Software Executive Summit. Executive Briefing Day

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1 2015 Software Executive Summit Executive Briefing Day

2 Executive Briefing Day The 2015 Software Executive Summit offers a new opportunity to maximize your leadership gains at this year s Summit. Add an Executive Briefing Day and benefit from the insights Construx consultants have gained from working with leading companies around the world. These Executive Briefings address the leading edge issues that keep software executives awake at night. Whether you re interested in Agile at Scale, Agile Foundations, or Optimizing Your Organization, this program has the valuable takeaways you need.

3 Program at a Glance Agile at Scale Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks Jenny Stuart, Vice President Consulting, Construx Overcoming Common Scaling Dysfunctions Jenny Stuart, Vice President Consulting, Construx Supporting Agile Product Development through Visioning and Road Mapping Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx Introduction to Lean Flow Agile with Scaled Teams (L FAST TM ) Bob Webber, Senior Fellow, Construx Agile Foundations Starting a New Scrum Team John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx The Seven Deadly Sins of Agile John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx Estimation Types in Agile Earl Beede, Senior Fellow, Construx Getting to Done (Essential Engineering Practices) Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx Optimizing the Organization Choose Your Leadership Style Bob Webber, Senior Fellow, Construx Effect of DevOps on Development Organizations Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx Crossing the Chasm from Successful Project Teams to Successful Project Organizations John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx Portfolio Management via Product Visions Earl Beede, Senior Fellow, Construx

4 Schedule Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Agile at Scale Agile Foundations Optimizing the Organization 8:00 Check in, continental breakfast 9:00 Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks Starting a New Scrum Team Choose Your Leadership Style 10:15 Break 10:45 Overcoming Common Scaling Dysfunctions The Seven Deadly Sins of Agile Effect of DevOps on Development Organizations 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Supporting Agile Product Development through Visioning And Road Mapping Estimation Types in Agile Crossing the Chasm from Successful Project Teams to Successful Project Organizations 2:15 Break 2:45 Introduction to Lean Flow Agile with Scaled Teams (L FAST ) Getting to Done (Essential Engineering Practices) Portfolio Management via Product Visions 4:00 End of Program

5 Session Descriptions Agile at Scale Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks Jenny Stuart, Vice President Consulting, Construx Hearing all about different scaling frameworks and wondering which one is for you? We will provide an overview of SAFe, DAD, and LeSS,including the strengths and gaps of each. We ll cover the techniques and approaches in each framework and where they work best. This talk will provide you with a basis to determine whether one of these popular scaling frameworks is a good fit for your needs. Overcoming Common Scaling Dysfunctions Jenny Stuart, Vice President Consulting, Construx Scrum at the single team level is simple compared to using it for product development efforts of hundreds or thousands of staff. In Construx s consulting work, we see the good, the bad, and the ugly of scaling Scrum. This talk discusses strategies and approaches that will help you avoid common scaling dysfunctions. Successful companies scale Scrum in ways that ensure they deliver high quality working software frequently. We ll discuss strategies and approaches that will help you be successful. Supporting Agile Product Development through Visioning And Road Mapping Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx Agile development approaches, although product centric, are mostly silent on how to envision a product and define its roadmap. Over the years, Agile teams have been adopting traditional techniques such as Product Box and Elevator Pitch, to capture the overarching goal of the product under development. Emerging techniques such as Impact Mapping and User Story Mapping provide collaborative and visual ways to work out the why that lead to the product vision and the what that leads to the product roadmap. In this session we present how to exploit the synergy between these traditional and emerging techniques to produce product visions and roadmaps that lead to successful products. Introduction to Lean Flow Agile with Scaled Teams (L FAST TM ) Bob Webber, Senior Fellow, Construx Scaling Agile beyond the individual team remains a challenge for software leaders. Early scaling methodologies such as SAFe impose high process complexity, and they reduce agility. Based on Construx s experience supporting large project implementations in both Agile and Waterfall organizations, plus years of listening to real world company needs, Construx has developed the L FAST approach as a practical solution to scaling projects in an Agile framework. L FASTis a true Agile scaling approach that allows organizations to use Scrum or Kanban at the team level, scales to support medium projects as well as large projects, and works within current organizational structures including functional organizations and matrix organizations. L FAST supports aligning the organization to minimize Cost of Delay and Work in Process to achieve the greatest business value in minimum time.

