This deck is the presentation part of a meetup on Ambler's Agile Modelling stuff. For the source go here; agilemodeling.com

1. An introduction to
Scott Ambler’s
Agile Modelling
Presented by Craig Brown
Agile & Scrum User Group
Hosted at Aconex, Melbourne August 2016

2. Venue and hosts

3. Don’t miss Jeff Patton
Passionate Product
Ownership coming to
Melbourne,
September 1-2
Jeff Patton is back in Australia throughout August to run another series of his highly
acclaimed Passionate Product Owner workshops. Whether you are new to Agile
delivery or an expert in the field, do not miss this unique opportunity to learn from one
of the most respected people in the Agile community.
Passionate Product Ownership is a course that blends solid product management, user
experience design, and design thinking into a collaborative team-based approach to
Scrum product ownership. This course is well suited to Product Owners, Scrum Masters,
Business Analysts, Engineers, Designers, Agile Coaches and anyone who needs to fulfil
or support a Product Owner or role who just wants to design and build great, successful
products. You will learn concepts such as User Story Mapping, Lean Startup and
Validated Learning, Design Thinking, Workshop facilitation and card modelling,
Lightweight persona sketching, Collaborative design sketching, Paper prototyping and
testing and Minimal Viable Product (MVP) techniques.
You will also leave the course with plenty of resources and will qualify as a Certified
Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
Jeff Patton is the author of the best selling book “User Story Mapping” and helps
companies adopt a way of working that’s focused on building great products, not just
building stuff faster. Jeff blends a mixture of Agile thinking, Lean and Lean Startup
Thinking, and UX Design and Design Thinking to end up with a holistic product-centric
way of working. Jeff has worked in software development for over 20 years in a variety
of roles include product manager, engineer, project manager, coach, and consultant.
Seats are still available for his Melbourne course September 1-2. Melbourne Agile and
Scrum members can get 5% off by using the code MEL-AGILE. Discounts are also
available for groups of 5+ people.
Hope to see you there.
YOW! Team

4. • Aconex
• careers.aconex.com
• Software engineers
• UX Designers
• Product Owners
• Carsales
• careers.carsalesnetwork.com.au
• Iteration Manager / Project Manager /
Agile Coach
• AGL
• Agile Coaches and Business analysts
• Care of Christiane Anderson

5. An introduction to
Scott Ambler’s
Agile Modelling
Presented by Craig Brown
Agile & Scrum User Group
Hosted at Aconex, Melbourne August 2016

6. Background
• Scott Ambler
• Agile Modelling

9. Values and Principles
Models promote
communication between
your team and your
project stakeholders as
well as between
developers on your team.
Communication
It’s important that
developers understand
that models are critical for
simplifying both software
and the software
process—it’s much easier
to explore an idea, and
improve upon it as your
understanding increases,
by drawing a diagram or
two instead of writing
tens or even hundreds of
lines of code.
Simplicity
Kent Beck says it best
in Extreme Programming
Explained: “Optimism is
an occupational hazard of
programming, feedback is
the treatment.” By
communicating your ideas
through diagrams, you
quickly gain feedback,
enabling you to act on
that advice.
Feedback
Courage is important
because you need to make
important decisions and
be able to change
direction by either
discarding or refactoring
your work when some of
your decisions prove
inadequate
Courage
The best developers have
the humility to recognize
that they don't know
everything, that their
fellow developers, their
customers, and in fact all
project stakeholders also
have their own areas of
expertise and have value
to add to a project. An
effective approach is to
assume that everyone
involved with your project
has equal value and
therefore should be
treated with respect. Huet
Landry suggests the
concept of "Other
Esteem", instead of "Self
Esteem", where you treat
the opinions of others as if
they have more value than
yours. With this approach
your first reaction to
another's idea will be
most positive.
Humility

10. Values and Principles
Communication Simplicity Feedback Courage Humility

11. Practices

12. How do I start?
Business
Analyst
Programmer Architect Project
Manager
QA/Tester
http://agilemodeling.com/essays/whereDoIStart.htm

13. Pulse check
Does this resonate with the Heart of Agile?

14. Activity
• Choose a scenario
• Model storming
• Generate a Backlog
• Check against framework
• Discussion on impediments to going forward

