growing up - strategies for applying agile at scale

Growing Up - Strategies for applying agile at scale

Isaac Montgomery Agile Coach

Rally Software

imontgomery@rallydev.com 513.460.8730 (cell)

Isaac Montgomery Agile Coach, Rally Software

Agile “Commando” Team

Big & Complex Efforts

More logistics & support

•  Additional roles •  Additional artifacts •  Additional ceremonies •  Additional controls

* and just enough….

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Basic Building Block

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Adding Blocks

Release Planning

I-2 I-3 I-N I-1 RE

LEA

SE

Multiplying and Coordinating PO

Council

I-2 I-3 I-4 I-1

Scrum of Scrums

Scrum of Scrums

Scrum of Scrums

Scrum of Scrums

Mid-Range Planning

Upstream Ceremonies

Mid-Range Planning

Ideas (no limit)

Backlog (WIP-10)

Analysis (WIP-2)

Ready (WIP-3)

Steering Committee

Initiatives Kanban

PO Council

E X P E D I T E

FEEDACK LOOPS

Architectural Runway

Mid-Range Planning

Ideas (no limit)

Backlog (WIP-10)

Analysis (WIP-2)

Ready (WIP-3)

Initiatives Kanban

Steering Committee

PO Council

E X P E D I T E

FEEDACK LOOPS

Architecture Council

?! Spike !?

Steer rather than Aim

Shippable Increment

Architectural Element

SI SI

Shippable Increment

Architectural Element

Shippable Increment

Roadmap

SI Shippable Increment SI SI

Mid-Range Period 2

Mid-Range Period 3

Mid-Range Period 1

Supporting the teams PO Council Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums

Mid-Range Planning

System Team

Supporting from the Organization PO Council Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums Scrum

of Scrums

Mid-Range Planning

Infrastructure & Tooling

Functional CoE’s

Specialist Teams

Bringing it all together

Mid-Range Planning

Ideas Backlog Analysis Ready

Mid-Range Backlog

Shippable increment

Shippable increment

Shippable

increment

SI

Shippable increment

Shippable increment

Shippable increment

Steering Roadmap I1 I2 I3 I4

Mid-Range Period Steering

Committee

Initiatives Kanban

PO Council

Architecture Council

System Team CoE’s Infrastructure &

Tooling Team Specialist

Teams

SoS SoS SoS SoS

E X P E D I T E

And then there’s Portfolio Mgmt

Ideas Backlog Analysis Ready

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Steering Roadmap

Steering Committee

Initiatives Kanban

PO Council

Architecture Council

E X P E D I T E

Ideas Backlog Analysis Ready

SI

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Steering Roadmap

Steering Committee

Initiatives Kanban

PO Council

Architecture Council

E X P E D I T E

Portfolio Council

Strategy Market

Budgets Constraints

Thank you!