With an agency focus on IoT/M2M and other technology-based clients, it's in ThreeTwelve's DNA to elevate people over process by adapting Agile methodology to an agency setting. Here's an introduction to how and why we do what we do, the way we do.
An introduction to modern agile workflow & best practices for agencies. 5 key steps to a smooth & continuous workflow.
Including 9 case studies of industry leading agencies on how they implemented an Agile process and on how they perform Agile practices.
Modern Kanban Workflow Best Practices for Software Teams — Part 4 of "How to ...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 4 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
Modern Kanban Workflow Best Practices for Software Teams
* Idea / Backlog Handling with Kanban
* Define Work
* Define Stage Policies
* Visualize Work
* WIP Limits
* Ready Indicator
* Blocked Indicator
* Bug Handling
Kanban Methodologist Certification at XebiaPooja Gulati
Kanban is a Lean-agile method also referred to as a second-generation agile methodology. It adapts to your organization and project needs very rapidly and allows your team to operate at a very high level of productivity due to its evolutionary approach to manage change in the organization. It has proven to accelerate maturity through high visualization, control over the amount of work being done, acknowledgement and effective handling of the diversity of activities in your project, and root cause analysis through quantification.
A modern Kanban Board for Software Teams — Part 1 of "How to build the best S...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 1 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
A modern Kanban Board: 5 Key Steps for your effective Project Workflow
1. Establish a Workflow
2. Define Stage Policies
3. Visualize Work
4. Define Work-in-Progress (WIP) Limits
5. Continuously Improve
Process visualisation - step-by-step - by Natalie Yadrentseva - Kanban Day 2015French Kanban User Group
Benefits of the process visualization in an organization
How to synchronize teams and get all departments at the same page
How to start: build a Process Map step-by-step at the Process Visualization workshop (phases, people, timing)
Real industry examples: product development, manufacturing, software development
I would like to share my experience of holding of the process visualization workshops in various organizations. The purpose of these workshops is to eliminate communication between teams and departments, understand who reports to whom and where dependencies between departments are.
What's the difference between doing 'Agile' and being 'Agile'? Looking through the history, tools and techniques of agile software development will help you understand the agile 'mindset'.
An introduction to modern agile workflow & best practices for agencies. 5 key steps to a smooth & continuous workflow.
Including 9 case studies of industry leading agencies on how they implemented an Agile process and on how they perform Agile practices.
Modern Kanban Workflow Best Practices for Software Teams — Part 4 of "How to ...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 4 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
Modern Kanban Workflow Best Practices for Software Teams
* Idea / Backlog Handling with Kanban
* Define Work
* Define Stage Policies
* Visualize Work
* WIP Limits
* Ready Indicator
* Blocked Indicator
* Bug Handling
Kanban Methodologist Certification at XebiaPooja Gulati
Kanban is a Lean-agile method also referred to as a second-generation agile methodology. It adapts to your organization and project needs very rapidly and allows your team to operate at a very high level of productivity due to its evolutionary approach to manage change in the organization. It has proven to accelerate maturity through high visualization, control over the amount of work being done, acknowledgement and effective handling of the diversity of activities in your project, and root cause analysis through quantification.
A modern Kanban Board for Software Teams — Part 1 of "How to build the best S...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 1 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
A modern Kanban Board: 5 Key Steps for your effective Project Workflow
1. Establish a Workflow
2. Define Stage Policies
3. Visualize Work
4. Define Work-in-Progress (WIP) Limits
5. Continuously Improve
Process visualisation - step-by-step - by Natalie Yadrentseva - Kanban Day 2015French Kanban User Group
Benefits of the process visualization in an organization
How to synchronize teams and get all departments at the same page
How to start: build a Process Map step-by-step at the Process Visualization workshop (phases, people, timing)
Real industry examples: product development, manufacturing, software development
I would like to share my experience of holding of the process visualization workshops in various organizations. The purpose of these workshops is to eliminate communication between teams and departments, understand who reports to whom and where dependencies between departments are.
What's the difference between doing 'Agile' and being 'Agile'? Looking through the history, tools and techniques of agile software development will help you understand the agile 'mindset'.
