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Scaling Agility: 5 Practices to Get
Your Organization Started
July 18, 2018
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY 2
TODAY’S SPEAKERS
Mike Hall
Senior Agile Coach/Trainer
@MikeH_agile
mike.hall@agilevelocity.com
www.agilevelocity.com
Bryan Aho
Agile Technical Coach and
DevOps Engineer
@Bryan_aho
bryan.aho@agilevelocity.com
www.agilevelocity.com
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
THE PATH TO AGILITY™
Our proven transformation framework
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4
Why Worry about Scaling?
Agile Team
Multiple Agile Teams
5
Don’t Scale Mediocrity!
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Start
Simple!
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Terms
Team
Program
Portfolio
Stories
Features
Initiatives
Typical Agile Scaling “Layers”
5 Practices to Start Scaling Agile 8
9
1. Scrum of Scrums
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2. Product Owner Sync
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2. Product Owner Sync (cont)
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3. Program Backlog
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4. Dependency Identification and Scheduling
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Developer
Story
Code Story
Developer Desktop
+
Check in or
Deliver
SCM Repository Integration
Build Server
• Monitor repository
for changes
• Update build
workspace
• Execute build
Deploy
Application
Development
Application or
Web Server
Staging
Environment
Run Validation
Tests
5. Common Integration Environment
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Mainline
System Team
Agile Team 1
Story
Story
Agile Team 2
Check newest
changes back in
Check out
most current
functionality
Check in
each story
Always current
mainline increases
velocity
Full system
integration at least
once per iteration
System
Demo
…
5. Common Integration Environment (cont)
Wrap 16
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65.6%
45.6%
41.1%
40.7%
37.3%
35.7%
33.2%
32.8%
22.8%
18.3%
17.4%
13.7%
4.9%
Company Culture
Lack of experience with Agile
Lack of executive/management support
Unwillingness of other functional groups to follow Agile
Insufficient training
Not enough personnel with necessary agile experience
Broader organizational or communications problem
Pre-existing rigid/waterfall framework
Lack of tools or insufficient tools to support scaling efforts
Perceived time and cost to make the transition
Insufficient budget
Regulatory compliance
I’m not sure
Roadblocks to Scaling Agile
* 2017 cPrime Scaling Agile study
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-VersionOne, 11th Annual State of Agile Report
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SAFe
Scrum of
Scrums Custom None LeSS Spotify DaD Nexus
45% 22.1% 13.3% 9.6% 4.4% 2.4% 2.0% 1.2%
1 2 3
* 2017 cPrime Scaling Agile study
Popular Scaled Agile Frameworks
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Start Simple!
1.Scrum of Scrums
2.PO Sync
3.Program Backlog
4.Dependency Identification/Scheduling
5.Common Integration Environment
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
Learn more about how your
organization can begin
scaling agility.
Book an Discovery Session with an
Agile Coach.
SCHEDULE A DISCOVERY SESSION
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Email: carey.young@agilevelocity.com
mike.hall@agilevelocity.com
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
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PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIALAGILE VELOCITY ACCELERATE AGILITY
THANK YOU!
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Mike Hall // @MikeH_agile

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Benefits Desired from Scaling Initiatives
46%
39.8%
32.7%
27.6%
26%
23.2%
20.1%
Enterprise agility
Enterprise alignment
Enterprise visibility
Overall productivity
Better quality
Enterprise planning
Enterprise predictability
* 2017 cPrime Scaling Agile study

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