Accelerate your
SDLC
Introducing The BEST™
Framework
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO
Six Feet Up
IT Leaders Indianapolis 2023
Source Slides/Presentation
Journey
- 6 Globally Distributed Teams
- Some Poorly Performing
- Goal to Improve Delivery Velocity
- Assumptions:
- Poor Test Coverage?
- Technical Debt?
The
Discovery
- Interviewed 6 Teams
- Used a sampling of people
- About 6 hours per team in just interviews
- Uncovered many more issues
One Team, Many
Issues
Prioritizing
Investments
Tale of Two
Teams
- Leverage Cross-Team Pollination
Where to start?
- Rely on surveys, not interviews
- Aggregate results at the team level
- Identify areas of synergy
DIY Assessments
- Identify your best SDLC practices
- Order them according to priority
- Develop questions with only 3 options (for ease of scoring)
- Have everyone take the survey
- Identify your internal domains of expertise and leverage them
- Repeat every 6 months and monitor progress
Download our 19 BEST™ Practice Areas
Data-Driven
Insights
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