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Amy Wagner
Agile Coach
Government Digital Service
@amyeee
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Being Agile
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What are your
confidence levels
with Agile?
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Common phrases:
We do Agile
We’re an Agile team
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Misconceptions:
Agile is a cult
Agile is a sham
Agile means no discipline
Agile means no planning
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Agile is a culture, "
not a process
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Agile is an attitude,
not a rule book
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The folks
who wrote
the Agile
Manifesto
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Individuals and interactions !
over processes & tools"
Working software !
over comprehensive documentation"
Customer collaboration !
over contract negotiation"
Responding to change !
over following a plan"
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That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more.
Delivering content
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The ‘traditional’
problem
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The traditional way of
managing projects is
often called waterfall
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PLANNING
DESIGN
BUILD
QA / TEST
LAUNCH
WATERFALL
Linear, dependent, cascading phases over time.
TIME
FEATURE A
FEATURE B
FEATURE C
FEATURE D
FEATURE A
FEATURE B
FEATURE C
FEATURE D
FEATURE A
FEATURE B
FEATURE C
FEATURE D
FEATURE A
FEATURE B
FEATURE C
FEATURE D
FEATURE A
FEATURE B
FEATURE C
FEATURE D
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AGILE
PLANNING
FEATURE A
RELEASE
DESIGN BUILD
TEST
PLANNING
FEATURE B
RELEASE
DESIGN BUILD
TEST
PLANNING
FEATURE C
RELEASE
DESIGN BUILD
TEST
PLANNING
FEATURE D
RELEASE
DESIGN BUILD
TEST
Small self-contained iterations around features.
TIME
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Waterfall delivers the
plan, Agile delivers
the value
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The Thames
Tunnel opened
170 years ago
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Then:!
Traditional project management
techniques originated from civil
construction, engineering & defence.
Projects were run ad-hoc by architects,
engineers or master builders.
Project management only became a
distinct discipline after the 1950s.
Source: Global Project Management Handbook. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006.
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Now:!
most people are using
traditional project
management techniques...
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...to manage projects that
are not devised to build
bridges or bombs.
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The rate of change in the
world is faster than ever
before.
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There is ever-increasing
demand for innovation.
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We have made
grave mistakes with
waterfall
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Your Agile kit bag
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Rational Unified Process, Scrum,
Crystal Clear, Extreme Programming
(XP), Adaptive Software
Development, Feature Driven
Development (FDD), and Dynamic
Systems Development Method
(DSDM), Kanban and more...
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Time-boxing your
work into 1 or 2 week
chunks
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Scrum (GDS flavour)
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A Kanban wall
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Kanban for content
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DESIGN DONE
DRAFT DEVELOP
Content Content Content Content
Content
Content
Content
Content
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TRELLO
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TRELLO
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A retrospective!
Assess the past 1 or 2 weeks &
identify: what went well, what didn’t
go well, what actions can we take.
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A stand-up!
Let’s do it!
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Are you doing Agile
or being Agile?
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Individuals and interactions !
over processes & tools
Working software "
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration !
over contract negotiation
Responding to change !
over following a plan
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That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we
value the items on the left more.
Delivering content
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A few words of
warning... Agile is
not The Answer or a
silver bullet
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Agile tools &
techniques will help
you find & optimise
the right process for
your team
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Amy Wagner
Agile Coach
Government Digital Service
@amyeee