“IT often has multiple generations of technology, one overlaid on the other, customized into strange designs by unique requirements, deployment styles, and the crazy pressures of costs and deadlines.

It is the technology equivalent of the Grand Canyon’s layered and eroded geology. We are all curators of IT museums. We spend much of our budget maintaining them.” - Dan Blum

We are all curators of IT museums

Miljan Bajic, CEC, MBA, PMPAgile Coach@miljanbajic @agilemaine

An Enterprise Agile Transformation: Lessons Learned at Unum

Our IT systems are a tangled mess

“Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.” -Sam Redwine

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So, how's it going at Unum?

So, what did we learn?

We can't be “agile” if only the development teams are doing “Agile”

“Water-Scrum-Fall” is a Reality for Unum

Building an internal capability for scaling and sustaining changes is essential.