4. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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
14. 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!!
@ardita_k @jasonlittle
3 Projects, 3 approaches
15. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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)
16. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
pfff, Agile? Leave me alone!
Big plan
“Do as I say” management style
No progress metrics
No process to identify improvements
Lots of overtime
18. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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!
19. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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
20. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
We’ll try that, but not that!
Cost
Scope Time
Didn’t deliver sooner but set better expectations,
team won quarterly perseverance award.
21. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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)
22. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
•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!
23. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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”.
27. Oct 2012 July 2013
Becoming Mature
@ardita_k @jasonlittle
28. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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
29. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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
40. @ardita_k @jasonlittle
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
- 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.
- lots of inertia, seen agile come and go already - layoffs, kanban and business transformation at the same time
- similar to dept of labour in the US - perceived as a government org but not really a gov org
- joke was that IT couldn’t deliver anything for less than half-a-million and it was crap anyway
- john’s idea to implement kanban, agile etc and do the same thing they did at the previous org by outsourcing the ‘transformation program’.
- mention the broad skill, communication + professional coaching, scrum masters, agile coaches, six sigma
- how we invented our own change method - refer people to Alexis’ session
- first revision, failed measuring throughput 3 times - evolved into a simpler version
- kanban walks - connecting functional boards together - primarily ran risks, issues, blockers at the standup
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...
handoff to the socialization
- 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
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
removed a huge chunk of scope, didn’t meet any delivery date, went over-budget but team won perseverance award.
- mention the major artifacts posted here
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.
- show the initiatives that died, which ones we’ll talk about and which ones we won’t
- show the initiatives that died, which ones we’ll talk about and which ones we won’t
- another re-org, more outsourcing, half the coaching team left,