This document summarizes Radtac's experience with agile transformations, including: 1) Their major case study transforming William Hill Online through adopting agile practices to improve delivery of the Trafalgar project and allow faster response to changing demands. 2) Other notable case studies Radtac has conducted, though these are not described in detail. 3) How Radtac wrote their book "Agile Foundation" to provide an unbiased overview of agile principles and practices and support the BCS Agile Foundation certification. They engaged a team of agile experts and practitioners to collaboratively write and review the book using agile methods.

1. Agile Foundation
Principles, Practices & Frameworks
Overview & Case Study

2. What we’ve done and learnt
Agile Foundation – the book
Major case study (William Hill Online)
Other notable case studies
Agenda
Radtac / Pete Measey Introductions
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3. Credentials
Agile Evolved
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4. Agile Evolved
Why we’re here
Agile Evolved
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We believe in challenging the status quo
and in the innate ability of people to rise
to the challenges of their organisation
Culture
Talent
Consultancy
Training
17YEARS
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5. What we do
Radtac services
Agile Evolved
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We provide a fully integrated portfolio of services:
Culture ConsultingVision and behavioural
transformation
Capability
transformation
TalentTraining
Knowledge
transformation
Recruiting the best
agile people
We focus on a pragmatic and realistic integration of modern and existing delivery
and management frameworks, with a focus on Lean, Agile and Kanban thinking.
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6. How we work
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Agile Evolved
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We enable our clients to achieve sustainable and continuous improvement by
unlocking their human potential, using our exceptional people and unparalleled
practical industry experience.
Evolution over revolution
Collaborative partnerships over supplier relationships
Pragmatic transformation over fundamentalist dogma
Transformational leadership over transactional management
By doing this we have come to value:
We believe there is value associated with the statements on the right,
however we value the statements on the left more.

7. Introduction
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Agile Evolved
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Agile Transformation Consultant
30 years mainly Information Technology
Agile Specialist Since 1994
Certified Scrum Trainer, DSDM Trainer,
Agile PM Trainer, APMG Lean, SAFe
Scaled Agilist, Prince2 Practitioner, PMI
Agile Certified Practitioner.
Ex DSDM Director
Ex Adjunct Professor Project
Management Hult University
Ex BCS Agile Committee
Peter Measey
Radtac CEO

8. What we’ve done and learnt
Agile Foundation – the book
Major case study (William Hill Online)
Other notable case studies
Agenda
Agile Foundation – the book
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9. Agile Evolved
Why did we write
this book?
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There is no non-framework biased
Agile Foundation book that
holistically brings everything ‘Agile’
together in one place – this is it

10. Pragmatic Agile
One size doesn’t fit all
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Our
Education
System

11. Agile Evolved
A unique foundation level description of Agile from a generic
perspective, not biased to any specific Agile framework. This
means it will give you an excellent start point for your Agile
journey that overviews all the key values principles and practices
of Agile, and then references out to further detail.
As supporting material and a reference book for the BCS Agile
Foundation syllabus, course and certifications
(bcs.org/agilecertified).
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What is the Agile
Foundation book?
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Agile Evolved

12. How did we write the book?
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Peter Measey (lead author & editor)
Alex Gray (co-author)
Chris Berridge (co-author)
Darren Wilmshurst (co-author)
Richard Levy (co-author)
Michael Short (co-author)
Barbara Roberts (co-author and reviewer)
Lazaro Wolf (co-author)
Les Oliver (reviewer)
Randal Cooper (reviewer)
Matt Roadnight (Scrum section review)
David J Anderson (Kanban section review)
Tom Poppendieck (Lean Software
Development section review)
Dean Leffingwell (SAFe section review)
Get a great
team together
Define what we
want to create
Plan and create
in an Agile way

14. What we’ve done and learnt
Agile Foundation – the book
Major case study (William Hill Online)
Other notable case studies
Agenda
Major case study (William Hill Online)
Agile Evolved
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15. Agile Evolved
William Hill Online
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80 years old, traditionally a shop retail
and bookmaking business
Significant Growth in Online Sector in 6 years
Gaming now 50% of business
New Entrants (Bet365)
Clients using emergent technologies
(mobile / tablet)
£600,000,000.00
£450,000,000.00
£300,000,000.00
£150,000,000.00
£0.00
Revenue (CAGR = 26%)
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2008 2014

16. Agile Evolved
Trafalgar
The original project
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Large programme to face challenge of being supplier dependant
Recognised need to launch new products and features when William Hill
wanted to rather than the supplier
Customer service and on-line experience a key differentiator
Significant number of moving demands as far a requirements
Technology that was a “responsive design” – one deployment to all platforms
Proving intractable to waterfall delivery
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17. Trafalgar
Mind the Gap
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“We saw that we needed to deliver the Trafalgar software project and recognised
the gap between where we were and what we needed to improve efficiency of
delivery for that product, this was a gap we had to close”
Adopted Agile to solve these issues of uncertainty that don’t suit waterfall
Solution:
Introduced a Small team from Radtac to develop Agile approach
Started small on a sub team
Communication, visibility, effectiveness, self-improvement

18. Strategy
supported by Agile
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“The only sustainable competitive advantage is your organisation’s ability to
learn faster than the competition”
“We do not blame for failure….we criticise those who fail to help or fail to ask for help”
Attitudes
To create an enjoyable and memorable
experience our customers love and trust
We do this through a deep understanding
of our customers’ desires, delivering
innovation in a constantly improving and
engaging environment
WHY?
WHAT?

19. Why we couldn’t go on like this
Agile Evolved
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Silo organisation
Big picture frustrated by
delivery mechanism
Very time consuming and
expensive to run in a rapidly
changing market with cost
and tax pressures

20. Why we can work like this
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Agile teams to deliver projects
and programmes
Big picture prioritised and
feature driven to early delivery
New tools such as Yammer,
Transformation team

21. Less of this... ...More of this
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F2F Collaboration Efficiency More Actions Results Learnings

22. Success is not final.
Failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Courage

23. What we’ve done and learnt
Agile Foundation – the book
Major case study (William Hill Online)
Other notable case studies
Agenda
Other notable case studies
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24. Other notable Agile case studies
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