change it? How do we encourage transparency, priori- ties, and accountability? You know the answer: Scrum. Let’s start a few thousand miles west of Washington, D.C., in the Washington state capital, Olympia SMART— Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. In other words, they want to use Scrum. And, in fact, they are. The office of the Chief Information Officer of the State of Washington is how to implement state policy. To do that, they use Scrum. They’ve actually torn down the cubicle walls in their offices and formed into Scrum teams. Michael DeAngelo, the Deputy CIO, says they try

Mary PoppendieckTeam -> Program -> Portfolio Team  Cross functional  Scrum  Release cadence  HIP Program  Built on Scrum, except scaled up  self-organizing, self-managing team-of-agile-teams

of Practice, etc.  Test Driven Infrastructure  Blue – green deployments  Combining DevOps Scrum – planning, standups, boards, and backlogs  Making work visible (it’s still hidden)  Poor measurements Book List  Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum, Craig Larman  Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment

as the dictatorial treatment, but it can help push us in the right direction.”  Agile tie-in: Scrum and the use of time boxes The High Price of Ownership – Why We Overvalue What We Have  Example: