It's Agile Jim but not as we know it!

Whether you’re building a Klingon Bird-of-Prey or Robot Vacuum cleaner, Agile software delivery for physical products is hard. When you are bringing together the development of an embedded software platform, robotics and machine learning algorithms, mobile apps and backend cloud services, all for a pre-defined launch date, can you really do it without a Gantt chart in sight? Well, we have certainly been giving it our best shot! This is the story of our journey so far in transforming how Dyson is developing products with an ever-increasing reliance on software.

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1. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 IT’S AGILE JIM BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
2. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 1,000,000+ Connected products
3. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 What’s coming up?
4. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 1 -Lean software In a waterfall world v Business Interactions v Milestones v Commitment v Multi Discipline v Incremental v Alignment
5. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Business Interactions
6. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Interfacing with Milestones
7. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 What do you commit to early?
8. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Combining disciplines
9. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Incremental delivery
10. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 How & when to align?
11. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 2 - How Do We Scale? And keep what is working v To Easy? v Growing Pains v Principles v Team Design v Encourage change v Other Challenges
12. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Growing pains
13. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Principles v Continuous Delivery v Teams own Quality v Automate Testing v Early & Iterate v Knowing not enough
14. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Team design
15. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Team Responsibilities
16. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 How best to split? PRODUCT FEATURES DISCIPLINE
17. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 strained in at least 1 dimension v PRODUCT - User consistency - Technical approach v FEATURES - Business alignment - Technical Approach v DISCIPLINE - Business alignment - Technical Approach
18. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Logical Levels of Change Identity Values Role Beliefs Capability Behavior Environment
19. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Collaboration across time zones
20. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Aligning more than software
21. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Improvements were limited
22. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Work was not visible
23. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 3 - Global Optimizations Without breaking too much v What we looked at v Why we looked at it v What we did v Did it help
24. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Enter SAFe
25. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 SAFe – The good bits
26. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 SAFe – The not so good bits
27. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 The simplest thing?
28. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 The simplest thing? vAll get together regularly vPlan longer term at lower resolution vName Processes vName roles
29. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Common framework
30. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Body Shop
31. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Gives teams more freedom
32. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Common Approach
33. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 A bit like waterfall…
34. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Allows for structural changes
35. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Urgent Vs Important
36. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 The right words but…
37. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Regular roadmap discussions
38. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Not one size fits all
39. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Regular integration cadence
40. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 The Project Interface
41. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 What our teams think… “Continuity between sprints, a renewed sense of purpose and less thrashing” “Can still ”lead to Faux waterfall planning without strong Agile voices” “A solid foundation but does not go far enough in pushing organizational change” “given teams the opportunity to think about and own their future” “Agile is a mindset change, SAFe has provided us a tool to help facilitate this” “still continue to work in a fully agile way, just with more vision of the immediate future” “Not yet handling unplanned operational work well” “Way too many terms and concepts, but a well oiled process” “Improved engagement and fostered a stronger sense of ownership”
42. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 What have we learnt? v Team Design v Levels of Change v Constraints v Common Language v Change context v Force yourself
43. New Frontiers Executive Summary January 2017 Questions…