PlatinumGames and Hansoft - the Road to AgilityHansoft AB
Presentation at GDC 2015 by Creative Producer Jean Pierre Kellams at PlatinumGames and Senior Coach Jon Leslie at Hansoft. Read more: ow.ly/JwCWc
PlatinumGames and Hansoft - the Road to Agility
More and more teams are moving towards agile or hybrids of agile and traditional methods. Managing the transition can be a challenge and it is important to align your teams, use the right metrics and organize the work in a good way in order to get studio wide buy-in and a satisfying result. In this session, Jean Pierre Kellams, Creative Producer of Scalebound from Osaka, Japan-based developer PlatinumGames, creator of titles such as Bayonetta, and Jon Leslie from Hansoft will tell you how the team at PlatinumGames made the switch. They will take you through the process, starting with the strengths and weaknesses that brought about the change, the actual transition, and the successes and failures that led to the realization that what seems ideal isn't always the case.
User Story Cycle Time - An Universal Agile Maturity MeasurementEthan Huang
Trying to define a comprehensive CMMI like Agile Maturity Model?
If you're running all Scrum meetings but cannot deliver every sprint, you're not agile at all, if you don't follow any Scrum format but you're delivering small features every couple of weeks you're still Agile - deliver the highest value in the shortest time.
User Story Cycle Time - one universal Agile maturity measurement you might be able to use in your Organization cross different teams.
Portfolio Kanban - Seeing the Big Picture Sandy Mamoli
Doing too many things at once can slow an entire organisation down. As every successful organisation will have more great ideas than they have capacity to build, it is tempting to start too many of them at the same time. However, too many projects in progress will slow down delivery of each and every one of them.
So, how can we make sure we work to our organisational capacity and don’t try to do too much? How do we make sure we’re working on the important and not just the urgent stuff? This is where Portfolio Kanban can help: In this session we will explore how Portfolio Kanban can help an organisation prioritise, plan and visually track its projects.
Through the example of Trade Me, New Zealand's biggest e-commerce site, I will demonstrate the practical application of Portfolio Kanban. I will explore how Trade Me have benefitted from the increased visibility and reduced work in progress, and how they are using Portfolio Kanban to direct the organisation’s Agile teams. Come along and enjoy tales of our successes, challenges and struggles on our (still continuing) journey towards awesome portfolio management.
5S is a workplace organizational process that improves productivity and quality. It is a fundamental process that is necessary to drive continuous improvement in all sizes of businesses.
This course will cover 5S Basics for the physical workplace (workstations, meeting rooms & other common areas) then move into utilizing 5S in the digital workspace.
The digital workplace is loaded with all types of information clutter (waste). We will show you how to utilize 5S so your team can help identify and eliminate these types of waste.
Additionally, 5S is most powerful when the entire organization is trained and engaged in the process. We will look at methods of achieving this.
Udemy Coupon Link
https://www.udemy.com/lean-office-5s/?couponCode=LEANOFFICE5S_SPECIAL
LKCE18 Jesper Boeg - Your improvement potential is much bigger than you think...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Many people in Agile and IT talk about Toyota Kata, but it seems very few have tried it out for real at any scale or duration and actual cases are far between. In this presentation I will share my last 4 years of experience with Toyota Kata and especially the job of scaling it across all layers of a 700 people IT organization. How does it translate to a context where the flow of value is counted in days and not seconds? Where did we fail, what adaptions were made, what results did we achieve and why is it both more powerful and more difficult than any of us believed?
A small presentation by Ashley-Christian Hardy on the basics of Scrum methodology, covering the basics of roles & responsibilities, events & ceremonies and scrum artefacts.
Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do itLviv Startup Club
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do it
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Іванна Заєць: Основи ПМа (PM’s Essentials)
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Emptying Your Cup an Agile Primer
Emptying Your Cup an Agile Primer is a introductory overview of Agile project management presented by Bruce Nix an experience Agile coach and project manager.
Presenter Bruce Nix is an Agile Coach and Sr. Project Manager with Lokion (www.lokion.com), a digital interactive agency that specializes in ecommerce, enterprise governance and digital strategy. Bruce has been actively engaged in agile adoptions for over 7 years and has worked diligently at influencing enterprises to take more lean and agile approaches to product delivery and has the scars and psychology bills to prove it.
