Craig chats with Steve Elliott, the founder and CEO of Agile Craft and they discuss:
- Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility
- Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey
- Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile and predictable
- If you want business agility you have to hinge the technology into the business
- Sometimes it takes a few attempts for agile transformations, like tipping over a Coke machine (and unlike tipping a cow), you need to lead with results and then work on cultural change to be successful
- If the leader of an Agile transformation left the organisation, would they go back to the old way or is Agile part of their DNA – if they would go back they have not been transformed
- The scaling Agile frameworks are relatively new and evolving with major changes, without these though there is a lot of chaos and you need them to do Agile at Scale in a large company
- The companies that win are the ones where the technology and the business are in sync, you need some process to do that
- If we do more experimentation with the scaling methods and some of the lesser frameworks get traction, the community will be better for it
- SAFe is the leader in the scaling space, but LeSS is very popular in Europe
- Startups are all about business agility, because long feedback cycles are deadly, we need to be able to make decisions and react quickly
- Amazon is a good technology company that through business agility threatens everyone
- The technology curve is only going to accelerate; physical, digital and biological is going to come together and the application is going to disrupt many businesses very quickly
- We still need more data to improve the software process using machine learning to do simulations to get better quality, predictability and value
- Agile Craft brings together the product strategy, the team ALM tooling and the business strategy together from the top down, and is multi-modal (it works with all levels of Agile maturity) to nudge teams across to Agile practices faste. The tool has automated coaching built in (no, they have not built a robot coach, yet…!)
TheAgileRevolution-139 (45 minutes)
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