Dual-Track Agile for Discovery & Development - Adriana Katrandzhieva The talk will focus on one of the ways teams can ensure continuous delivery and design in their projects. The so-called ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of discovery and development throughout the product design and delivery process. These continually feedback into each other informing new hypothesis that can be tested in order to be proven/disproven. This model is not always easy to implement out of the box and so I will share my own experiences in applying it in practice - what worked, what didn't and how the model can be adjusted to fit different teams and organisational environments.

1. Adriana Katrandzhieva
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2. Dual Track Agile for
Discovery & Development

3. What will be covered

4. Poll

5. Poll

6. What is Dual-Track Agile & Where it
comes from?
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7. 20072005 2012
Intro to
‘dual-track
scrum’ by
Marty Cagan
and Jeff
Patton
First
referenced by
Lynn Miller
Referenced in a
paper by
Miller’s
colleague -
Desirée Sy
What is Dual-Track Agile?
2020
Cagan speak
of continuous
discovery
2015

8. “The ‘Dual-track’ model shows the parallel tracks of
discovery and development throughout the
product design and delivery process.These
continually feedback into each other informing
new hypothesis. ”

10. Benefits of using the Dual-Track
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11. Managing a vast
product space
Benefits
Team comms &
user/stakeholder
involvement
Accelerated delivery (of
the right thing)
Stakeholder
management
Lower development
cost

12. Challenges of using the Dual-Track
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13. Team split for
delivery vs
discovery
Delivery pressures can
often make the delivery
track a higher priority
focus
Challenges
Making a call: build
it, kill it or keep
learning
Timeboxing
discovery
activities is
hard
Prioritising discovery
items - ‘How to predict
what you need to learn
next?’

14. How to apply in practice?
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16. Ideas
Priority for
Discovery
In
Progress
Ready for
Delivery
Explored
Explored
& Parked
Discovery
track/Board
Development
track/Board
Backlog Prioritised
In
Analysis
Ready
In
Progress
Sign off Done
Discovery
track/Board
Delivery
track/Board

17. Ideas
Priority for
Discovery
In
Progress
Ready for
Delivery
Explored
Explored
& Parked
Discovery
track/Board
Backlog Prioritised
In
Analysis
Ready
In
Progress
Sign off Done
Discovery
track/Board
Delivery
track/Board
Development
track/Board

18. Breaking some Myths
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22. Poll

23. Poll

24. Adriana Katrandzhieva
Senior Business Analyst & Delivery Consultant
akatrand@thoughtworks.com | thoughtworks.com
Twitter: #YConf2020 @katrandzhieva
Thank You!