Agile Out of its Comfort Zone

Alan Gladman - Agile Coach

Ed Barkhuysen - Business Analyst

Intel Corporation IT March 2013

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Agile Out of its Comfort Zone

Alan Gladman - Agile Coach

Ed Barkhuysen - Business Analyst

Intel Corporation IT March 2013

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US

EMEA

PRC

APAC

IJKK

Intel Around the World

• Over 100,000 Employees

• 6.5k IT employees

• 10k+ software developers

• 4k+ people using agile development practices

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Agile @ Intel Europe & WW IT

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Barriers to Adoption

Survey of 1100 Intel internal employees dated June 2012

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Top Barriers to Adoption

Multi-geo teams

General resistance to change

Lack of dedicated, long-lived teams

Lack of ability to change organizational culture

Job role specialization

Lack of people with the right skills

Survey of 1100 Intel internal employees dated June 2012

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Kanban

To Do WIP3/5

Blocked Complete Accepted

Visualise your work flow

Define WIP limits

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Team Development Stages

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

Tuckman Model

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Co-Location & Success

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

Team

dispersion

======= ======> Co-Location

Agile Success

Agile Success

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Hours Hurt More Than Miles

Nizhny

Johannesburg

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Team Rooms

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Benefits

Speeds up communication

Strengthens team spirit

Enables continuous collaboration

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Dispersed Teams

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Typical Dispersed Scrum Team @ Intel

Developers

Scrum Master

PO &

BAs

Customer

centre of

gravity

WW

customers

(+ possibly

GEO BAs)

WW Geo Reps

co-located

co-located

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Dispersed Teams Considerations

Time Zone

Virtual Artefacts

Communication

Cultural Awareness

Soft Skills

One team with universal goals

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High Level Story Format

As A…

(Admin, Publisher, student user, audit rep, etc…)

I Need…

(… to do something…)

So That…

(…some value is realised.)

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Agile Coaches

• Knowledge sharing• Making agile the norm• Location• Communities• Training & coaching

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Intel’s Agile Future

Grow more agile coaches

Invest in automation

Scrum of Scrums

Management education

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Summary

Barriers Can Be Overcome

Ideology, Not Methodology