Business areas and IT have to deal with demands from a changing world. From strategy to daily basis activities, companies have to respond considering time horizon, frequency and complexity. There is no chance to avoid continuous improvement adoption and inovation.
Businnes looks for processes that reach high service level and satisfaction. In other hand IT needs to keep it´s productivity and offer a good ROI for investments.
How to increase responsiviness with reliability?
This post aims to present DEVOPS SQUAD MODEL that allows dealing with demands, mostly evolutionary ones, in a more dynamic way that can promote relevant improvements and met the expectations regarding supply chain planning process and applications. It could be an alternative for short application’s life cycle, from inception to support, in a streamlined and collaborative way.
SQUAD MODEL – MAIN GOALS
- Streamline initiative´s life cycle (from inception to go-live);
- Improve delivery capacity utilization without ups and downs;
- Portfolio and project plan visibility, predictability for allocation and IT clients (Business Areas);
- Responsiveness and dynamism to deal with business needs for changing;
- Improve IT professionals and 3rd part consultants’ productivity (keep focus on deliver).
SQUAD MODEL – CHARACTERÍSTICS
- Less complex projects, short time duration, embracing some processes and 1 E2E, engaging small group of people (team) and focus in 1 business area;
- Collaborative scope management (most relevant requirements). Plan and previous agreement before start but not rigid. It avoid “all you can eat“ syndrome;
- Short time duration and major package go-live defined (visibility);
- Short phase and cycles (sprints), less risks to manage in terms of keep higher motivation and engagement;
- Flexible scope implies in variances on budget and costs. Heads up on financial risks perception. Requires more detailed cost allocation taking monthly cycles;
- Continuous Portfolio Management to feed delivery service workstream;
- Backlog allows changes but requires keep it under control and managing trade-offs and prioritization;
- Engagement and allocation according sprint activities but constrained but capacity (Squad Team and Business and IT spot allocation). Requires full control of professional’s allocation and availability (demand and supply balance);
- More flexibility, backlog, trade-off , capacity (people), time management and event (compelling, release windows) management;
- Sourcing and agreement model: Time&Material (T&M).
SQUAD MODEL – BENEFITS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
See following video about SQUAD Model
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