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What Agile Means To Me

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- AON - Bank of Ireland - ERTP - Innovations - DFID Aid Platform

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What Agile Means To Me

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Both a blessing & a curse

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A DisneyLand for Developers

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if disneyland is being treated like a highly qualified and trained professional rather than a faceless code machine - W. Hamill (2013)

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In a “Traditional“ Project ...

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Who spends weeks running manual test scripts?

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Not The Developers!

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Who has to spend days or weeks writing documents no one ever reads?

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Not The Developers!

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Who gets fingers pointed at them when a Framework doesn’t work out?

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Not The Developers!

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Who IS EXPECTED to “Manage Expectations” when a project is running late?

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Not The Developers!

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Who could effectively apply the same rigor to their tasks regardless of Agile?

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The Developers!

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Agile gives us

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- Shared Responsibility - Ability to say “No” - Quality Control - Openness & Transparency - Sustainability - Continuous Improvement

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Agile Requires ...

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... People give a s**t

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- Cross Functional & Adaptive - think about the Big Picture - want to communicate - strength to be honest - Demand quality

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