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UNORTHODOX AGILE

TIM ARTHUR, DISTINGUISHED R&D PROGRAM MANAGER, SAS

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Agile practitioners are familiar with standard measurements such as burn-ups,

burn-downs, and velocity charts along with others in their toolbox. It is though,

a box. What about non-standard measurements? Agile encourages innovation

and a different mindset. This presentation will reveal three non-standard

measurements that prompt a new line of thinking and different ways to

improve your oversight and effectiveness. You’ll be able to apply these back at

the office using available data.

Presentation abstract

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Tim Arthur (PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP) has been with SAS 16 years and serves as

a Distinguished R&D Program Manager. He was formerly with IBM (17) and

the USAF (4). He’s managed multiple, global, 24×7 mission critical projects,

successfully. His experience with management, project, and program

management converge into his overall role as SAS Agile Champion, trainer,

coach, and scrum-master. Outside of SAS he has lectured at Duke, Stanford,

and has been asked to review Agile books. He earned his BS from Nova

Southeastern and MS from Georgia Tech. He enjoys writing about his work

experiences such as through the SAS.com blog, Sys-con, Stanford Strategic

Execution conference, PMI Global Congress, and ProjectManagement.com

(the 5 Ws, risk, project management myths, and collaboration). He’s an avid

photographer, biker, kayaker, and walker, co-leader of the NC PMI Agile

Community, and co-founder of JOYAMP.com.

Speaker bio

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WELCOME!

Key assumption test:

The audience is very familiar

with agile scrum.

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SPEAKER

• Tim Arthur ([email protected])

• USAF, Nukes

• IBM, PCs

• MS GaTech Management of Technology

• SAS, Agile Champion

• PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP

• Hobbies: biking, kayaking, photography, non-profits

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About SAS

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SAS

• World’s vendor in the business intelligence market

• Customers in 141 countries

• 13,775 employees

• 39 years of growth

• Loyal customer and

employee base

• 93 of top 100

companies on

Fortune Global 500 are are

SAS customers

http://www.sas.com/en_us/company-information.html#stats

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SAS GIVES YOU THE

POWER TO KNOW®

• Originally served agricultural customers

• Now serving multiple industries

• One of our core values: Swift and agile

http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html (Industries)

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Agile Metrics

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SHOUT OUTS

• How many different agile measurements exist?

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AGILE

MEASUREMENTS

• North of 20

• Too enamored?

• Agile?

• Box mentality.

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OBJECTIVE

Move from to thinking.

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QualityQuality

Quality stems from team

health, successful demos,

and transparency in

tracking & reporting.

+ Good engineering practices

Technical debt reduction

CI & test automation

Code reviews

Others

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VALUE DRIVERS

Demos

(Scope)

Progress

(Schedule)

Teaming

(Resources)

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Teaming

(Resources)

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GREAT TEAMS

DRIVE GREAT AGILE

Results

Leaders

Starters

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TEAMING INDEX SENSE WHEN THESE OCCUR, OR GET SKIPPED.

Dynamic Questions

Training Is the whole team trained?

Are there training niche opportunities?

Team agreements

(social contract)

Are they in place?

Honored?

Updated?

Retrospectives Used often enough?

Action items listed?

Actions tracked?

Scrums attended?

Active and transparent feedback?

Morale

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Demos

(Scope)

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SUCCESSFUL

DEMOSWORKING ASSUMPTIONS

1. A greater percentage of the planned stories are completed (done done)

2. Demos are scheduled and they occur

3. The product owner is delighted with the results of the demo

4. Stakeholders attend and provide valuable feedback

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Missing or unsuccessful demos

It is unlikely that customer expectations will be met.

Successful demos

There is a more likely chance that customers will be happy.

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DATA EXAMPLE A OR B?

Demo Date Demo

held?

Product

owner score

1 2015-01-15 N -

2 2015-02-15 Y 80%

3 2015-03-15 N -

4

5

6

A BDemo Date Demo

held?

Product

owner score

1 2015-01-15 Y 60%

2 2015-02-15 Y 70%

3 2015-03-15 Y 75%

4

5

6

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Progress

(Schedule)

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DILEMMA 1 THE REAL QUESTION

• Do you ask your team to track story points (or equivalent)?

• Do they?

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DILEMMA 2 CARDINAL RULE

Thou shalt not measure velocity across teams.

https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-story-points-for-sprint-planning

And as Mike Cohn would say:

Velocity is a useful long-term predictor

but is not a useful short-term predictor.

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NORMALIZE STORY

POINT DATA

Regardless of complexity and “story point” value,

each story = one point

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NORMALIZE

PROJECT

SCHEDULES

Release content aligns to team capacity

and stories that have been committed to a specific

release are noted as such.

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NORMALIZE

PROJECT

SCHEDULES

Regardless of release size,

all projects have a release start and end date.

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% Stories

designated for

the release

that are

completed

% Time that is elapsed into this release

Above the dotted

line may indicate

things are going

well Below the dotted line may

indicate we are behind or

over-committed

100

0 100X

Y

Dashboards can be done for one team, sub-sets, or all teams.

ELI: ENTERPRISE LEVEL INSIGHTS CHART

Less sure about scope More sure

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OBJECTIVE

Move from to thinking.

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So then1

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But we’ve always done it this way.

I like the ideas but they won’t.

We don’t have time.

Things are ok now.

I can, whenR

ButR

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POPULAR, ANNUAL

REPORT FROM A

TOOL VENDOR

• Representative? Probably.

• A few thousand polled each

year

• Research conducted by

analysis.net

• Summary at right does not

include all agile methods

(does not total to 100%)

http://www.versionone.com/

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SEARCH TEAM: AGILE

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=agile (2004-9/2015)

4582

scrumban

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Form teams

of two

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What can I propose or enact immediately?

1At our next sprint or release boundary?

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Thank you!

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