Build Your BizDevOps Playbook
Embrace a team sport culture built around continuous business-IT collaboration to deliver great products.
Onsite Workshop
Without a mutual understanding and focus, your BizDevOps implementation will likely:
- Not support the organizational vision and objectives defined by your stakeholders.
- Create more friction and expand siloes between business and IT and among IT teams.
- Generate distrust between the decision makers and those delivering changes.
A carefully and thoughtfully developed playbook can:
- Remove the industry noise surrounding BizDevOps so teams can focus on what is important.
- Empower teams to adopt and tailor good practices that addresses their specific needs.
- Build a collaborative and respectful delivery environment, considering the existing organizational culture, thinking, and behaviors.
Module 1: Set Your Expectations
The Purpose
- Discuss the goals of your BizDevOps playbook.
- Identify the various perspectives who should be included in the BizDevOps discussion.
- Level set expectations of your BizDevOps implementation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identification of the key roles who should be included in the BizDevOps discussion.
- Learning of key practices to support your BizDevOps vision and goals.
- Your vision of BizDevOps in your organization.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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1.1 | Define BizDevOps. |
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1.2 | Understand your key stakeholders. |
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1.3 | Define your objectives. |
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Module 2: Set the Context
The Purpose
- Understand the various methods to initiate the structuring of facilitated collaboration.
- Share a common way of thinking and behaving with a set of principles.
- Focus BizDevOps adoption on key areas of software product delivery.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A chosen collaboration method (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban) to facilitate collaboration
- A mutually understanding and beneficial set of guiding principles
- Areas where BizDevOps will see the most benefit
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Select your foundation method. |
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2.2 | Define your guiding principles. |
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2.3 | Focus on the areas that matter. |
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Module 3: Tailor Your BizDevOps Playbook
The Purpose
- Review the good practices within Info-Tech’s BizDevOps Playbook.
- Tailor your playbook to reflect your circumstances.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding of the key plays involved in product delivery
- Product delivery plays that reflect the challenges and opportunities of your organization and support your BizDevOps vision
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Review and tailor the plays in your playbook |
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