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About me n  John Heintz

•  Developer since 1995 •  Agilist since 1999 •  Founded Gist Labs in 2008

n  Developer, Mentor, Consultant, Writer, Speaker

n  Intuitive, Abstract, Precise

n  I take my work seriously, not myself

The things I believe in: Agile/Lean/Kanban, REST, Mentoring, Craftsmanship, Systems, Emergence, InnovationGames, and Teams

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Work Visualization Why this topic??

A little theory…

… and a little practice for each of:

n  Personal Work

n  Team Work

n  Cross-Organization Work

n  Collaborative Roadmapping

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Why visualize our work?

n Purpose requires focus,

on the right things

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Why visualize our work?

n See the whole,

or we’re doomed to sub-optimize

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Personal: Visualize Your Work!

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Team Work, Kanban

Ready InProg

Dev/Test

Ready InProg

UX

DoneReady

XY

Z1Z2Z3

Z4

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Kanban for Dev/Test

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Kanban for DevOps

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DevOps Pipelines

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Jenkins Build Pipeline Plugin

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Many Teams in Sequence: Value Stream Maps

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Cross-Organization Work, Programs

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Cross-Organization Work, Programs

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Cross-Organization Work, Programs

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Mapping Programs to Teams

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Mapping Program to Teams, more Collaboration

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n  Three month quarterly planning

n  6 sprints, 2 weeks long

n  Programs and dependencies

Planning with 17 Teams

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Collaborative Roadmapping

Time Horizon (quarters to years)

Multi-Level Roadmapping

Market

Map

Feature/Benefit

Map

Architecture

Events/Rhythms

...

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Roadmapping Patterns

n  Bring a cross-section of org together to plan

n  Marketing/sales, Product, Arch, Dev, Infrastructure, …

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Roadmapping in Practice…

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Terrible Road Map, but the Realizations…

“I don’t think we can do everything”, participant

“We’ve unearthed two or three strategic disconnects”, participant

“I didn’t think we were over-committed, but we are”, CEO

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Distributed Roadmapping?

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Years

Months

Weekly

Daily

Hours

Minutes

Vision

Roadmap

Release Plan

Sprint Plan

Standup Meeting

TDD

Continuous Integration

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Many Levels of Work Visualization John Heintz john@gistlabs.com @jheintz Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium Owner of Gist Labs, Austin, TX, USA Lean India Summit 2013, Bangalore, India