Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:
CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner
Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it
One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is coaches are staying away from technology – we have to leverage technology
SSLM (Software Service Lifeycle Management) – Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives are fragmented, they need to interact and have dependencies on each other
5 big trends – Agile beyond development, DevOps is taking centre stage, every company is a software company, digital transformation and the talent crunch
Agile Hardware – how do you build hardware in a more iterative way, how do we think about hardware and software being built together, how do we think about different about hardware design to support the software process (white paper)
The emergence of mobile is driving Agile adoption
Tools and process working together will solve problems
Dependencies are the number one thing that kills agility
Scaling agility across a large organisation is a 5 – 10 year journey
Scrum is often disconnected from the portfolio planning layer, the scaling methods are making the program level agile and predictable
If you want business agility you have to hinge the technology into the business
Sometimes it takes a few attempts for agile transformations, like tipping over a Coke machine (and unlike tipping a cow), you need to lead with results and then work on cultural change to be successful
If the leader of an Agile transformation left the organisation, would they go back to the old way or is Agile part of their DNA – if they would go back they have not been transformed
The scaling Agile frameworks are relatively new and evolving with major changes, without these though there is a lot of chaos and you need them to do Agile at Scale in a large company
The companies that win are the ones where the technology and the business are in sync, you need some process to do that
If we do more experimentation with the scaling methods and some of the lesser frameworks get traction, the community will be better for it
SAFe is the leader in the scaling space, but LeSS is very popular in Europe
Startups are all about business agility, because long feedback cycles are deadly, we need to be able to make decisions and react quickly
Amazon is a good technology company that through business agility threatens everyone
The technology curve is only going to accelerate; physical, digital and biological is going to come together and the application is going to disrupt many businesses very quickly
We still need more data to improve the software process using machine learning to do simulations to get better quality, predictability and value
Agile Craft brings together the product strategy, the team ALM tooling and the business strategy together from the top down, and is multi-modal (it works with all levels of Agile maturity) to nudge teams across to Agile practices faste. The tool has automated coaching built in (no, they have not built a robot coach, yet…!)
Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:
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