If you've been having troubles scaling Agile or Scrum, this seminar is for you ( or for someone you know)!
Scaling Agile With Multiple Teams: Using Lean to Drive Business Value and Coordinate Scrum Teams. (click title to go to main seminar page).
This Wednesday (Jan 25) 6:30-8:30 pm
BeyondAgile presents Alan Shalloway at their January Meeting.
This
program will share newly uncovered Lean-Agile principles that guide
both what to build and how to coordinate the teams that need to build
it. We will cover how to apply these principles when there are several
teams involved in creating software using either Scrum or Kanban
development approaches.
A common intent of all Agile methods is threefold:
- Build the most valuable features
- Build them efficiently
- Minimize creating extra work
The
challenge to accomplishing this is not that great for one team working
independently. However, when several teams have to coordinate, the
challenges greatly magnify. When implementing software over several
teams, we have found it to be valuable to manage the workflow from the
perspective of what will provide value to the business – not quite the
same thing as customer value. This can be used to guide how to slice
work up into smaller chunks, enabling at least quick feedback, if not
quick delivery, to ensure the right products are being built. A lot of
thrashing can take place when teams work with poor coordination –
greatly lowering efficiency. In large scale development, it is clear
that working on the right functions, and coordinating their construction
across teams is essential.
Having teams coordinate amongst
themselves has been the popular method. Unfortunately, this approach,
typified by Scrum-of-Scrums, has a dismal track record. Having
discovered the correct principles underneath large scale development, we
now believe we understand why coordinating teams as a set of peer
development organizations, can rarely be an optimal approach. Teams need
to be guided by the value they are building, while self-organizing to
improve the embedded feedback loops of development. The
self-organization techniques required vary, depending upon several
factors. These principles, not surprisingly, are directly related to the
3 intents mentioned above. This seminar will present both the
principles underneath large scale feature implementation, as well as a
few case studies demonstrating different implementations of these
principles.
Vertafore, Inc.
11724 NE 195th Street
Bothell, WA