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Agile Infrastructure Transformation and TBM

Leading Agile

Questions of how does Agile apply to infrastructure and what does TBM have to do with Agile were in my mind. Agile in Infrastructure. I spent quite a bit of time with part of a large infrastructure and ops group (over 2000 people and $1B of spend) in re-educating them in how the fundamentals of Agile applied to them as well.

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New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

Project Accelerator News

When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Remember, there’s huge value to be gained from a fresh pair of eyes looking at existing operational performance and infrastructure.

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Top 5 scaling Agile Practice that Improves Business

Agilemania

DevOps Handbook calls it CALMS (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing) and SAFe® calls it CALMR (Culture, Automation, pLean Flow, Measurement, Recovery). The teams working in this environment imbibe the Principles of Lean and Agile in their day-to-day work. Infrastructure as Code / Service. Automation. Version Control.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Promote a Balanced Roadmap : Collaborate with product management to design a roadmap that includes features to pay down technical debt or improve infrastructure alongside new features. Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

Final Transition and Decommissioning Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, all remaining applications will be fully migrated to the cloud, and on-premises infrastructure will be decommissioned." Final Transition and Decommissioning - KR12: Fully migrate all remaining applications to the cloud and decommission on-premises infrastructure.

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How to Take Advantage of Adaptive Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Lean Project Management Lean project management is derived from lean manufacturing principles and focuses on maximizing value by eliminating waste. Lean encourages continuous improvement through the iterative evaluation of practices and outcomes, promoting efficiency and effectiveness in project execution.

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The Truth About Sprint Zero (and why Ken hates it)

Scrum.org

The infrastructure we need. For creating outline designs, I'll often advise the use of the Lean Canvas and possibly the Value Proposition canvas as great starting points. For the first step, I often address these items for a software product. This happens before team formation: The programming language we'll use. The product vision.

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