Christian Titze, "Hello From the Other Side: Adapting the Agile Agency to Cli...WebVisions
Many agencies have become frustrated with over-specced sequential waterfall projects. Their inflexible methodologies have too often led to outcomes that didn’t realize their full potential. In contrast, agile methods like Scrum and Kanban have proven successful ways to build and run software. But how do you apply agile methods to the reality of an agency’s project based work? There are many challenges and the most crucial question is: what if our ideal work method and our clients’ realities don’t match?
Edenspiekermann have been working agile since 2009. They’ve since achieved terrific results and have never looked back. They now employ about as many developers as designers, creating meaningful digital products and services for global clients like Red Bull, Cisco Systems, The Economist and the German and Dutch Railways.
Christian will talk about the often challenging contrast between wanting to deliver the best possible product and making sure you’re satisfying the client’s internal project needs. How to deliver excellent customer satisfaction while working as agile as possible?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christian is the guy designers are ambivalent about. He’s not a font guy. He’s the business guy—the one who works the odd hours creating and maintaining relationships with some of the largest companies in the world. Over the past decade, he has led business development efforts for numerous agencies on three continents.
If "blogging" is the dirty word, then I am scum.Kevin Lim
I was guest speaker for the New Media Class (DMS155) at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). In this presentation, I tackle questions students have posed for me, which has thus far included issues on blogging, lifecasting, privacy, as well as how-to tips on getting sponsors (always remember, readers come first!).
PlatinumGames and Hansoft - the Road to AgilityHansoft AB
Presentation at GDC 2015 by Creative Producer Jean Pierre Kellams at PlatinumGames and Senior Coach Jon Leslie at Hansoft. Read more: ow.ly/JwCWc
PlatinumGames and Hansoft - the Road to Agility
More and more teams are moving towards agile or hybrids of agile and traditional methods. Managing the transition can be a challenge and it is important to align your teams, use the right metrics and organize the work in a good way in order to get studio wide buy-in and a satisfying result. In this session, Jean Pierre Kellams, Creative Producer of Scalebound from Osaka, Japan-based developer PlatinumGames, creator of titles such as Bayonetta, and Jon Leslie from Hansoft will tell you how the team at PlatinumGames made the switch. They will take you through the process, starting with the strengths and weaknesses that brought about the change, the actual transition, and the successes and failures that led to the realization that what seems ideal isn't always the case.
User Story Cycle Time - An Universal Agile Maturity MeasurementEthan Huang
Trying to define a comprehensive CMMI like Agile Maturity Model?
If you're running all Scrum meetings but cannot deliver every sprint, you're not agile at all, if you don't follow any Scrum format but you're delivering small features every couple of weeks you're still Agile - deliver the highest value in the shortest time.
User Story Cycle Time - one universal Agile maturity measurement you might be able to use in your Organization cross different teams.
Portfolio Kanban - Seeing the Big Picture Sandy Mamoli
Doing too many things at once can slow an entire organisation down. As every successful organisation will have more great ideas than they have capacity to build, it is tempting to start too many of them at the same time. However, too many projects in progress will slow down delivery of each and every one of them.
So, how can we make sure we work to our organisational capacity and don’t try to do too much? How do we make sure we’re working on the important and not just the urgent stuff? This is where Portfolio Kanban can help: In this session we will explore how Portfolio Kanban can help an organisation prioritise, plan and visually track its projects.
Through the example of Trade Me, New Zealand's biggest e-commerce site, I will demonstrate the practical application of Portfolio Kanban. I will explore how Trade Me have benefitted from the increased visibility and reduced work in progress, and how they are using Portfolio Kanban to direct the organisation’s Agile teams. Come along and enjoy tales of our successes, challenges and struggles on our (still continuing) journey towards awesome portfolio management.
5S is a workplace organizational process that improves productivity and quality. It is a fundamental process that is necessary to drive continuous improvement in all sizes of businesses.
This course will cover 5S Basics for the physical workplace (workstations, meeting rooms & other common areas) then move into utilizing 5S in the digital workspace.
The digital workplace is loaded with all types of information clutter (waste). We will show you how to utilize 5S so your team can help identify and eliminate these types of waste.
Additionally, 5S is most powerful when the entire organization is trained and engaged in the process. We will look at methods of achieving this.
