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Wednesday 6th AprilGrecian, Millennium Biltmore, Los AngelesCogapp

Agile for beginners and thrillseekers

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This session- Who we are

- Why we’re running this session

- Thrills!

- Break

- More detail

- Questions and discussion

- Carry on the conversation

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Who we are- Gavin Mallory - Head of Production @ Gavin_Mallory

- Andy Cummins - Head of Technical Production @qmins

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Where we’re from- Cogapp

- Digital innovation since 1985, Agile since 2010

- We work with organisations to help them realise their most ambitious digital media initiatives

- cogapp.com @cogapp

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Why are we running this session?

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Agile DigitalMuseums

for projectsis transformational

incogapp.com/agile

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Carry on the conversation- Today at 12:30 (straight after this session)

- Sixth Street Tavern, 6th and Hope

- Ask us ANYTHING!

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Exercise- Gavin is a billionaire

- He wants to start his own airline - GavInTheSky.com

- You work for a company that makes planes and you’re competing for the contract

- You’ll work in teams

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- Make me one plane

- Six windows

- Team initials on the wings

- Cockpit

- 2 minutes

Your brief

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Please bring your planes up to be reviewed!

Inspection

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Revised brief- 6 windows down each side

- Door

- Cockpit

- Team initials on each wing

- Has to fly!

- Make as many planes as you can

- Pass QA

- If you run out paper come to Gavin (nominated person only)

- Production-line

- 2 minutes

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- 6 windows down each side

- Door

- Cockpit

- Team initials on each wing

- Has to fly!

- Make as many planes as you can

- Pass QA

- If you run out paper come to Gavin (nominated person only)

- Anyone can do anything. Organise yourselves.

- Only rule is more than one person has to be involved in each plane

- 2 minutes

Newly revised brief

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- Start

- Stop

- Continue

- 2 minutes

Retrospective

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Same brief- 6 windows down each side

- Door

- Cockpit

- Team initials on each wing

- Has to fly!

- Pass QA

- Make as many planes as you can

- If you run out paper come to Gavin (nominated person only)

- Anyone can do anything. Organise yourselves.

- Only rule is more than one person has to be involved in each plane

- 2 minutes

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- Start

- Stop

- Continue

- 2 minutes

Retrospective

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Same brief- 6 windows down each side

- Door

- Cockpit

- Team initials on each wing

- Has to fly!

- Pass QA

- Make as many planes as you can

- If you run out paper come to Gavin (nominated person only)

- Anyone can do anything. Organise yourselves.

- Only rule is more than one person has to be involved in each plane

- 2 minutes

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@cogapp

- Start

- Stop

- Continue

- 2 minutes

Retrospective

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Revised brief- SEVEN windows down each side!!!!

- THREE Doors

- BIGGER Cockpit

- Team initials on each wing

- Has to fly!

- Pass QA

- Make as many planes as you can

- If you run out paper come to Gavin (nominated person only)

- Anyone can do anything. Organise yourselves.

- Only rule is more than one person has to be involved in each plane

- 2 minutes

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- Start

- Stop

- Continue

- 2 minutes

Retrospective

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What did we learn?

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Let’s break

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Methodology: The Pleasures and Pains of AgileWednesday 6th AprilGrecian, Millennium Biltmore, Los AngelesCogapp

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Recent Case Studies- Yiddish Book Center

- Baseball Hall of Fame

- British Library

- Southbank Centre

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What is Agile?- A method of delivering software one bit at a time

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What is Agile not?- A silver bullet

- Strategy

- Easy

- Make it up as you go along

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The Pleasures- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

- Working software over comprehensive documentation

- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

- Responding to change over following a plan

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It’s a Mindset- Culture of delivery, getting things done

- Team cohesion and trust

- Strong leadership and direction

- Must-have technical processes help support the above

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Pleasure: Culture- Continuous delivery and improvement is the goal

- Everyone has to be on-board from leadership down the chain

- Overall vision is more important than individual goals

- Engender an understanding that priority of work will be in line with strategy

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Pains: Culture- Everyone isn’t on-board, personal goals become more

important than the overall strategy

- An aversion to delivering real world products to help continuous improvement, AKA an aversion to MVP and iteration

- That the process is seen as a ‘tech thing’ rather an organisational priority

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‘Agile’- Lots of flavours (we use Scrum)

- Lots of experts

- Can become lots of process

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Agile Roles- Product Owner

- Scrum master

- Developers

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Roles: Product owner- Project champion

- Represents the ‘Client’

- Understands requirements

- Communicates requirements to team

- Empowered to make decisions

- Prioritises the work to deliver the maximum organsational value

- One person

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Roles: Scrum master- Runs the team

- Sometimes helps if they are technically adept

- Facilitator

- Enables developers to focus on work

- Responsible for meetings

- Works closely with Product Owner

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Roles: Developers- Usually 5 to 7 people

- Anyone who contributes to the team (includes UX and design as well as coders)

- Cross-disciplinary and cross-train

- ‘We’ rather than ‘I’

- Commit to estimates

- Communicate

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Pleasure: Leadership & Direction- Overall vision needs to be in place

- Leadership needs to be fully engaged

- Leadership needs to be involved and make clear their strategic aims

- Product Owner needs to translate strategy into work for the Agile team

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Pain: Leadership & Direction- Strategy and vision isn’t made clear

- Leadership is unavailable

- Decisions are made slowly

- Product Owner is not full-time

- Product Owner isn’t empowered to make decisions based on strategy

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Agile Process- Planning

- Sprints

- Standups

- Demo

- Retrospective

- Minimum Viable Product

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Process: Planning- At the start of a Sprint with everyone

- Allow half a day (more when you start)

- Plan what we can deliver this Sprint

- Sprint goal

- Ask Product Owner questions

- Estimates

- Everyone commits

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Process: Sprints- Two weeks

- Deliver something at the end

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Process: Standups- Every morning with everyone

- 15 minutes maximum

- What I did yesterday

- What I’ll do today

- Impediments

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Process: Demo- Show what you will deliver from the Sprint

- Meeting owned by Product Owner

- All team attend

- All stakeholders are invited

- Celebratory feel

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Process: Retrospective- Help the team understand what worked well, and what

didn't

- Take action based on what you discuss

- Review what we said last retrospective and check if we’ve fixed it

- Not a finger-pointing exercise

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Process: Minimum Viable Product- MVP

- Meets your core requirements

- High-quality

- Fully tested

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Pleasure: Agile Process- Should be as lightweight as you can make it (but no

lighter)

- Needs someone to manage the process and ensure people adhere to it

- Needs engagement from all stakeholders

- Needs a strong tech lead that puts the needs of the organisation ahead of personal technical preferences

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Pain: Agile Process- Lack of engagement from stakeholders

- Lack of understanding of the process

- Process gets in the way of development

- Technical infrastructure inadequate for working in an Agile way

- Content production isn’t in sync with Agile development

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Key Points- Team must understand the ethos, roles and lingo of the

Agile process

- Must have a strong tech lead

- Must be clear direction from leadership

- Product Owner should be available, empowered and committed

- Nurture engagement from stakeholders

- It’s a mindset, not a set of rules

- Agile gets stuff done!

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Agile DigitalMuseums

for projectsis transformational

incogapp.com/agile

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Carry on the conversation- Today at 12:30 (straight after this session)

- Sixth Street Tavern, 6th and Hope

- Ask us ANYTHING!

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