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These are not the practices you are

looking for

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Who are we?Steve HandyTechnical Director

@HandyHSD

Mike MacDonaghTechnical Director

@mikemacd

We’ve been:

• Agile coaches (team and at-scale)

• Product Managers

• Architects (System, Solution and Enterprise)

• Requirements Managers

• Project Managers

• Programme Managers

• Portfolio Managers

• Startup owners

“We work with government departments and companies large and small, mainly in the UK and US

but increasingly in Europe through our partners”

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Star Wars?● The movies make an interesting metaphor for

Software Development Process Improvement

● Don’t worry, we won’t cover the prequels

● There’s no Jar Jar Binks!

● We don’t have a bad feeling about this



A New Hope

The emergence of agile


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A New Hope

Got people iterating!


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A New Hope

Changed the industry for the better, for good


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A New Hope

Put customer needs first and foremost


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A New Hope

We Trusted professionals to get the job done


13:15 Trust. How to develop and maintain trust in teams, business partners and

customers – Antonio Specchia

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A New Hope

Wide adoption and considerable success


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A New Hope

Agile Manifesto & Principles

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more


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But…● Organisations struggle to apply agile and lean concepts

– Especially at scale

● Conflict between Programme Management and Agile Teams

● Lots of good practice, but not joined up

● Mastery is sometimes low How rude!


The Empire Strikes Back

Resistance from the establishment


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Cargo-cult adoption



Problems & Challenges


This is why

you fail

● Stormtroopers do not make good Scrum Masters

● Release planning is frequently broken

● Luke blew up the Death Star by trusting his instincts

● Organisations do not believe in the Values of the manifesto – they just use the words…

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Agile teams spinning fast but undermined by:

Poor strategic context

Poor architectural context

Lack of real customer involvement


14:15 Walking the Line – “Customer Activities” or Waterfall – Paul Dawson



Mis-aligned governance


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Production based metaphors in organisations

leading to traditional planning practices


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Conway’s Law + Homomorphic Force

Reinforce traditional roles, values and business myths




How does this stuff work at scale?

Size, complexity, distribution, innovation, systems of systems etc.


Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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The Challenge – how do we return?We need a cohesive approach to process and improvement combining:

• Lean Portfolio Management & Project Management

• Agile & Iterative philosophies and practices

• Organizational Structuring and Leadership

• Teaming and Social Practices

• Flexible Continuous Integration Streams

“Complex!”

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Return of the Jedi● What really is Mastery?

● In Software Development?● In Software Process Improvement?

● The agile manifesto was important, the rules weren’t

● Shuhari

● Condense onto a holistic model● Simplify the complex


16:30 Follow the manifesto, tailor everything else – Anna Khorenzhaia


Return of the Jedi


“Experience, Empiricism, Excellence”

Valuing individuals and interactions, encouraging collaboration, reducing layers of communication over processes, tools and hierarchy

Valuing working software in the form of quality releases from short development cycles over comprehensive documentation, business analysis, enterprise architecture documentation

Valuing customer, business, developer and operations collaboration over contract negotiation

Valuing good governance, transparency and honesty in progress, plans, costs and impediments over regular reporting

Valuing responding to change over following a plan at all levels of the business

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What is it?The Business of Software Development

www.holistic-software.com Book: Coming Soon


The V Model.


Emphasise Iteration and Integration.


The H Model


Recursive Feedback Cycles

11:00 Feedback loops in Agile software development – Alexander Matukhin


Big Picture.


Hybrid Dynamic Model






Using HSD to answer questionsIs your time to market quick enough for your business to respond?

Is your Programme and Project Management smoothly joined up with your agile teams?

Does everyone understand how their work contributes to business value?

Do you know what end-to-end scenarios will be delivered in the next programme release?

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Inclusion, Congruency and Resonance.


A Government Case Study.


Adoption • HSD is the glue that joins up your existing practices

• Use HSD to plug gaps in existing process• Adopt parts of HSD of as required• You don’t need to do it all at once• Indicative, not prescriptive!

• Full HSD adoption?• Top down, middle out and bottom up • Integrated change

• Where would we recommend you start?• Release Planning and Integration Scenarios


What’s Next• HSD is free to use and access

• There is no subscription or fee to access additional content

• Have a look: www.holistic-software.com

• Follow @mikemacd, @HolisticSW, @HandyHSD

• Please blog/tweet about HSD

• Tell us what you think

• Come and get a card

• Just start using it

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