Udemy Coupon Link
https://www.udemy.com/lean-office-5s/?couponCode=LEANOFFICE5S_SPECIAL
LKCE18 Jesper Boeg - Your improvement potential is much bigger than you think...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Many people in Agile and IT talk about Toyota Kata, but it seems very few have tried it out for real at any scale or duration and actual cases are far between. In this presentation I will share my last 4 years of experience with Toyota Kata and especially the job of scaling it across all layers of a 700 people IT organization. How does it translate to a context where the flow of value is counted in days and not seconds? Where did we fail, what adaptions were made, what results did we achieve and why is it both more powerful and more difficult than any of us believed?
A small presentation by Ashley-Christian Hardy on the basics of Scrum methodology, covering the basics of roles & responsibilities, events & ceremonies and scrum artefacts.
Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do itLviv Startup Club
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Євген Лабунський: Agile in Enterprise. How do we do it
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Іванна Заєць: Основи ПМа (PM’s Essentials)
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Emptying Your Cup an Agile Primer
Emptying Your Cup an Agile Primer is a introductory overview of Agile project management presented by Bruce Nix an experience Agile coach and project manager.
Presenter Bruce Nix is an Agile Coach and Sr. Project Manager with Lokion (www.lokion.com), a digital interactive agency that specializes in ecommerce, enterprise governance and digital strategy. Bruce has been actively engaged in agile adoptions for over 7 years and has worked diligently at influencing enterprises to take more lean and agile approaches to product delivery and has the scars and psychology bills to prove it.
Christian Titze, "Hello From the Other Side: Adapting the Agile Agency to Cli...WebVisions
Many agencies have become frustrated with over-specced sequential waterfall projects. Their inflexible methodologies have too often led to outcomes that didn’t realize their full potential. In contrast, agile methods like Scrum and Kanban have proven successful ways to build and run software. But how do you apply agile methods to the reality of an agency’s project based work? There are many challenges and the most crucial question is: what if our ideal work method and our clients’ realities don’t match?
Edenspiekermann have been working agile since 2009. They’ve since achieved terrific results and have never looked back. They now employ about as many developers as designers, creating meaningful digital products and services for global clients like Red Bull, Cisco Systems, The Economist and the German and Dutch Railways.
Christian will talk about the often challenging contrast between wanting to deliver the best possible product and making sure you’re satisfying the client’s internal project needs. How to deliver excellent customer satisfaction while working as agile as possible?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christian is the guy designers are ambivalent about. He’s not a font guy. He’s the business guy—the one who works the odd hours creating and maintaining relationships with some of the largest companies in the world. Over the past decade, he has led business development efforts for numerous agencies on three continents.
If "blogging" is the dirty word, then I am scum.Kevin Lim
I was guest speaker for the New Media Class (DMS155) at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). In this presentation, I tackle questions students have posed for me, which has thus far included issues on blogging, lifecasting, privacy, as well as how-to tips on getting sponsors (always remember, readers come first!).
Agile Agency Scrum: An Introduction to Flexible Project Management for Produc...Tim Hamilton
Scrum works because the product owner gets to drive. Discover the process of successful agile scrum for agencies, from methodology and project management, to timeline and budget.
Agile is actually an approach and a Mindset, whereas most people misunderstand it as a set of practices. There are umpteen examples of people implementing the Agile practices and artefacts, but are failing to get the intended positive results. This is a classic problem of ‘doing Agile’ as opposed to aiming to ‘be Agile’. The key to getting the optimal benefits is having the Agile Mindset.
Mindset is abstract and hence one needs to understand it based on what is visible in behaviours, policies etc. The talk is about not only what these visible characteristics are, but also about what can be some of the enablers to move towards achieving the Agile Mindset. It has been proven that Leadership of an organization plays a key role in enabling the right Mindset, and hence this talk is meant for Leaders.
Video link:
https://vimeo.com/album/3674400/video/147609195
Agile is both a set of practices and a mindset. Success lies in understanding both “Doing Agile” as well as “Being Agile”. In this hands-on session, 5 key practices to support an Agile Mindset will be demonstrated so that you have some practical tools use immediately at work. You will also be left with some deeper challenges about what it takes achieve Organizational Agility.
