Where the Wild Things Are

Time: Wednesday, May 19   10:00-11:30
Speaker: Christian Vindinge Rasmusen

Being a product owner for a high performing team is not a walk in the park. As the team adopts new practices and tools their self confidence grows and the product owner needs to follow. If not, he becomes his own largest bottleneck. This case study will tell the story of what happened at Danish National IT and Telecom Agency when they came across a highly motivated and high performing team that ran too fast.

Objectives

• Learn what a product owner can, or must, be prepared to do to avoid a stampeding team

Agile Transformation at BT

Time: Wednesday, May 19   11:45-12:45
Speaker: Roger Leaton

Description coming soon.

“Things-in-Queues” and Lean Software Development

Time: Wednesday, May 19   14:00-15:00
Speaker: Kai Petersen

Lean and agile share similar goals, namely the continuous and fast delivery of valuable software without spending any effort on activities not contributing to the creation of that value. What is special about lean is it’s focus on a system and end-to-end perspective. Therefore, lean provides a number of tools to support further improving agile software development. At Ericsson we made use of a number of lean tools to understand our processes better from a lean perspective, and to identify improvement potential in these processes. The “Things-in-queues” approach is based on inventory management of requirements across the development life-cycle and analyzes the flow with cumulative flow diagrams and measures allowing to detect inefficiencies and ineffectiveness. The approach is completed by a Kanban-like solution to show the current status of the inventory levels illustrating which requirements are stuck in the process, and for how long. Another lean tool that has been used with success are value stream maps.

Objectives

• Be able to replicate and apply the concepts presented.
• Make explicit the pre-requisites for being able to use the lean analysis tools.
• Get to know about some pitfalls to consider when using the approaches.

Learnings from Agile Scaling at Ericsson

Time: Wednesday, May 19   15:15-16:15
Speaker: Dan-Magnus Svensson

In 2005 we started to question the traditional processes and methods in order to shorter leadtime(time to market) for our SW development projects. Since 2007 we have preached Agile practices and since 2009 we have added also a lean thinking and started to address the scaling of agile. This is a report on what has been done and what we have learned (dos and donts). Currently six teams with 30+ people involved. I will also tell you about our next steps of this journey, that will be involving 300+ people at three sites.

Objectives

• Experience sharing from scaling agile/lean principles applied in complex SW product development context