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Create enterprise complex solutions in Agile manners
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AgileConstellation is as an open-agorà created to collect the experiences in the declination of Agile in different contexts, where the products belong to multiple disciplines and in which the role of the project (as a mainstream of activities of which the product is one of the outputs) is still fundamental.
The goal is therefore not to apply a framework, or a methodology, within the software department of a company that deals with other things, but rather to apply an Agile approach to the organization and implementation of projects and products that characterize the company's business, often characterized by a set of very different engineering areas and domains.
The AgileConstellation mindset is summarized in the Funnel that describes its Philosophy, Principles and Practices, as well as highlights the various domains in which it is applied today.
Philosophy
The AgileConstellation philosophy is the same as the renaissance workshop one, the cell where everything needed was made to realize a new handiwork: starting from the design to the marketing, going through the learning and the production.
Team’s members are pushed to behave like renaissance craftsmen, with ability they use various materials, techniques and tools to satisfy the handiwork’s customer.
AgileConstellation brings the customer’s need to the center, harmonizing competencies, approaches and various technologies by defining a main-set of market economically-sustainable solutions.
Principles
It’s not about the individual part: it’s about jobs to be done!
It’s not the completion of components and then the related, rather the focus is on a smart solution to solve a need in an effective and efficient way.
Think less and do it!
Reduce to the bare minimum the time dedicated to the analysis phase, in favor of a quick startup of development’s activities related to the solution.
Simple is better!
Simpler is the solution, more chance we have to evolve it according to stakeholders needs.
If you can’t remember it, you can’t improve it!
Using visual management system to monitoring the state of the solution development.
Practices
Fast Prototyping
The goal of the Fast Prototyping is to validate the overall sustainability of the solution.
The sustainability is characterized by 5 bubble-aspects that focuses on the main ones, related to the enterprise solutions:
- People: focused on the interaction between the involved people, their way of working and the related tools
- Artifacts: focused on the rapid validation of the artifacts affecting the product
- Tools: focused on the identification and management of tools, digital and environmental, necessary for achieving the objectives
- Legal: focused on the analysis of the law and regulations, national and international, which the solution must consider;
- Delivery: focused on the analysis of the delivery related to the various elements that compose the solution, as well the whole solution itself.
Furthermore, depending on the specific domain, more bubbles can be added to specify specific elements to be assessed for verify the sustainability.
All this bubble-aspects explicitly contribute to the evaluation of the solution cost/benefit.
Make-Measure-Learn
The Make-Measure-Learn (MML) loop aims to fast experiment different hypotheses and assumptions:
- Make: create a prototype to test the Vision assumptions and starting to consolidate the reference team;
- Measure: analyze the prototype according to the Goals and related metrics. Also check whether the organization and the team are confident with the solution creation;
- Learn: adopt the necessary changes depending on the results.
Flashback
The so-called flashback leads the team to match the state of the solution with a fast alignment, in which it is the observer who asks questions and tests what has been achieved.
The flashback may reveal the need to investigate some aspects, which leads to a Review Blitz in which to resolve any doubt.
Continuous Improvement
The goal of the Continuous Improvement is to reduce to the minimum the interventions on the least flexible aspects of the solution. The approach is to act on the reasonably modifiable elements, in order to constantly improve the overall solution.
Continuous Integration
The Continuous Integration pushes the team to integrate continuously (and as soon as possible) every change, in order to identify problems and resolve them in a timely fashion. This helps to reduce the costs associated to the unexpected behaviours.
All the elements described are the result of direct experience and many discussions with experts, coming to extract the essence of complexity that a new initiative brings with it, both from a technical and organizational point of view.
This is a "pretotype" that represent a constant and evolving work depending on the field of application of a new applications. In this sense, the suggestion is to use what suggested like a reference in the context of your own reality according to you own corporate culture.
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