Small is Beautiful – Scaling Agile to Complex Multi-Project Environments
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Presentation |
Intermediate
Methodology and Business
Room:
Lab 4
Timeslot:
18.09.08 14:15
Speaker: Sanjiv Augustine
Abstract
Over the past years, successful practitioners have applied Agile methods like Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP) on individual projects to cut development lead times, improve product quality and reduce engineering cost. For instance, time-to-market reductions in the range of 30-50% have been reported by leading companies. Now, as these practitioners seek to expand on their initial successes, they face many complex obstacles posed by the realities of today's business environment: multiple organizational silos, distributed teams, interfacing with 'non-agile' vendors and customer organizations, continued cost cutting, complex product suites, and the pressing need for innovation.
How can agile practitioners apply the fundamental tenets of Agile - integrated small teams, small releases, sufficient-to-purpose, etc - to provide the next round of significant returns from their Agile investment? Sanjiv Augustine of LitheSpeed will lead a discussion on adopting a philosophy of smallness within bigness to allow the scaling of Agile practices beyond individual projects to deliver process improvements in complex environments with multiple projects.
Outline
- Small Teams
- Integrated Agile Team
- Scaling Agile Teams
- Stable Teams
- Small Releases
- Realigning the Portfolio
- Incremental Funding
- Managing the Flow
- Small Governance
- Self Management
- Team Productivity
- Portfolio Coordination
- Organizational Process QA
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Sanjiv AugustineSanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed, an innovative Agile and Lean training, consulting and product development company, and an industry-leading agile and lean expert. He is a co-founder and board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the author of several publications and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group. He presents regularly at several agile conferences and user groups worldwide, and project management conferences including Project World and Project Summit. Sanjiv has assisted clients in deploying agile and lean methodologies at many institutions large and small. As a management coach and consultant, he has advised in the enterprise rollout and adoption of Scrum at several Fortune 250 companies. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people and coached numerous project teams.