FAST & PREDICTABLE

Amy Farrow | Steve Greene

Agile 2008 Conference, Toronto August 2008

A Lightweight Release Framework Promotes Agility through Rhythm and Flow

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Why should you listen to us?

Agility @ Scale

Predictability through Rhythm & Flow

What do we mean by scale?

43,600+ Customers

1,000,000+ Subscribers

150 Million+ transactions per day

30+ Scrum Teams

3 Major Releases per Year

1 Codeline

How did we get here?

Big Bang Agile Transformation

How do you optimize the release in this environment?

Guiding Goals and Principles

predictability consistency

on-time delivery

simplicity rhythm

flow

scalability

team empowerment frequent delivery

optimize the whole of the release

What did we come up with?

Lightweight Release Framework

simple, unambiguous

Light on Milestones

Release Kickoff Alignment from the start

Highlight business objectives for the release

Light on Milestones

Feature Freeze

All new features meet “done” criteria

Start of Release Sprint, transition from “potentially releasable” to releasable

Light on Milestones

Release Freeze End of Release Sprint, product and release meet release criteria

Light on Milestones

Release!

Release deployed to all customer-facing environments

Release Manager

Scrum Master for the release

Release Manager

Servant Leader

Release Manager

Partnership with teams

Engaged from inception to deployment

Release Manager

Resolve systemic release issues impacting team success

Promote regular visibility and analysis into overall health and state of the release

Visibility & Transparency

Release Health

Daily Release Health & Quality Visibility

Release Health

Release-by-Release Comparisons

Rhythm & Flow

Rhythmic Cycles

Rhythm

Flow

Ritual

Feb

Release

Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

Release & Sprint Rhythm

Release

Benefits of Framework

On-time Releases

Elimination of gaming of dates

Organizational alignment

“Just enough” structure to enable agility

Team empowerment

Predictable release size

Optimizes the whole of the release

Builds trust internally and with partners & customers

What’s next?

Continued scalability & growth

Promoting a cyclical rhythm across the entire Technology & Products organization

Optimizing how work flows within and across the Technology & Products organization

Interfacing with non-Agile teams