6 Session Descriptions Agile Foundations Starting a New Scrum Team John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx Starting a new Scrum team can be a scary prospect, especially if you ve never done it before. Questions abound: who should be on the team, how big is the team, who should be the Scrum Master, how do we maintain a Product Backlog, etc. This discussion will provide you with a new team startup checklist as well as cover common mistakes and how to avoid them. The Seven Deadly Sins of Agile John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx Are you encountering issues with your Agile adoption? Let s examine the seven deadly sins of Agile: how to identify them, the root cause, and how to fix them. Whether you are trying out a new Scrum pilot team or leading an organization wide Agile transformation, this topic will enable you to adapt and improve. Estimation Types in Agile Earl Beede, Senior Fellow, Construx Some in the Agile community suggest that Agile puts an end to estimation, yet we need estimates to plan. In this session, we will see that estimation plays several different roles on Agile projects and identify which estimation practices work well at different stages of the Agile project. Topics include defining estimation, the role of estimation at the project level, the role of estimation at the sprint level, estimation approaches, and reasons for comparing estimation to actuals. Getting to Done (Essential Engineering Practices) Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx Despite the wide adoption of Agile and Lean methods such as Scrum and Kanban, organizations have failed to realize the benefits of Agile software development because of poor code quality. The minimally prescriptive nature of Agile methods have not prevented organizations from slipping into the infamous Big Ball of Mud architecture, which makes it difficult to add business value frequently and call the product Done." In this tutorial we present proven essential engineering practices that lead to flexible and maintainable code and keep agility alive.

7 Session Descriptions Optimizing the Organization Choose Your Leadership Style Bob Webber, Senior Fellow, Construx Are you the hard driving leader who ensures accountability throughout your organization? Or, are you the leader who supports software teams in attaining goals they didn't believe they could reach? This briefing explains the dynamics of software team motivation in a model that explains how either strong negative or strong positive reinforcement can get results along with the plusses and minuses of each kind of reinforcement. This metrics based reinforcement system creates a high performance culture where software teams can regularly meet higher goals. Effect of DevOps on Development Organizations Melvin Perez, Senior Fellow, Construx DevOps aligns product development and IT operations to reduce the lead time for changes and deploy more frequently. How do you accomplish this without sacrificing operations stability? The high tempo DevOps environment imposes cultural and technical challenges on development organizations that are accustomed to just introducing changes into products without considering the effects on IT operations. This tutorial explores how DevOps affects the culture and development practices of development organizations. Crossing the Chasm from Successful Project Teams to Successful Project Organizations John Clifford, Senior Fellow, Construx If there s one constant across the software industry since its inception, it s simply this: the larger the project the more likely it is to fail. We know the fundamental problem lies with the fact that, as a project grows, the number of interdependencies, and the need for effective communications around those interdependencies, increases at a geometric rate. Many organizations have run successful pilot projects using various Lean and Agile techniques, but can t replicate success on larger projects because they fail to understand that while values endure and principles scale, practices have to be adapted to the context at hand. This presentation provides an overview of the common values and principles of successful project organizations, including how we can translate them into effective practices, at any scale, that will lead us to organizational success: an organization that delivers on time, on budget, with the desired scope... and that continually improves in each of these areas. Portfolio Management via Product Visions Earl Beede, Senior Fellow, Construx Approving a portfolio of projects that supports corporate objectives is a major challenge. This session demonstrates how to use requirements based product visions to create measurable and traceable ways to prioritize projects. By focusing on the value delivered rather than the technology, clear tradeoffs can be uncovered and skills matched to corporate needs. Topics covered include vision approaches, fundamentals of requirements, lead compete follow product visions, product roadmaps, technology s response to the product vision, and assigning value.

