Scaling Up Agile Drupal

How do you scale Agile beyond your local Drupal teams? How do you scale Agile beyond individual Drupal projects? How do you gain competitive advantage with Agile Drupal development at scale? Asking these questions pushes us in the Drupal community to make better efforts together to capture the full potential of the Agile approach. This session will address development agencies evaluating Agile practices at scale in Drupal development from accessible success stories.

We will cover scaling Agile practices and as a result improving productivity, smart simplicity and gaining competitive advantage in Drupal development. We will touch base on chief impediments in current operating models and organizational structures that do not help. We will rethink together the foundational processes, structures, and relationships, the pros and cons, and changes required to amass the full potential of Agile Drupal at scale.

Key Takeaways

When we do Agile right and at scale, the results can be stunning. Simplicity, productivity, innovation, employee engagement and time to market and value delivered will improve by a factor of three. We will learn how empowering and nurturing large-scale self-organizing teams that support Agile Drupal development helps bring those results. After engaging in this session, you’ll walk away with dependable answers to questions like:

• What roles and responsibilities do individuals and Drupal Community at large can fulfill in the creation of self-organizing Drupal teams?
• Why and how top management can facilitate the transformation towards ensuring digital readiness and creating truly agile organizations?
• Why do we need product owners and scrum masters? To fly, you need pilots.
• Whats steps need to be taken to scale up Agile when you are theoretically willing to accept it, but practically challenged to do so?
• What metrics should be in place in Agile at scale to measure the right things?
• Are we complicating things or simplifying things when scaling Agile?

The Presenter

Sreeni Vas is a Solutions Specialist, a product-centric member, on Axelerant’s team. He leads digital transformations by connecting people and their needs to the right technologies. After learning how to code way back in 2000, he zoomed out to focus on broader client perspectives so he can help frame successful web platform solutions.

Recently, he spoke at DrupalCon Asia 2016, conducting a BOF session on Value Driven Development through Continuous Discovery for Product Owners and Business Analysts. After work, you can find him taking a stroll with his wife Renu in the cool of the evening. Most likely they’re off birdwatching, one of their favorite things to do at the end of the day.