Innovation Enabled, Value Driven Architecture Legacy Evolution
Despite almost 25 years of “Agile/XP” most large organizations are still applying the same techniques! In my experience, large single-tech approaches take way too long and have too much risk; and require too many people hence they may be “agile in the small”l, but not have the impact that business seeks/needs in the large.
Executives often sign onto Agile to obtain Agility, but the Agile fanboys never bothered to mention that productivity, nor agility is actually not included in the Agile contract per se. The Agile promise is Predictability and Quality which it can deliver. In contrast to common code-centric approaches for large-scale transformation, we discuss our experiences applying a value-based approach where Agility is substantially due to the application of a specific innovation at a narrowly focused point of high leverage.
In order to make this talk very tangible the majority of the talk discusses several concrete mini-case studies which illustrate what one might call "innovation patterns" applied in practice.
