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Scrum BUT Research Adapting Agile principles in a research environment

Scrum BUT Research Adapting Agile principles in a research environment. Gary Morgan Chief Science and Technology Office March 16, 2009. PNNL-SA-64966. Battelle at a glance. A leader in technology development and lab management. $4 billion total revenue 20,400 staff (includes labs)

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Scrum BUT Research Adapting Agile principles in a research environment

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  1. ScrumBUTResearchAdapting Agile principles in a research environment Gary Morgan Chief Science and Technology Office March 16, 2009 PNNL-SA-64966

  2. Battelle at a glance A leader in technology development and lab management • $4 billion total revenue • 20,400 staff (includes labs) • 30+ scientific user facilities

  3. PNNL: a national treasure in the Northwest We deliver solutions to America's most intractable problems in energy, national security and the environment. Through the power of our interdisciplinary teams, we advance science and technology to make the world a better place. • Proudly operated by Battelle since 1965 • More than 4,200 staff • Unique capabilities • Mission-driven collaborations with government, industry and universities Washington, D.C.

  4. Hanford Nuclear Reservation The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory(PNNL) PNNL Campus

  5. PNNL is DOE-SC’s most diversified lab • $1.1 billion in 2008 sales $30M in laboratory directed research and development (LDRD)

  6. LDRD Initiatives Aerosol ClimateBiomolecular Systems Carbon ManagementCarbon SequestrationCatalysisData Intensive ComputingElectricity Infrastructure OperationsEnergy ConversionsEnvironmental BiomarkersExplosives DetectionExtreme Scale ComputingInformation and Infrastructure IntegrityMicrobial CommunitiesNext Generation Proteomics Measurement Sustainable Nuclear PowerTechnosocial Predictive AnalyticsTransformational Materials

  7. Using the principles of Scrum to accelerate “Science to Solutions” • Increase research initiative performance • Attract earlier programmatic funding • Improve partnerships between government and industry • Accelerate deployment • Connect initiative outcomes to market needs • Reduce complexity using scrum of Scrums • Enhance self-organizing teams • Move our laboratory science to field deployed solutions • Iterative early delivery of market valued deliverables • Enables idea’s for public-private partnerships for deployment • Combined investments reduces each parties risk

  8. Future State & Shortened Time Frames Early Capability Results Deployment Reduce theValley of Death Capability Development Reduce theClient Funding Gap Early ideas forpublic / private partnerships Applied Research Early results fed to clients – results of feedback adjusts research agenda Use-Inspired Research Interactive teaming withearly feedback frompotential clients Basic Research

  9. Client Connectivity Vector Interactive teaming withearly feedback frompotential clients

  10. The Paradigm Shift PMBOK Agile Budget Schedule Scope Constraints Value /Vision Driven Plan Driven Estimates Budget Schedule Features The Plan creates cost/schedule estimates The Vision creates feature estimates

  11. Scope The Agile process in a PMBOK world Budget Schedule

  12. Challenges in our Research Environment • Staffing Resources • Some teams consist of only 1+ scientists with a wide scope of unique expertise • One FTE may be 3-4 individuals • Team members are typically not co-located

  13. Terminology PNNL SCRUM = • Initiative Leader • Team Leader Facilitator • Cycle, Gate . . . • ~ 90 days • Research Agenda or Hypothesis Stack • Product Owner • ScrumMaster • Sprint • Sprint length • Product Backlog

  14. Pilot: Three initiatives injecting Agile differently • Initiative for Explosives Detection (IED) • IED will deliver anew science base of explosives detectiontechnologies and capabilities for PNNL • This new capability will enable our clients in DOE, DOD, DHS and the Intelligence Community to deploy new science based IED solutions into field operations • Information Infrastructure Integrity Initiative • Create a new and fundamentally different approach, methods and tools for cyber-security and information integrity that is predictive and adaptiverather than reactive. • Enable PNNL to provide revolutionary, next-generation information integrity solutions for all mission areas. • Technosocial Predictive Analytics • Provide decision making through integration of human and physical models, leveraging insights from social and natural sciences • Establish a new Predictive Analytics science that has a unique multidisciplinary focus enabling reasoning across human and physical factors.

  15. Pilot: Application of Scrum principles Perfect for a Scrum of Scrums Traditional Initiative Structure Advisors • Visionary Leadership Scrum • Initiative Leader • Advisory Committee • Focus Areas Leads Lead FocusAreas FocusAreas • Technical Team Scrum • Focus Area Leader • Project Teams Project Teams Project Teams Project Teams

  16. Lessons Learned • Many team members, spread across multiple disciplines and geographically dispersed • Some project are too small to team • Frequent iterations (4x per year vs. 1x) provide much better interactions with perspective clients • The Sprint planning meetings and Retrospectives – provide good team building – we used to do more “facilitated planning meetings” – Scrum replaces those • Involving the “whole team” is important – Admin, Marketing, Finance, etc. • Pushes the Initiative Leader to really “own” the vision

  17. Benefits and ImpactsAccelerating: “Deployment of Science-based Solutions” Increased Lab Initiative performance and impact Increased ability to attract earlier programmatic sponsors Increased, measurable ROI from Lab initiatives Enhanced opportunity for partnering between Government and Industry Shortened timeframe for deployment of new technologies

  18. Thank you Gary Morgan – gary.morgan@pnl.gov Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Chief Science and Technology Office

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