15. Scenario
Problem/Hypothesis
Some people consistently aspire to
come, but don’t. If we can visualise who
doesn’t come we can manage them and
their behaviour better.
We want to
improve
the
Meetup
experience
People
signing up
on RSVP
and locking
out others
Meetup
already has
a check in
feature
Organisers
are too
busy to do
the check
in
themselves
• Model the problem
• Model the solution
• Use three models
• Try to generate unique insights
from each different model
• Check behaviours against Agile
Modelling values and practices

16. Scenario
Problem/Hypothesis
Some people consistently aspire to
come, but don’t. If we can visualise who
doesn’t come we can manage them and
their behaviour better.
We want to
improve
the
Meetup
experience
People
signing up
on RSVP
and locking
out others
Meetup
already has
a check in
feature
Organisers
are too
busy to do
the check
in
themselves
Goals and Constraints
Organisers are
too busy to
check in
So let’s have
people self
check in
Or maybe
check each
other in
We need to
visualise the
results
Show who
intends to
come but
doesn’t check
in
Be able to
contact
them/manage
their
behaviour

17. Practices
• An activity
• Model the problem
• Model the solution
• Use three models
• Try to generate unique insights
from each different model
• Check behaviours against Agile
Modelling values and practices

18. Practices
• An activity
• Model the problem
• Model the solution
• Use three models
• Try to generate unique insights
from each different model
• Check behaviours against Agile
Modelling values and practices
Agile
Modelling
Communi
cation
Simplicity
FeedbackCourage
Humility

19. Practices
• An activity
• Model the problem
• Model the solution
• Use three models
• Try to generate unique insights
from each different model
• Check behaviours against Agile
Modelling values and practices

20. AM Table of Contents | Q&A
• Active Stakeholder Participation
• Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD)
• Agile Modeling and RUP
• Agile Modeling and XP
• Agile Models Distilled
• Agile Requirements Change Management
• Downloads
• Enterprise Modeling Anti Patterns
• Essays and Other Resources
• Examining the Model Driven Architecture
(MDA)
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Generalizing Specialists
• Inclusive Models
• An Introduction to Agile Modeling
• Introduction to the Diagrams of UML 2.0
• Modeling Style Guidelines
• Phases Examined
• Practices of AM
• Principles of AM
• Simple Tools or CASE Tools?
• Site Map
• Training in Agile Model Driven Development
• Values of AM
• Where Do I Start?-

21. • Aconex
• careers.aconex.com
• Software engineers
• UX Designers
• Product Owners
• Carsales
• careers.carsalesnetwork.com.au
• Iteration Manager / Project Manager /
Agile Coach
• AGL
• Agile Coaches and Business analysts
• Care of Christiane Anderson

22. Don’t miss Jeff Patton
Passionate Product
Ownership coming to
Melbourne,
September 1-2
Jeff Patton is back in Australia throughout August to run another series of his highly
acclaimed Passionate Product Owner workshops. Whether you are new to Agile
delivery or an expert in the field, do not miss this unique opportunity to learn from one
of the most respected people in the Agile community.
Passionate Product Ownership is a course that blends solid product management, user
experience design, and design thinking into a collaborative team-based approach to
Scrum product ownership. This course is well suited to Product Owners, Scrum Masters,
Business Analysts, Engineers, Designers, Agile Coaches and anyone who needs to fulfil
or support a Product Owner or role who just wants to design and build great, successful
products. You will learn concepts such as User Story Mapping, Lean Startup and
Validated Learning, Design Thinking, Workshop facilitation and card modelling,
Lightweight persona sketching, Collaborative design sketching, Paper prototyping and
testing and Minimal Viable Product (MVP) techniques.
You will also leave the course with plenty of resources and will qualify as a Certified
Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
Jeff Patton is the author of the best selling book “User Story Mapping” and helps
companies adopt a way of working that’s focused on building great products, not just
building stuff faster. Jeff blends a mixture of Agile thinking, Lean and Lean Startup
Thinking, and UX Design and Design Thinking to end up with a holistic product-centric
way of working. Jeff has worked in software development for over 20 years in a variety
of roles include product manager, engineer, project manager, coach, and consultant.
Seats are still available for his Melbourne course September 1-2. Melbourne Agile and
Scrum members can get 5% off by using the code MEL-AGILE. Discounts are also
available for groups of 5+ people.
Hope to see you there.
YOW! Team

23. Venue and hosts