Scaled AgilePeter Charquero KestenholzFounding Partner, Microsoft Business MVP

Me and Projectum

Agile organizational types

SAFe and mapping to PPM

Live demonstrationTeams, Epics, Simulation, Reporting

Agenda

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Peter Charquero

Kestenholz

Founding Partner,

Subject Matter Expert

14 years with implementing PPM tools for

large enterprises ppmblog.org

mail me: pk@projectum.dk

#projectum

100% dedicated to Microsoft PPMand have been since 2004

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Scaled AgileIntroduction to SAFe, Bimodal and Hybrid

Before Scaled Agile there was…

Digital Transformation requires a bimodal approach

Marathon running, long cycles and waterfall approach

Sprinting, short cycles, agile approach

Hybrid mode e.g. is when both modesare used within one program

Mode 1

Mode 2

Gartner and bimodal (2014)

Traditional PPM Approach

1. Centralized Control

2. Project Overload

3. Detailed Project Plans

4. Centralized Annual Planning

5. Work Breakdown Structure

6. Project-Based funding and control

7. Waterfall milestones

Lean-Agile Approach

1. Decentralized decision-making

2. Demand management and continuous value

3. Epic only business cases

4. Rolling-wave planning

5. Agile estimating and planning

6. Agile budgeting and Release Trains

7. Objective and fact-based measures

Bimodal is a transition phase towards agile

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Hybrid Agile with PMO Gartner Bimodal Scaled Agile

Most common scenario is

some teams are agile and

some traditional but portfolio

management is traditional

(including hybrid)

For some, the portfolios are

managed in a traditional

fashion but all teams are agile

Gartner recommends that

organizations bucket projects

based on best fit

Many organizations aspire to

achieve true top-to-bottom

enterprise agility e.g. using

Scaled Agile Framework

Governance

Known tools

Acknowledge the existence and need of both approaches

Use a framework for the change such as Scaled Agile (SAFe)*

Size it according to your needs

- 3 level SAFe (recommended)

- 4 level SAFe

Agility

Multiple ARTs in Value Streams

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Users of SAFe

Key SAFe definitions

EPICS (in PPM)

A business case

Epics are containers for significant initiatives with high impact and cost. They are comparable to a business case. They have a cost and require approval.

Epics are typically defined on the following levels

• Business

• Portfolio

• Program

VALUE STREAM(in PPM)

Top down portfolio

allocation

A Value Stream is a sequence of activities intended to produce a consistent set of deliverables of value to customers for a long time

Questions to identify value streams

• What products and services does the enterprise deliver?

• How do the customers view the flow of value to them?

• What current initiatives have 30-50-70 or more devs and testers working together already, or have a high degree of interdependencies of their features and components?

KANBAN(in PPM)

Stage Gate model,

Project Plan and task status

A board to manage works on all levels of SAFe, examples

EPIC Kanban Team Kanban

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Introduction

At the end of the day agile is about a team culture

Microsoft Teams

for Office365 empowers teams to take

control and manage their work from a central location

Quick live demonstrationUsing Project, VSTS and Teams

Creating

EPICs

Simulation

and what-if

Integrate to

VSTS

Managing

the levels of

work

Microsoft

TeamsReporting

Q&APeter Kestenholz

Founding Partner & Microsoft MVP

pk@projectum.dk