In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Flint Brenton, CEO of Collabnet/VersionOne on how the organisation is integrating post the merger and supporting customers as they adopt value stream thinking.
Key Takeaways
- Reflecting on the way the two businesses have come together since the merger of Collabnet and VersionOne
- The company is focusing on supporting value stream management in their customers development businesses
- You can adopt value stream management without including DevOps, but it’s really hard and doesn’t deliver the expected benefits
- Regardless of size, every enterprise is now a software company
- The importance of educating customers on the cultures that are found in the best run development organisations and the benefits that are possible
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Show Notes
- 00:27 Looking back at the year since the merger
- 01:22 The strengths of the two organisations prior to the merger
- 01:46 A vision for value stream management
- 02:21 The focus areas for the combined organisation
- 02:51 Describing value stream management
- 03:18 Not trying to do everything, using a partner integration approach
- 04:28 Describing how customer feedback is integrated in the products
- 05:32 The two-step process of product-owner to customer feedback loops
- 06:18 Telling a story of two different organisation’s level of DevOps adoption
- 06:58 The challenges of trying to adopt agile approaches without CI/CD
- 07:23 Without CI/CD many of the benefits of using an agile approach are not achievable
- 07:36 You can’t do value stream management without including DevOps
- 08:48 Additions to the State of Agile survey
- 09:25 DevOps is a fast-rising part of agile adoption
- 10:13 Regardless of size, every enterprise is now a software company
- 10:43 It’s not about the tools – it’s about relentlessly finding roadblocks in the development process and removing them
- 11:08 An example of an organisation who identified the roadblocks in their process and found that only 37% of the time was available for software development
- 12:22 The need to educate non-technical people about what the work of development actually is
- 13:05 Lots of the work of development is about communication and collaboration
- 13:22 The importance of educating senior management about what transformation actually entails and what is needed to make it successful
- 14:22 Begin with the end in mind (Steven Covey reference)
- 15:13 The story of merging the Collabnet and VersionOne cultures
- 16:52 Aligning the cultures and values was much easier after people got to know each other
- 17:32 When dealing with customer organisation, first seek to understand then be understood (Steven Covey reference)
- 17:54 Educating customers on the cultures that are found in the best run development organisations and the benefits that are possible
- 18:32 Success for an agile coach is when the client tells you about your ideas as their own
Mentioned:
- Agile 2018
- Collabnet/VersionOne
- Book: Steven Covey – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
