Selling Agile across the Enterprise

scaling-agile-adoption Accepted Talk 60 Mins Intermediate communication kpi hr finance beyond-it scale organisation scaling enterprise
Evan Leybourn
Evan Leybourn
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Directing the Agile Organisation
location_city Bengaluru schedule Mar 26th 10:30 - 11:30 AM place Grand Ballroom 2

You’ve started on Agile project. You've probably got IT management on board. You've read the manifesto. You've got a wall covered in post-its. You’re probably not using pair programming but you’re following most other Scrum and XP practices. But now you have a problem. Operations, HR and finance can’t keep up. Ops is having problems (or just refusing to) deploy each iteration. HR won’t let you form self-organising teams and don't know how to write KPI’s to support collaborative work practices. And finance wants a 3 year budget with fully costed initiatives.

Like many cultural problems, change comes from understanding. This presentation will explain how non-IT business functions operate and why they have legitimate problems with Agile delivery.

We won’t stop there however.

By understanding your business, this presentation will provide you with the tools you need to align your corporate business functions to your agile development approach. From improved communication integrated sales, rolling budgets, agile KPI’s and aligning to revenue drivers. You will learn how to build a truly agile organization.

 
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Outline/Structure of the Talk

*** Context ***
There is a natural evolution to business agility. This is the precept behind everything I've learnt over the last 10+ years in applying agile across the business. From this, I'll be showing how IT can help non-IT business functions support an agile delivery model. That is, as an agile practitioner in IT, how can you position agile in such a way as to get the support of the wider business in its adoption. Ultimately, in cases of high agile maturity, this can extend into developing agile business practices across the organisation outside of IT (although that is not the main thrust of this presentation). 
 
This is intended to be a practical discussion on how organisations operate. There are three parts to the presentation (roughly a third of the presentation will be spent on each). 
 
*** Section 1. A high level overview of the way non-IT business functions work and why ***
  • How does Finance operate, and why do we have to deal with the dreaded annual budget cycle?
  • What does HR do and why can't they keep up?
  • Why do the sales team oversell to our customers leaving us to fix up their mess?
  • Why do we have to fill in so many forms to release to production?
*** Section 2. How agile can align to these functions, and how they can align to agile ***
  • Applying agile to Finance through the use of rolling budgets, financial transparency and opex vs capex (I promise I'll make capex interesting)
  • Applying agile to HR through by helping them develop agile KPI's and recruitment strategies as well as giving them access to agile tools (such as Kanban) to help streamline their processes
  • Aligning the sales cycle with the development cycle
  • From "small changes" to devops
*** Section 3. Communication strategies that participants can take back to their organisation to bridge the gap between IT and the rest of the business ***
  • Preemptive agile alignment
  • Introduction to negotiation strategies and tactics   
  • Using conflict resolution strategies to defuse business silos.
 
I will ensure there is ample time for Q/A during the presentation.

Learning Outcome

  • How corporate functions work the way they do
  • How to communicate with corporate functions and help them understand Agile
  • How to sell agility across the organisation

Target Audience

Agile coaches, managers and practitioners

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Links

http://theagiledirector.com

July 2014, Agile 2014 (America) - Breaking down the barriers (http://agile2014.sched.org/speaker/eleybourn)
June 2014, Agile Australia - Agile Engineering / Agile Business Workshop (https://a.confui.com/-5KvM42MA)
May 2014, International Testing Conference - Agile Testing
Mar 2014, Australasian Software Engineering Conf - Autopsy of a failed project
Feb 2014, Agile India - From Lean Startup to Agile Enterprise / Let’s Kill an Agile Project (http://present.agileindia.org/user/evan-leybourn)
Nov 2013, Future Enterprises Summit - The Rise of the Connected Enterprise
Nov 2013, Australian BI/DW Conference - Agile Business Intelligence
Sep 2013, Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking (Australia) - Agile Business Management / Let’s Kill an Agile Project
Sep 2013, PMOz (Australia) - Agile Business Management / Let’s Kill an Agile Project
Jul 2013, Intel APAC Agile Conference (Malaysia) - Agile Keynote
Jun 2013, Agile Australia (Australia) - Let’s Kill an Agile Project
Jun 2013, XP 2013 (Vienna) - Agile Business Management
Aug 2012, Agile DC (America) - Agile in the Australian Public Service
Apr 2012, PMI Colombo (Sri Lanka) - Agile in the Australian Public Service
Feb 2012, Agile India (India) - Autopsy of a failed project / Agile In the Australian Public Service (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_xmosGzaI)
Nov 2011, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Free as in Kittens (CTO of Open Source)
Nov 2011, Malaysian CIO Conference - Agile Business Management
Jul 2011, Malaysian Open Source Conference (Malaysia) - Open Source Business Intelligence
Jun 2011, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing 2011 (Singapore) - Open Source Business Intelligence
May 2011, BI Executive Forum (Canberra) - BI in the APS
Sep 2010, OSSPAC (Australia) - Open Source Business Intelligence
Nov 2008, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Advanced SQL / OSS Licensing
Jun 2008, Software Process Engineering Conference (Singapore) - OSS Toolchain
May 2008, CeBIT - Open Source Business Intelligence
Nov 2007, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - SQL Tips & Tricks
Dec 2006, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Data Warehousing HOWTO
Dec 2005, Open Source Developers Conference (Australia) - Commercial Open Source Software

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