Download - 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