scaling agile in an un-safe world

KUNAL ARORA SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

• DOCUSIGN

Scaling Agile in an Un-SAFe World

STEVE GRAYKOWSKI DIRECTOR, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• DOCUSIGN

Agile Training 2014

• Spotify • Centralized • Cadence • Priorities

2015

• Transparency • Capacity • Decentralized • Release Mgmt

2016

DocuSign Agile Story…

Our Challenges •  30+ Geo-Dispersed Teams •  Multiple Release Trains•  Responding to Changing Priorities•  Dependencies•  Common Nomenclature and Cadence

A Bit Un-SAFe Today •  Normalized Story Points•  Visualize WIP•  Architecture Runway•  Design Framework Locally Optimized•  Business Value Based Priorities

Scaling to Serve Global Growth

•  Agile Principles, Teams & Roles•  Synchronized Organizational Cadence•  Release Trains•  Top-Down Planning •  Bottom-Up Planning & Execution

Capacity Planning Sales & Marketing Interlock

Mission Based Roadmap

Product Priorities

Top-Down Planning – Quarterly Cadence

Vision and Strategy Transparency and Alignment

Most Valuable Features First

Team Alignment

T-40 Days • Feature roast • High level priorities matrix

T-30 Days • High level scope • Capacity planning • Release items for

consideration

T-7 Days • Bottom up planning • Final priorities • Target scope

Quarterly Planning Timeline

Feature Roast…

Priority Matrix…

Capacity Planning…

Bottom-Up Planning

Quarterly Planning IT, Legal, and Security Readiness

UX Roast

Feedback on Scope, Requirements and

Designs

Business Requirements! Scrum teams commit

to sprint-by-sprint plan

53 %

Bottom-Up Planning in the Beginning…

Then it Evolved… Sprint 12 Sprint 13 Sprint 14 Sprint 15 Sprint 16 Sprint 17

Team

2 Te

am 3

Team

1

86 %

Execution (Delivering the plan)

Program Reviews Product Council Scrum of Scrums

Weekly status reporting with Leadership

Open items from Scrum of Scrums! Program updates and

dependency reviews

Scrum of Scrums…

Release Trains – Mission Control…

T-60 Days • Product marketing

alignment •  Identify marketing

opportunities

T-15 Days • Deploy to demo • Customer testing

T-10 Days • Product update &

release notes • Demo Day (Internal)

T-0 Days • Deploy to prod • Final release notes • Marketing launch

Quarterly Release Process

What’s working well? •  Cross-Org Planning •  Better understanding of current

processes and priorities•  Metrics to track our progress

Evolution of Scaled Agile and SAFe

•  Portfolio for JIRA•  Metrics – Information Radiators•  Mission Centric Scrum of Scrums•  Architecture Runway•  Agile Coaching

90 %

Thank you!

KUNAL ARORA SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

• DOCUSIGN

STEVE GRAYKOWSKI DIRECTOR, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• DOCUSIGN