks
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11. Benefits of LondonWorks 2
 Enhances ability to coordinate Works across London
 Richer data sets, alerting and metrics
 Improved operational awareness
 Easier data sharing
 Lifecycle Management
 Improvements to UX
 Path-finder mission a success
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12. Where are we now?
 Launch!
 New rules, processes and relationships
 Continue to Develop – new ideas
 Intelligent Client
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13. LondonWorks 2.0
ARCHITECTURE
Roland Major
Enterprise Architect
May 24th 2017

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16. LondonWorks 2.0
DRIVING CHANGE IN A COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT
Alex O’Brien
Transport for London
May 24th 2017

17. A New Beginning
 We needed a different approach
 Scrum
 General good practice: Start small, work towards
something big
 We used the LW Platform as the pathfinder
 We hit the ground running
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19. Great things we witnessed
 Rapid development progress
 We brought our stakeholders along with us
 Made 'agile' a common word amongst leadership
 A 'hardening' to setbacks and issues
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20. Great things we witnessed
 Ability to bounce back when things don't go to plan
 The potential of agile to carve new paths into the
unknown
 Mistakes are inevitable when doing brave new things
 Software development is a creative art
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21. Our Challenges
 Simultaneous app development
 Strategic platforms were still emerging
 No widespread buy-in to agile (when we started)
 No measure of agile success
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22. Our Challenges
 Deployment
 Support and Devops
 Financial / commercial governance
 MVP / COTS – manage expectations
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23. We had a great team!
 Great Developers
 Great Product Owner & Scrum Master
 Great technical leadership
 Great senior management support
 No half measures!
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24. Mind-set Adjustment
 Iterative vs sequential
 Iterative = supports creative exploration
 It is ok to not know exactly what you want
 Agile transformation is about talking to people
 Agile is 'pro-customer' - it is ok to ask for new things late
in the day
 Change in scope is an opportunity to do things better!
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25. Some quotes from
Lyssa Adkins
Coaching Agile Teams

26. C&C: Scope can be locked down
with later discoveries being
handled as change requests
against the scheduled end
date
Agile: Scope remains
flexible, and changes of any
kind are welcomed, even late
in the project

27. C&C: We can plan the work and
work the plan
Agile: Planning is essential,
plans are useless

28. C&C: Delivering on time,
within budget and on scope
equals success
Agile: Clients getting the
business value they need is
the only measure of success

29. What’s next?
We are now:
 More confident in building great, complex things
 Able to help others following in our footsteps
 Aware of the long path ahead, in order to achieve true
agility
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30. THANK YOU
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