AGILE:NOT JUST AN IT

THINGJuly 12 2016

A LITTLE HISTORYAgile born in technology

Lightweight delivery methods started to pop up Unified Process, DSDM XP and Scrum

Agile Manifesto (2001)

SOME INTERESTING READSForbes

Scrum Is a Major Management Discovery The Best-Kept Management Secret on the Planet:

Agile

SCRUM IS A MAJOR DISCOVERYSteve Denning – discovered Scrum while working

on a book focused on resolving an old management problem: How do you combine rapid innovation with disciplined execution?

In doing this, he kept hearing about Scrum – but this was coming from the software industry

Reporting 200-400 percent productivity increases! “Bad” implementations of Scrum has very poor results

BEST KEPT SECRET - AGILEAgile achieved what was once thought impossible:

Disciplined execution and continuous innovation Proven by thousands of organizations around the

world

Then why is this not adopted globally outside of software?

AGILE PRACTICES Organize work in short cycles Team reports to the client, not the manager Team estimates how much time the work will take Team decides how much work they can do Team decides how to do the work Team measures its own performance Work goals defined before each cycle starts Work goals defined through user stories Systematically remove impediments Conduct retrospective reviews

PONDER THIS…What about this is specific to software

development?

What about those practices wouldn’t work in a business domain and why?

EXERCISE – VOCABULARYLook at the list of words provided:

What will you say when your non-software friend asks you…What concepts only apply to software?What are the top 2-3 most important concepts to

you?Why are you so passionate about these ones in

particular?

THINK ABOUT IT…Agile is a way of ‘being’, a set of values and principles

These practices challenge us to work in a fast paced environment To learn quickly Fail fast Adapt to change

Numbers of organizations are adopting agile ways of working across the organization…

Why not us?

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