Agile Processes Beyond Scrum or Kanban

Dr. Sasha Göbbels

Overview

  • About me
  • Team Setup
  • The cadence
  • What happens during reset?

About me

  • Senior Engineering Management Squirrel
  • PhD in Theoretical Chemistry
  • AuDHD, hyperfocus topics/special interests include:
    • Diversity & Inclusion
    • Fashion Theory & Fashion
    • Neuroscience & Empathy
  • Extroverted introvert
  • Trans femme

Team Setup

  • Engineering department: 43 people
  • 4 teams (soon to be 5)
  • Separate DevOps team
  • Using an agile/evolutionary process to evolve the development process
  • Teams are rather free to define their processes within the cadence

Most teams will have a standard structure

  • 4 to 8 engineers
  • Engineering Manager
  • Product Manager
  • UX Specialist
  • Anaytics Specialist

Cross-Team Structures

  • Product Managers Team
  • Engineering Managers Team
  • UX Team
  • Analytics Team

The cadence

Resets

In all resets

  • Product Demos
  • Developer Demos
  • Team Retrospectives
  • Cycle Planning
  • Handing over the Untriaged Board
  • Plus one of the two following sets of tasks

Additionally in short resets

  • Documentation Day

Additionally in long resets

  • Hackathon
  • Initiative Level Retros
  • 2 Grease and Polish Days

Thank you!

Questions or Additions?

References