Back to the FutureA role-play, outfits, time travel and

all-around Agile meditation show

George AnghelacheCristian Cazan

ALE2014 Krakow

Marty is a battle-scarred Scrum Master emerging victorious at the end of a long journey of agile discovery and

adaptation. Marty vividly remembers everything from kicking off the 1st team, to the pain of working with 5

teams on the same backlog, then his first encounter with The Professor, right down to the launch of the 15th

team and the delivery of the system.

The Professor is the agile coach who taught him how to time travel and how to create his first Future Team:

effecting Forward Planning as a new way of agile planning at product portfolio level.

This is based on a real project, a 4 years programme of work that started with 1 team and grew to 15 teams,

having 150+ business and technical people delivering a very complex and highly connected system.

Follow our hero through his journey and find out how he and the teams have adapted the agile planning

concepts to work at programme level.

Back to the FutureA role-play, outfits, time travel and all-around Agile meditation show

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Global Investment Bank4 years programme of workstarted with 1 team and grew to 15 teams150+ business and technical peopledelivering a very complex and highly connected system

Forward PlanningAgile Planning at Portfolio Level

Timeline

Mobilize

GrowSoS

Growth Pain

Forward Plannin

gStable Growth Optimal

8 1529

4155

65 61 64 72 8197

119137 146 148 150 153

3 Teams15 Teams

6 Teams

10 Teams

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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Alternate Futuremore and more teams, more and more Product Owners leads to havocunsync, decision stalling, solution storming, ineffective release planning

Timeline

Mobilize

GrowSoS

Growth Pain

Forward Plannin

gStable Growth Optimal

8 1529

4155

65 61 64 72 8197

119137 146 148 150 153

3 Teams15 Teams

6 Teams

10 Teams

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Forward Planning

Portfolio Level

Sprint 1

Build

Sprint 2

Build

…

Build

Sprint 6

Build

Sprint 7

H.U.T.Deploy

Integrated Release Planning

What’s to be build?

Design AuthorityTesting Authority How we build it?

Product Owners

Now Team(each and all scrums)

Look ahead Product Planning Key technical decisions Foresee impediments

Joint Future Team(common for product)

Team MembersSMs, SENs

Solution LeadershipDesign & Test & Ops

Team Level

Product ManagerDevelopment Manager

Release Manager

Multiple Teamsworking on the same Product

Refinementeach team

Scrum of Scums

CommonDoD

CommonDoR

How we use it? When, what &how much it costs?

Integration Level

Timeline

Mobilize

GrowSoS

Growth Pain

Forward Plannin

gStable Growth Optimal

8 1529

4155

65 61 64 72 8197

119137 146 148 150 153

3 Teams15 Teams

6 Teams

10 Teams

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

• 15+ years experience in IT

• Passionate Agilista, consulting blue-chip clients in the

design and effective implementation of large scale

distributed Agile from nearshore

• Over 100 projects in consultancy, shaping, coaching,

Agile Transformation, Agile and Iterative Delivery

using 1 to 30 scrum teams

• 15+ years experience in IT

• Agile Expert with wide consultancy experience in shaping

enterprise agile engagements

• Extensive agile coaching experience, has helped over 30

teams and scrum masters in adopting agile and growing

their skills

George AnghelacheDelivery Managergeorge.anghel@gmail.comLinkedIn: georgea

Cristian CazanDelivery Manager

cazan.cristian@gmail.comLinkedIn : cristiancazan

Thank you!

This material draws inspiration from a massive community of Agile enthusiasts, our own experience and that of many clients and

companies we've engaged with through the years.

• People that have inspired us through many trainings, workshops , articles and webinars: Mike Cohn, Jeff Sutherland, Henrik

Kniberg, Ken Schwaber, Roman Pichler, Anna Forss, Serge Beaumont, Mike Beedle and many others we’ve not intentionally

forgot

• Sites and whitepapers with excellent knowledge: www.agilealliance.org; www.mountaingoatsoftware.com;

www.scrumalliance.org; www.controlchaos.com; www.implementingscrum.com; www.jeffsutherland.org; www.agileforall.com;

www.infoq.com; www.rapidscrum.com; www.slideshare.net; www.agile42.com; scrum.jeffsutherland.com;

www.agilemanifesto.org; www.scrum.org; www.wikipedia.org; www.projectmanagement.com; www.romanpichler.com;

www.agilesherpa.org; www.cathycarleton.com; www.implementingscrum.com; www.gantthead.com;

• Books that have added invaluable knowledge: Ken Schwaber - Agile Project Management with Scrum; Mike Cohn - Agile

Estimating and Planning; Mike Cohn – Introduction to user stories; Roman Pichler - Agile product management with Scrum;

Anna Forss - Confessions of a serial product owner; Ken Schwaber - The Enterprise and Scrum; Mike Cohn - User Stories Applied;

Carl Larson and Frank LaFasto - Teamwork; Serge Beaumont - Practical Tools for the Product Owner: Focus, Value, Flow; Jim

Highsmith - Agile Project Management; Jeff Patton - Story Maps; Mike Cohn - Succeeding with Agile; 37 Signals: Getting Real; Jeff

Sutherland - The Power of Scrum ; Tobias Mayer - Scrum Roles; Donald Reinertsen - The Principles of Product Development

Flow; C. Jakobsen and J. Sutherland - Scrum and CMMI – Going from Good to Great; Donald Reinertsen - Managing The Design

Factory; Scrum Sense – What every product owner should know; Ken Schwaber, Beedle Mike - Agile Software Development with

Scrum;

Attributions

• Images:

• Back to the Future characters are copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment; Universal Studios ,

Amblin Entertainment

• Images from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future

• Images from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Back_to_the_Future_characters

• Images from http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

• Images from http://www.hdwpapers.com/back_to_the_future_the_game_wallpaper_6-wallpapers.html

• Free icons used from https://www.iconfinder.com/

• Other icons from http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/

• Other images purchased from http://www.shutterstock.com/

• Acknowledgments:

• Back to the future trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvsgGtivCgs

• Back to the Future: Every Time Travel Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwTj7SwzcHI

• Back To The Future [1985] - The DeLorean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psxktpxkc6o

• Microsoft Goes Back to the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2G4Y_IaKTI

• Other videos from : http://www.retrojunk.com/

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