Agile for the Enterprise

Tutorials

MA Agile Release Planning, Metrics, and Retrospectives

Michael Mah, QSM Associates, Inc.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 8:30am

How do you compare the productivity and quality you achieve with agile practices with that of traditional waterfall projects? Join Michael Mah to learn about both agile and waterfall metrics and how these metrics behave in real projects. Learn how to use your own data to move from sketches on a whiteboard to create agile project trends on productivity, time-to-market, and defect rates. Using recent, real-world case studies, Michael offers a practical, expert view of agile measurement, showing you these metrics in action on retrospectives and release estimation and planning. In hands-on exercises, learn how to replicate these techniques to make your own comparisons for time, cost, and quality. Working in pairs, calculate productivity metrics using the templates Michael employs in his consulting practice. You can leverage these new metrics to make the case for changing to more agile practices and creating realistic project commitments in your organization. Take back new ways for communicating to key decision makers the value of implementing agile development practices.

MK Disciplined Agile Delivery: Extending Scrum to the Enterprise

Scott Ambler, Scott W. Ambler + Associates

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 1:00pm

Going far beyond the limits of a team approach to agile, Scott Ambler explores a disciplined, full-lifecycle methodology for agile software delivery. In this interactive hands-on session, learn how to initiate a large-scale agile project, exploring ways to extend Scrum's value-driven development approach to include both value and risk in the equation. Discover project governance practices that will increase your team's chance of success.

MN An Introduction to SAFe: The Scaled Agile Framework NEW

Ken Pugh, Net Objectives

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 1:00pm

Many organizations have achieved agility at the team level only to be unable to achieve it across teams. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides both a vision and method for how to achieve this. SAFe is the first documented framework that can be used to scale agile throughout an organization. It is a combination of lean, kanban, and Scrum—lean to provide a context for an organization, kanban to manage the flow of projects, and Scrum to provide agile at the team level. Beginning with an introduction to lean and kanban, Ken Pugh explains why they are required for agile at scale.

Concurrent Sessions

AT1 Large Agile Transformations: A Roadmap for Lasting Change

Ole Jepsen, goAgile

Jenni Jepsen, goAgile

Thu, 11/14/2013 - 10:15am

Agile methods have gained the attention of leaders as a way to speed time to market and increase motivation. Businesses are looking to agile as a way to achieve organizational change so teams deliver more value faster, and where people’s pride and joy of work are enhanced. However, we know from extensive experience that agile practices by themselves will not lead to this kind of an organizational transformation. What does it take?

AT5 Transforming to Enterprise Agility: A Leadership Practicum

Phillip Cave , SolutionsIQ

Thu, 11/14/2013 - 2:15pm

The pace of innovation, often hastened by agile software development, has begun to pull entire organizations into the desire and need for more agility. Phillip Cave shares his experiences transforming organizational behavior at the department and enterprise level. He describes the data, tools, approaches, and practices he has used to help leaders and organizations reach higher levels of agility. Going further, Phillip explores the leadership skills needed at all levels of the organization to achieve lasting change.