HP s Agile Transformation Journey. Terri Spencer Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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1 HP s Agile Transformation Journey Terri Spencer Hewlett-Packard (HP)

2 Session Goals/Learning objectives In this session, I will talk about HP s Journey in adopting Agile You will learn it is a journey and not a destination To see major benefits, my organization needs to continue the journey worldwide

3 HP HP Software HP Labs Big Data Security HP times 2 ICloud Storage Enterprise Personal Computers Printers

4 Challenges Worldwide Organization Roadmap and Strategy Agile and Nimble Agile -Flexible and Scalable Framework Adoption Communication, Training and Education Distributed Teams Collaborative Team

5 AGILE HP Agile Development Conference (DevCon 2014) Launched HP s First Worldwide Agile Development Conference June days Worldwide attendance

6 AGILE DevCon 2014 Conference held at HP Headquarters Speakers Ignite Talks Sessions divided by 4 tracks Agile Survey Affinity Groups

7 4 tracks of sessions Presentations Ignite Talks TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 TRACK 4 Agile Focused Presentation Lessons Learned & Networking

8 DevCon Car Build Retrospective Feedback from each session Using Agile for Hardware Product Development Built a car using Scrum Leveraged Feedback from Retrospectives Sprint Planning Inspect and Adapt Scrum Team

9 HP Car build with WIKISPEED - DevCon2014 Using Agile to build Hardware Products FINISHED PRODUCT WIKISPEED Joe Justice

10 DevCon 2014 Retrospective Retrospective from Conference Daily input from attendees Put posters on the walls Placed post-its in the appropriate category on the appropriate poster Learned blue Lacked yellow Liked green Loved - pink Goal: Get feedback on Conference Action: Leverage feedback for next conference integrate what we loved, learned and liked address what is lacking

11 We surveyed 1500 people who work for HP Social media and referrals was main way we got the word out Agile Survey The entire team that created, distributed and analyzed this survey did so on their own time it takes a village Sharing insights

12 What Kind of Questions Did We Ask Total of 32 question with multiple options to exit 1. Who are you? 2. What are the relevant characteristics of their projects/teams? 3. What do they think about how things are going so far? 4. What might the future hold? What Agile Support structures are available to your project? Why did your team choose to adopt Agile techniques? Where are people located on your Agile teams? What is your favorite Agile development tool and why? What practices hold the most promise?

13 Survey at a Glance Europe Asia, Africa North America, South America

14 Survey at a Glance

15 Subset of Infographic

16 Development Techniques

17 Development Methods WHAT DEVELOPMENT METHODS DO YOU USE? 90.0% 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0%

18 Sources of Information What sources of information do you consider most valuable to educate or train your team and organization about Agile? 4% 5% 5% 6% 5% 2% 4% 1% 16% 12% 1% 0% 10% 4% 5% 4% 4% 11% Books and Periodicals Websites Forums On-the-job training Internal Coaches External Consultants Conferences Internet Searches Blogs Formal / Classroom training Newsgroups Special Interest Groups Mentoring Affinity Groups HP Agile SIG HP R&D Engineering Seminars HP L&D Provided Training Agile Interest Groups Conclusion: We need to invest in all sources but those that bring hands-on experiences will generate more benefit: On-the-job training Mentoring Internal Coaches Formal/Classroom training

19 Retrospectives- Key to High Performance Comparison of HP vs. The Industry 57% 81% 35% 16% 8% 3% Got Better No Benefit Got Worse Respondents who said that Agile had No Benefit or Got Worse 95% of the responses list that they DO practice Retrospectives Only 7% mentioned the Retrospective as a best practice to be shared with other Agile Teams Changing the Organization and Agile Education and are the top 2 responses why Agile is not working HP The Industry Conclusion: We need to teach Agile teams on how to run Advanced Retrospectives, and coach them to focus their adoption and growth through introspection.

20 XP Development Fundamental XP Development Practices are Key Waterfall with an Agile crunchy shell Responses that Agile did NOT simplify their development processes: Were 2.5 x more likely to say there no benefit or even worse software quality, engineering discipline and software maintainability. Had very low adoption rates (less than 50%) of basic XP development best practices automated unit tests continuous integration refactoring and peer code reviews Poor adoption of basic development best practices was evenly split across all business units Conclusion: If your Agile adoption isn t going well, chances are good that it s because you skipped over upgrading/updating your development practices

21 Agile Adoption -Business Benefits Q: What improvements have you noted from adopting agile methods? Improvements from Adopting Agile Would you Invest? ABILITY TO MANAGE CHANGING PRIORITIES 4.0% 12.8% BETTER ALIGNMENT WITH THE CUSTOMER 3.3% 30.3% FASTER TIME TO MARKET 3.9% 29.9% INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY 6.0% 31.3% IMPROVED PROJECT VISIBILITY 3.1% 35.8% SIMPLIFY THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 12.3% 32.9% REDUCED RISK 10.3% 35.4% ENHANCED SOFTWARE QUALITY 10.3% 36.1% IMPROVED/INCREASED ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE 7.8% 39.3% 83.2% 66.5% 66.2% 62.7% 61.1% 54.8% 54.3% 53.5% 52.9% Manage Changing Priorities (83%) Better Align with Customer (67%) Faster Time to Market (66%) Increase Productivity (63%) Reduce Risk (54%) IMPROVED TEAM MORALE 12.2% 36.0% 51.8% BETTER ALIGNMENT BETWEEN IT AND BUSINESS 4.8% 46.7% 48.5% IMPROVED ABILITY TO MANAGE DISTRIBUTED 14.4% 43.4% 42.2% ENHANCED SOFTWARE 10.0% 48.7% 41.3% Got worse No benefit Got better

22 Management Participation To realize the full benefits of Agile, Management must actively participate Q: What Actions would further the adoption of Agile best practices? Action % responses Management Role Changing the organizational culture 60.1% Active Agile education and training for developers 46.8% Support Education and training of senior management about Agile development methods and the benefits of Agile 43.4% Active Management support of Agile near term planning & commit methodology, instead of requiring long term planning and commitments 40.3% Active Strong sponsorship for Agile development methods 36.7% Active Better Agile development tools 34.9% Support Implement processes that give Agile the ability to scale 31.5% Support Ability to 'Agily' plan and commit to a roadmap at the enterprise level and for external customers 30.7% Active Implementation of CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) 30.0% Support Budget for Agile transformation programs 25.1% Support Track record of successful Agile projects 22.7% Support Providing Agile governance alternatives to Waterfall 19.7% Active Customer support and collaboration for Agile development methods 18.1% Support Lower the time to transition to Agile 9.8% Support Other (please specify) 6.4% No action needed 1.3%

23 Management Suggestions We need Strong Sponsorship Helps our business AND builds better products We need more coaching & training Agile is not a magic wand

24 Summary Its not about getting the answers YOU want Take the pulse of your organization Where are you in the Agile Journey? Join the conversation and take steps towards Agile Adoption Use data & retrospectives to help your organization and teams Surveys bread crumb trail? Questionnaires Interviews Round tables Create Agile Forums Round Tables Agile Coaches Seminars Retrospectives Training Education Survey output

25 Contact information Terri Spencer Twitter Linkedin linkedin/in/terrispencer