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Evolving to Agile
Ardita Karaj @ardita_k
Jason Little @jasonlittle
transforming a public sector organization
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Our Story
April 2012 July 2013
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The Organization
Born in 1914
4,300 people organization wide
280 in IT
12 Change Agents
(6 internal, 6 consultants)
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The Only Game in Town
http://www.autoextract.co.uk/p/legislation_HSG258_COSHH_LEV.php
Legislated by government
Funded by insurance premiums
Union and non-union employees
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To Be “the best”
Business Desire IT Capability
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Transformation!
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2100000/kid-optimus-transformers-2173741-600-559.jpg
New CIO
The Setup
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CIOCIO
QMOQMO
Planning &Planning &
ArchitectureArchitecture
EAEA
CMCM
PPPP
ApplicationApplication
DevelopmentDevelopment
DevDev QAQA
Business and PMBusiness and PM
StuffStuff
PM/BAPM/BA
that’s us!
BusinessBusiness
IT
PMOPMO
The Plan
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TrainingTraining
Evolve ProcessEvolve Process
Embedded CoachesEmbedded Coaches
Tools/BDDTools/BDD
Q1 Q4
yay! we’re agile!
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Lean Change:
Applying Lean Startup to Transformation
www.leanchange.org
Executing the Plan
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“The Kanban Process”
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Visibility 1.0
Enterprise Portfolio
Board
Functional
BoardsIssue/Risk/Block
Board
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Visibility 2.0
June 2012 July 2013
Growing Up
Gimme everything you got!Gimme everything you got!
We’ll try that, but not that!We’ll try that, but not that!
pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!!pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!!
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3 Projects, 3 approaches
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pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!
Accepted coaching support
First co-located team
Dedicated team
Involved client
Visualized work, did stand-ups
Accepted all training (Behaviour Driven
Development, Agile delivery etc)
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pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!
Big plan
“Do as I say” management style
No progress metrics
No process to identify improvements
Lots of overtime
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pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!
6 months late
littered with escaped bugs
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We’ll try that, but not that!
Accepted coaching support
First co-located team
Dedicated team
Involved client
Visualized work, did stand-ups
Accepted all training (Behaviour Driven
Development, Agile delivery etc)
Project: high profile, history of late delivery with little warning, frequently
needed more budget, many “fun” meetings!
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We’ll try that, but not that!
“Helped me understand how much
work needed to get done....provided a
mechanism to find out problems
earlier”
- executive director of HR
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We’ll try that, but not that!
Cost
Scope Time
Didn’t deliver sooner but set better expectations,
team won quarterly perseverance award.
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Gimme Everything You Got!
Accepted dedicated coaching support
Team room
Dedicated team (mostly!)
Involved client
Visualized work, did stand-ups, retrospectives
Accepted all training (BDD, Agile delivery etc)
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•They used metrics and Retrospectives
•8 escaped defected on their first release.
•The whole project released 58 features on 8+ months
Gimme Everything You Got!
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Gimme Everything You Got!
Their Business client:
From:
“I don’t want to see you until you
are done with my requirements”
to
“I understand what you are doing
and I trust you”.
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Tools and Practices
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Visibility 3.0
- Enterprise portfolio board
- Issue/risk/blockers
- Release schedule
- Change team initiatives
- Project dependency board
- Working space/adhoc stuff
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Branching Out
Oct 2012 July 2013
Becoming Mature
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Socializing Agile and Lean
Stuff weStuff we
diddid
gamification
Lean Coffee Executive Lean Coffee
Study Groups
Communities of Practice
Geek Talk
Quality CoP
Evening Meet-ups
External training
ConferencesYammer
Quarterly Budgeting
Management 3.0
Innovation Games
Get Kanban
Re-Designed Workspaces
Hack the Culture!
Kanbanized HR
Lego TDD
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Socializing Agile and Lean
Stuff weStuff we
diddid
gamification
Lean Coffee Executive Lean Coffee
Study Groups
Communities of Practice
Geek Talk
Quality CoP
Evening Meet-ups
External training
ConferencesYammer
Quarterly Budgeting
Management 3.0
Innovation Games
Get Kanban
Re-Designed Workspaces
Hack the Culture!
Kanbanized HR
Lego TDD
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Hacking the Culture
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Hacking the Culture
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Helping non-IT Manage Work
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Kanban in HR, L&P and CM
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Innovation Games
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Execs Playing Get Kanban
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Management 3.0
sep
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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TDD with Lego
May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
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Help from the Community
Study groups and training
from some awesome people!
July 2013
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Where are they now?
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What Did We Learn?
Transformational Change cannot be scheduled and
budgeted for
Coaching stance is important
Too many simultaneous big changes is bad
Sometimes HR can’t fix people problems
Kanban isn’t necessarily less disruptive
Agile thinking must come with technical capability
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@jasonlittle
Thank You!
Handouts and other goodies:
FromStoneAgeToAgile.com
Get Lean Change Management at the Agile 2013 Bookstore
www.leanchange.org

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Editor's Notes

  1. - describe what we’ll talk about and how we’ll talk about it - had to leave stuff out, but there’s a website you can go to - I’ll set the stage, Ardi will dive deeper into projects and I’ll close with spreading outside of IT.
  2. - lots of inertia, seen agile come and go already - layoffs, kanban and business transformation at the same time
  3. - similar to dept of labour in the US - perceived as a government org but not really a gov org
  4. - joke was that IT couldn’t deliver anything for less than half-a-million and it was crap anyway
  5. - john’s idea to implement kanban, agile etc and do the same thing they did at the previous org by outsourcing the ‘transformation program’.
  6. - mention the broad skill, communication + professional coaching, scrum masters, agile coaches, six sigma
  7. - how we invented our own change method - refer people to Alexis’ session
  8. - first revision, failed measuring throughput 3 times - evolved into a simpler version
  9. - kanban walks - connecting functional boards together - primarily ran risks, issues, blockers at the standup
  10. Transition: by now we started seeing some results from projects, started getting some lagging metrics that were showing progress and Ardi will talk about that...
  11. handoff to the socialization
  12. - decided to only visualize work, co-locate team and involve stakeholder in stand-ups - cots project (explain ‘commerical off the shelf’ just in case!) - didn’t make sense to reverse engineer the whole product
  13. CFD provided early warning that the project didn’t take advantage of. Rod asked if they needed more time, the PM’s said no but they ended up being late anyway. - coach got in trouble for ‘raising the flag’ even tho we were supposed to
  14. removed a huge chunk of scope, didn’t meet any delivery date, went over-budget but team won perseverance award.
  15. - mention the major artifacts posted here
  16. while these projects were going on, we started branching outside of IT to remove obstacles teams were having. Jason will talk about some of those things.
  17. - show the initiatives that died, which ones we’ll talk about and which ones we won’t
  18. - show the initiatives that died, which ones we’ll talk about and which ones we won’t
  19. - another re-org, more outsourcing, half the coaching team left,