Agile and Lean Six Sigma

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1 © 2012, General Electric Company Agile@GE Agile Adoption in a Six Sigma Culture Sunil Kutty Program Manager GE Energy Software Solutions Group Mumbai

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In this session, Sunil shares the agile adoption experience that a Six Sigma Black Belt and an agile coach took borrowing concepts from Lean/Six Sigma to help promote and sustain the change that adoption to agile brought to the software development team. Are they opposing concepts or complementary?

Transcript of Agile and Lean Six Sigma

1© 2012, General Electric Company

Agile@GE

Agile Adoption in a Six Sigma Culture

Sunil Kutty

Program ManagerGE Energy Software Solutions GroupMumbai

A Measure of Quality

A Process for Continuous Improvement

An Enabler for Culture Change

Lean Six Sigma is…

Six Sigma = Reduce VariationLean = Reduce Waste

Agile and Six Sigma…

VALUE

TIME

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A Black Belt’s tool kit for agile transformation

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Leadership Support

Systems and Structures

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Learning Agile: Training & Coaching

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Leadership Support

Systems and Structures

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Started CI with Baby Steps…

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Several Six Sigma projects with CI Focus: Variation and Time

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Continuous Integration and Beyond

Compile

Unit Testing

Auto Deploy

Validation Testin

g

Analyze

User Stories

ShippableProduct

Continuous Builds

Nightly Build

Unit Testing

Validation Tests

Static Analysis

Auto Deploy

Targeted Notification

Reporting

Developer Productivity: Defect Prevention

Build Acceleration

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8.00

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Done = Releasable

Automate Everything

Minimize Cycle Time

Bring Pain Forward

Improve Continuously

Stop the Line

CD Principles

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Visual Workplace

Information Radiators

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

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Retrospectives

Enabling incremental improvements: Facilitated Retrospectives, Agility assessments & cause maps.

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

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• 改 ('kai') KAI means 'change' or 'the action to correct'. • 善 ('zen') ZEN means 'good'•Kaizen is small incremental changes made for improving productivity and minimizing waste.

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n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Kaizen

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n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Metrics

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Sustaining Change

Agile adoptio

n

CI and beyond

Visual Workplace

Retrospectives

Kaizen

Metrics

Coaching

Leadership Support

Systems and Structures

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Thank you.