agile tour 2011 dublin

Reality of Agile in a Multinational

Oct 2011

Who we are...

• Suzie Corbett – Business Analysis Leader

• Alan Spencer – Agile Leader

• Emmet Townsend - CTO

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Reality of Agile in a Multinational - Agenda

• Agile as it scales

• The Multinational

• Bringing Agile to the Multinational...

• Discussion

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Single Team Agile

• Stickies

• One room

• Single vision

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Co-located Multi Team Agile

• Dependencies• Complexity

• Scrum of Scrums

• More tools, planning• More documentation

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Distributed Agile

• Off site product owner• Time zones & Cultures

• Full Face to Face gone

• More Tools / process / documentation• Video Conference

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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• What do you find when you look at a Traditional Multinational Enterprise?

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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• John the Product Manager needs big up front analysis and estimates to get budget (contract)

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Tell me exactly how much you need to deliver those exact

features

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• James the business guy has historically has a lack of partnership with IT due to experience with waterfall - Vendor attitude in both directions

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Here’s what I want!

Go code it!

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• Joe the PMO lead needs governance.....

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Show me artefacts of our global SDLC gates

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• Tom, the Program Manager needs all dependencies, hardware reqs... everything

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What is my critical path?

What if someone else messes up?

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• Peter the Enterprise Architect needs large upfront designs and layers of slow sign offs etc

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What will what you deliver in 12 months look like?

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• John the Release manager is responsible for controlling what gets into production.

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What are you going to deliver, and when?

Prove it’s high quality!

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• Jean from Corporate Security needs an 8 week security audit - as per every 18 month release

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Show me the design before you start!

When you’re done – let me check it!

The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• What’s the common theme here?

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The Traditional Multinational Enterprise

• What’s the common theme here?• THE PEOPLE

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• What does it take to bring Agile to the Multinational Enterprise???

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• First - consider, again...• THE PEOPLE

– What does this mean for me?– Why change, it’s OK?– What if I fail?– I don’t know how– What will my BOSS say?– This is my silo – stay away!

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• The PEOPLE are not going to change overnight• The enterprise is not going to change overnight –

above all else – patience is required!!!

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We are NOT talking about Agile Software development!

We are talking about becoming an Agile Business

This is a journey...

Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• How to start this journey

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Senior Level Support...

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Build Relationships

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Over communicate

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Be transparent with all stakeholders

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Celebrate success

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Focus on Values – not mechanics

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Invest in Training and coaching

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise

• Focus on Automation

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Bringing Agile to the Enterprise - Summary

• It is possible!!• Be patient – this will take a while

– benefits are HUGE

• It’s about people and relationships...– Individuals and Interactions over Process and Tools

• Have FUN

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Discussion…

Suzie Corbett – corbetts@dnb.comAlan Spencer – spencera@dnb.com

Emmet Townsend – townsende@dnb.com

We’re hiring – be part of our journeyvisit us at http://www.workatdnb.ie/

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