Scaling agile in GDS - Agile Cambridge 2016
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A talk I gave at Agile Cambridge 2016 on how we scale agile development at the Government Digital Service.
Scaling agile in GDS - Agile Cambridge 2016
- 1. Adam Maddison Head of Agile Delivery Government Digital Service @dog_bytes
- 2. Scaling agile at the Government Digital Service
- 4. *GDS
- 5. *GDS
- 6. *GDS
- 7. *GDSGDS
- 8. *GDSGDS
- 10. GDS But it hasnt been like that for long
- 11. GDS GOV.UK was already pretty big
- 12. GDS It grew very quickly
- 13. GDS It was already pretty complex
- 14. GDS There was another very big task ahead of us
- 15. GDS All within another fixed deadline
- 16. How would we motivate our people to deliver?
- 17. GDS Its increasingly clear what motivates people to do good work
- 18. We had a clear purpose
- 19. We knew having autonomy was a good thing
- 20. GDS
- 21. GDS Autonomy without transparency doesnt work as wed set people up to make random decisions. @pawelbrodzinski
- 22. GDS We needed to be clear how we were going to achieve our goals
- 23. GDS We needed to be able to see how we were progressing - at all times
- 24. We knew visualising was essential
- 25. *GDS
- 27. *GDS
- 28. *GDS
- 30. *GDS
- 31. And then we talked to each other
- 32. *GDS
- 33. GDS The conversations were very open, and very honest
- 34. We hit the deadline!
- 35. So: what did we learn?
- 36. GDS Large teams took more effort to manage
- 37. GDS Visionary leadership was vital
- 38. GDS The conversations between the teams were the most important feature
- 39. But...
- 40. GDS Although the best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organising teams
- 41. GDS We ended the year supporting 78 applications
- 42. Conways Law
- 43. GDS Now we can look at the common attributes of those applications
- 44. GDS Were now using a Publishing Platform approach
- 45. GDS On any large programme, do research early to find those common attributes
- 47. GDS So, whats our approach to scaling agile at GDS?
- 48. Do not scale
- 49. The GOV.UK model
- 50. GDS Not everything in GDS has scaled in the same way
- 51. GDS Our Communities of Practice have been vital
- 52. GDS We havent ignored scaling frameworks
- 57. People and interactions over processes and tools