Keep Austin Agile 2019

Bob Payne has worked for 20 years in the Agile Industrial complex and as a community we have focused way too much on the build side of the house and not enough on the business side. That is increasingly changing to a model of Strategic Execution and focusing on the value first and then optimizing delivery with Agile.

Many organizations are adopting End 2 End Value Stream Teams (E2E VSTs) and redesigning their organization's structure, funding, and governance to support these value delivery engines. These organizations are still a minority, but the rate of adoption of this model is at a tipping point. This change requires a discussion of what is value and constantly prioritizing value first. To do this, many people are aligning E2E VSTs with product lines or lines of business. To truly go E2E, many of them are embedding business functions with delivery teams. These are functions such as business operations, marketing, HR, legal, planning, funding, and, of course, the folks that define what the right thing to build is. By cutting across all those silos to create delivery teams, we allow things to go from "Idea to Implementation" or "Concept to Cash" very quickly.