8 Presenters Earl Beede, CSDP is a Senior Fellow at Construx Software, where he designs and leads seminars and provides consulting services on early project lifecycle practices, estimation, requirements, quality assurance, contract management, and software methodologies. With more than 20 years experience as a quality assurance representative, systems analyst, process architect, and manager, Earl has designed and written software development processes for companies across a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining Construx, he held quality assurance and systems analyst positions at organizations that include the Department of Defense, Boeing Computer Services and Verizon Wireless. Earl has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and a past coordinator of the Seattle Area SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network). John Clifford is a Senior Fellow and Agile Practices Lead at Construx Software where he focuses on software development, project management, portfolio management, product management, and organizational management practices. John has three decades experience across the software development and organizational management spectrum, working for small startups and the world's largest software company. He has been an individual contributor, development manager, group project manager, development director, and CEO. John has led numerous successful Scrum and Lean Kanban adoptions, and his clients include several Fortune 500 companies with locations across the US, Europe, and Asia. He holds Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and Certified Scrum Professional certifications for the Scrum Alliance. He is a charter Kanban Coaching Professional, at the invitation of the Lean Kanban University. He presents at Lean, Agile, and Scrum conferences, and has been recognized for his knowledge and ability in the application of Agile and Lean principles to all facets of software project planning, management and execution.

9 Presenters Melvin Perez Cedano, MSIT SE, CSDP, is a Senior Fellow at Construx Software where he focuses on software design, software construction, software process, and configuration management. Prior to joining Construx, Melvin completed his Ph.D. coursework at Rochester Institute of Technology as well as an earlier Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. Melvin was cofounder of CAM Informática, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner software development company and one of the largest software providers in the Dominican Republic. Melvin ran the technical division at CAM Informática for more than 10 years. Melvin has a history of transforming dysfunctional and immature organizations into performance and quality oriented environments. He is experienced in architecting and leading the development of commercial and custom software applications. He understands the demands of working under pressure while retaining attention to detail and focusing on results. Melvin is expert in Agile practices including code cleaning, refactoring, and unit testing. He is bilingual in English and Spanish. He has lectured extensively throughout the Americas and is a former IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for Latin America. Jenny Stuart, PSM, SPC, CSDP, is the Vice President of Consulting at Construx Software, where she gives clients the benefit of her 20 years experience in software testing, process improvement, quality assurance, and Agile techniques. Her expertise in incorporating best practices and Agile software development practices has helped a wide variety of companies make dramatic improvements in their software development and quality assurance processes. Jenny is an expert in quality practices and earned the highest score in the United States on QAI s Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) exam and holds a CSDP certification. She has worked with Construx clients since 2004 to evaluate and adopt Agile development approaches, including Scrum. Jenny is the author of numerous white papers describing software best practices and detailing how Construx has helped its clients to improve their development processes and practices. She is also a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).

10 Presenters Bob Webber is a Senior Fellow at Construx with over 30 years of software experience delivering innovative products in telecommunications, entertainment and life sciences. Bob s roles have ranged from software developer to executive R&D positions at GTE and AT&T, followed by engineering and product management leadership at three successful start up companies. As CEO, Bob led TranSenda International to successful acquisition by BioClinica (BIOC), where he became Vice President of Product Management. His industry experience also includes four years on Steve McConnell s Executive Committee for Software Engineering. Bob has an Electrical Engineering degree (honors) from the University of British Columbia. He holds five patents, and received an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award in 1999.

11 Registration Please register for this one of a kind event Online at By at summit@construx.com By phone at +1(866) The Executive Briefings registration fee is $795 for Summit attendees, $995 for non attendees. Location Grand Hyatt Hotel 721 Pine Street Seattle, WA (206)

12 About Construx Construx Software is the market leader in practical, research based training and consulting that supports software professionals. Construx was founded in 1996 by Steve McConnell, respected author and thought leader on software development best practices. Steve s books Code Complete, Software Estimation, and other titles are some of the most accessible books on software development with more than a million copies in print in 20 languages. Steve s passion for advancing the art and science of software engineering is shared by Construx s team of seasoned consultants. Their depth of knowledge and expertise has helped hundreds of companies solve their software challenges by identifying and adopting practices that have been proven to produce high quality software faster and with greater predictability. For more information about Construx s support for software development best practices, us at consulting@construx.com or call us at +1(866) Construx 2015, Construx Software Builders, Inc. All rights reserved. Construx Software Builders, Inc NE 8th Street, Suite 1350 Bellevue, WA U.S.A.