Giuseppe de Simone - The Mango Tree: How to make your Company Agile

HOW TO MAKE YOUR COMPANY AGILE

AKA THE MANGO TREE

Agile Tour VilniusOctober 8th, 2015

1.Decide which

Mango you want

to collect

The starting point

Why by Ksayer1/ CC BY 2.0

Train Managers

The Transformation Team

Transformation Team

Transformation Backlog

Focus on People’s Skills

It’s not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

W. E. Deming

Cross-functional Teams

3. Start growing small plants

Run experiments

Run experiments

Ref. Mike Cohn – Succeeding with Agile, Software Development Using Scrum

Scaling up

Scale up learning

The Cultural Change

Value by Got Credit / CC BY 2.0

The Cultural Change

Mixed messages by Rich Anderson / CC BY 2.0

Self-Organization

Self-Organization

Culture follows structure!

Subordinate every structure to the purpose of delivering value as fast as possible!

Make your Transformation Self-sustainable

› Internal Coaches

› Communities of Practice

› HR

Green and sustainable by Rick Harris / CC BY 2.0

Empirical Approach

Summary

Failure patterns

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

W. E. Deming

Fruits

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12A 13A 13AFD1 13AFD1 MP

Days

Releases

Leadtime in development phases

One Pager

Feature Study

Execution

Fruits

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Number of TRs

Number of months after GA

Customer TRs trend

LIIMS 24FP2

LIIMS 12A

LIIMS 13A

LIIMS 13AFD1

The Inevitable DiscoveryAgile development will not

solve any of your problems. It will just make them so

painfully visible that ignoring them

is harder.

Ken Schwaber

Giuseppe De Simone

giuseppe.desimone@ericsson.com

@giusdesimone

http://it.linkedin.com/in/giuseppedesimone

http://www.slideshare.net/giusdesimone

http://evolutionaryagility.blogspot.com

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