Governing Agile Delivery • Dan North • GOTO 2018

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2018. #gotocon #gotocph http://gotocph.com Dan North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal Consultant @daniel-terhorst-north ABSTRACT Agile development starts with small teams tackling small problems. After some initial successes the organisation gets more ambitious, and tries to get more teams tackling bigger problems. At some point these endeavours run headlong into finance and governance structures from a different era, designed with huge projects in mind, and it usually doesn’t end well. In this talk Dan explains where our existing governance and [...] TIMECODES 0:00 Introduction 1:43 What is governance? 3:04 How does delivery usually work? 8:36 Multi-year commitments are risky! 14:19 Governance models are designed top-down 15:12 Agile methods are bottom-up 16:58 Agile Adoption Patterns - Richard Durnall 20:07 Agile doesn't have an opinion about large programmes 24:41 Return on investment is a blunt instrument 27:34 Risk profile of traditional delivery 29:22 Risk profile of agile delivery 33:35 We need to rethink our underlying assumptions 36:57 Lead time is the only game in town 46:30 Wrapping up Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2018/sessions/578 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • https://amzn.to/2XjbWor Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • https://amzn.to/3tpAqb5 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • https://amzn.to/2X4GQAD https://twitter.com/gotocph https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- http://gotocon.com #agile #teams #agiledevelopment Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO Conference near you! Get your ticket at http://gotocon.com SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1