Governing Agile Delivery

This presentation examines the tensions between traditional governance and finance structures and Agile delivery as organizations scale to larger programs. It considers delivery risk, return on investment, and lead time as reasons to rethink governance assumptions.

Syllabus

Intro
What is governance?
How does delivery usually work?
Multi-year commitments are risky!
Governance models are designed top-down
Agile methods are bottom-up
Agile Adoption Patterns - Richard Durnall
Agile doesn't have an opinion about large programmes
Return on investment is a blunt instrument
Risk profile of traditional delivery
Risk profile of agile delivery
We need to rethink our underlying assumptions
Lead time is the only game in town
Wrapping up