AgileCamp San Francisco 2019

Can you get the agile benefits while outsourcing? What types of outsourcing make sense in an agile world?
The use of contractors and outsourcing of IT development was a major push for many years as businesses focused on their core capabilities. Industries like government couldn't compete with the marketplace for IT skills and so turned to contractors to fill the needs in many organizations. Now, these same organizations feel they need to bring the modern agile ways of working to their organizations. So how do they actually get the benefits of modern agile ways of working and delivering products while continuing to use contractors for most of the work?
This workshop will focus on 3 areas of achieving most of the benefits of modern agile work while continuing to use contracted work. First, how to decide what to outsource. The decision of which pieces or work to use contractors for is the most important. Second, how to actually hire contractors. The procurement process can be evolved to be more agile and to encourage finding contractors that will drive toward the desired collaboration. Finally, how to manage and work with contractors. The day to day grind of working where real delivery will be accomplished.

Agile transformation first responders, the street view of two start ups and a global financial Enterprise.
In one years span, calls came in from three different sized corporations with the same theme...
Help! Our Agile transformation is stuck in a vortex of missed deliveries and pissed business execs, frustrated teams. The approaches we took would surprise you as it did to us.

Come away with an understanding:
1. Strategies to evaluate Agile Transformation
2. What change would resonate with every level (Leadership to delivery team)
3. How to make it real for the entire organization
4. What to measure that is meaningful to the Organization

Agile is best form of software development, since everything else we have tried. But how do we know? What should we be watching to ensure that we are delivering the awesome agility outcomes that Agile promises?
Measuring Agile is not simply about watching velocity and sprint commitments. In an increasingly customer obsessed and data driven world, teams and organizations must have a much more holistic view of the metrics needed for successful outcomes.

If you are picturing a sea of metrics that need to be turned green, then you have the wrong picture. What is needed a surgical focus on the metrics that matter by the teams that deliver your customer value.
This session will introduce the Intuit customer obsessed, outcome focused approach to Agile metrics along with techniques for implementation.

Over 50% of all Agile transformations fail. In this workshop, attendees will learn common impediments to agility and how implementing Agile develops new capabilities across the organization. 
What you will gain from this session;

• the impacts of three key impediments slowing or preventing significant gains
• an Understanding of how an organization develops new abilities by implementing agile practices and how those abilities result in better agility and impact an organization
• the ability to assess their current state of agility and where to focus near term