The document provides an introduction to agile methodology. It discusses some of the key principles of agile, including welcoming change, reducing risk, and delivering value incrementally. It also compares agile to traditional waterfall methodology, noting that agile works through constant replanning and slicing work into small achievable pieces. The document suggests taking a pragmatic approach to planning by only planning for the immediate future and making decisions based on current information.

1. The Why and What
INTRODUCTION TO AGILE
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2. “ Plans are
useless, but
planning is
everything ”
US President Edward D. Eisenhower, 1957
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3. About me
Change Agent
Teaching
Agile
RoR developer
Agile since 2001 1st site at the age of 14
Certified Scrum Master
LAMP
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Agile UX
Passionate Kanban
FOSS enthusiast Drupal Certified Scrum Professional
PHP developer Amnesty International
Scrum
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4. The story so
far

5. Before agile
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Winston Royce, 1970

6. Winston Royce on Waterfall
“ ... The
implementation
described above is
risky and invites
failure.
”
Winston Royce, 1970
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2001 http://agilemanifesto.org

8. Agile – new and
shiny?

9. What is Agile about?
 Welcoming change
 Working with uncertainty
 Reducing risk
 Delivering value at every step
 Quality of products
 Retaining people & talent

10. Agile does all that by ...
 Constantly reprioritising and replanning
 Slicing requirements into small & achievable
pieces of work
 Slicing requirements for value
 Empowering their teams and people

11. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and Process and
over
interactions tools
Working Comprehensive
over
software documentation
Customer Contract
over
collaboration negotiation
Responding to Following a
over
change plan
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12. Waterfall vs
Agile

13. Plan
Build
Waterfall
Test
Review
Deploy
Plan Plan Plan Plan
Build Build Build Build
Agile
Review Deploy
Test Test Test Test
Review Review Review Review

14. Who is using Agile?

15. Agile in perspective
Learning organization
Lean
Agile
XP, Scrum, Chrystal, DSDM...

16. How to plan with
uncertainty

17. "Uncertainty is an
uncomfortable position
but certainty is an
absurd position"
- Voltaire

18. On the 20 September 2012 you
will be doing ...

19. The PM Triangle
Cost
Quality
Schedule Scope
Maximum of 2 can be
fixed!

20. A common sense approach
We make decision
based on the
... but do it often
information we
have
Rather than
... we spread
making one all-
decision-making
encompassing set
across the project
of decisions

21. Don’t waste time ...
... detailing out the distant future
– things WILL change
Focus on the immediate future
Things get blurrier the further
away they are
ROADMAPS!

22. An Agile Roadmap

23. How do we work with Digital?

24. How Digital works
Project 1
Project 4
Project 2 Project 1
Dev team
Bug 1 sprint
Task 1 planning
Task 1
PM
prioritisation Project 2
Project 4 meeting Prioritised
backlog
Bug 1
Individual Project 4 Project 4
projects &
tasks Bug 1 Bug 1
Task 1 Task 1
Sprint Sprint
Dev team working backlog
outcome on items in sprint
backlog

25. Lets work together!

26. Any Questions?
Michael Chik
mchik@macmillan.org.uk
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