Another Speaker talking without experience
Sorry but Linda Rising sounds like someone that is talking about something that she has no experience in - and being a COO it is quite a possibility.
Linda uses incomplete examples and metaphors to put forward a lacking State or concept. Pretty poor actually, but it all shows she needs a bigger view on Agile and a better understand of how to be a proper COO.
Actually, 10+ plus years of working and utilising Agile concepts is a good enough dataset showing that Agile does add more value than old-school waterfall methods. Agile is after all, just 'FUNCTIONAL' Coding, breaking functions and features into encapsulated pieces of work (that also includes what is needed to make post-live support) and wrapping a pull process around everything.
BUT to move into a DevOps approach you need to get rid of Scrum as it adds artificial barriers to continual improvement. Kanban works better than Scrum.
Anyone that fails within Agile has a poor framework and management around them, so it's not their fault.
If Rising is a COO then she is a very poor one. The 'As Is' and 'To Be' Operating Models have nothing to do with Science, nor do the 'Agile' coded improvements to Capabilities - it's adding new "business benefits" to the Business Capabilities - all of which links to Strategy..
Project Work (Coding) -> Deliverables (Software) -> Programme (of Projects) -> New or Improved Capability -> Business Benefit
I simply feel Linda Rising's view is just wrong and based on poor knowledge and understand
Biting the hand that feeds IT
