Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover from Tanzu Talk

Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover

59 minutes Posted Aug 15, 2023 at 1:27 pm.

Introductions

What kind of software does JLR make?

What does ”digital” mean?

The integration challenge

The influence of lean manufactoring on software (or lack thereof!)

Software as a commodity, not the best way to think

The 5 year journey

How the tools changed the culture: app developers

The need for microservices to support faster release cycles

The tools driving the culture

Why wasn’t what you had good enough?

Psychological Safety

Changing how people work, culture

Bottoms up and tops down change - you need both

The mismatch with finance

Finance doesn’t understand software, and developers don’t understand finance

Bryan’s finance learnings

The missing finance feedback loop

Coté on the finance/developer mismatch

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What does a car manufacture need to do to speed up their software delivery cycle? Manufacturing is often finely tuned following lean and other principles, but the software development and delivery process, oddly, is not. In this episode, we talk about he last five years of software transformation at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

We discuss the type of software JLR creates for itself, the need to change to transform (driven by quality and speed of delivery), putting CI/CD in place, challenges to change management (mostly about people), and the mismatch between finance and software.

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Also, you can watch the video of this episode here, if you like that kind of thing.

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