Agile Software Development Workshop at Sote HubSote ICT
Presentation on agile project management by Maros Korinek, developer at Funding Circle, from his 4-day training in December 2016 at Sote Hub in Voi, Kenya.
A presentation for Agile Arizona 2017. Where is your project on the agility continuum (scale), and what might you tweak to get a little more agility (even in a waterfall culture).
Session Abstract:
Agile framework is based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. It’s a set of values and principles that help teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and continuous feedback.
Scrum is the most popular methodology under the Agile umbrella. Scrum emphasizes empirical feedback, team self-management, and striving to build shippable product increments within short iterations.
Kanban is another popular flavor of Agile that focuses on visualizing and managing the flow of work, in order to balance demand with available capacity and remove bottlenecks.
Learning Objectives:
> Gain a broad understanding of the Agile framework
> Discover Scrum and Kanban, the two most widely used Agile methodologies, and see how they can be used in construction industry
> Find out how Scrum and Kanban can be combined to have the best of both worlds (Scrumban)
This talk is a 101-level introduction to Scrum, the agile methodology, especially in terms of how it works for web development. We'll cover the scrum values, rituals, and team. We'll also discuss some common pitfalls and how to work around them.
PMI-ACP Domain 1 Agile Principles and MindsetJoshua Render
Free training for the PMI-ACP Certification exam -
Learn and understand some basic agile concepts.
View training video here: https://agile-mercurial.com/video-library/pmi-acp-domain-1-agile-principles-and-mindset-training-video/
Blog: https://agile-mercurial.com
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For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
https://nidmindia.com/
2. • The Scrum Question:
How can we better deliver product to our customers?
• Scrum, an Agile software development process, has been in
use since the 1990s. It is what ThreeTwelve is adopting to
create the Agile Agency approach.
• Developed because long-term project planning
methodologies like Waterfall are inaccurate, and place
emphasis on top-down process
HISTORY
3. KEY AGILE PRINCIPLES
3
Collaborate more
with clients
4
Focus on delivering a
workable product instead
of documentation about
a product
1
Communication
with parties is more
important than SOPs
2
Be open to change
5. BETTER TOGETHER
• ThreeTwelve has thrived not just because of exceptional work,
but also because of exceptional relationships.
• Clients repeatedly call out ThreeTwelve’s collaborative nature
and the personal relationships they form with us.
It’s in our agency DNA to elevate
people over process
6. EVEN BETTER TOGETHER
• That said, ThreeTwelve is a business and we need efficiencies
and processes in order to operate and to be able to scale.
• Our clients are also businesses, and we should delight them
by safeguarding their interests and meeting their needs.
7. AGILE-Y-ER
• Agile pulls our clients into the process by making them
stakeholders in everything we do.
• Of course, any business’s clients are stakeholders – but in a
traditional agency/client model clients have much less input
into the process and there is much less transparency.
8. AGILE ROLES
Stakeholders -
Client team members
Cosmic Overlord –
ThreeTwelve member;
keeps process on course
Creative Team –
ThreeTwelve staff
Product Owner –
Main client POC
9. AGILE PROCESS:THESPRINT
• The Sprint is the core time unit of the Agile process.
At ThreeTwelve our Sprints are two weeks (10 business days)
• Short Sprints allow us to deliver products regularly and to
rapidly make iterative changes to improve our process
• All work that is taken into a Sprint should be completed in
that Sprint
10. TheSprint-Tasks
• Work to be done in a Sprint is broken down into tasks
• Every task is assigned a point value that indicates its relative
difficulty to complete
• Points are NOT time-correlated. Possible points a task can be
assigned are 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 or 21. A one-point task is easy. A
21-point task is difficult and likely to take the whole Sprint.
11. TheSprint-TASKPOINTS
• The point system reflects that we as humans are relatively
accurate at predicting the time to accomplish easy tasks, but
wildly inaccurate at predicting larger, longer-term tasks
• Points allow us insight into what our true workload capacity is
• Better insight means better planning, and better ability to
complete workload.
12. THESPRINT-TASKS
• The ThreeTwelve team for a client has a maximum point
capacity that it can accomplish in any given Sprint
• The sum of points for tasks taken into a Sprint should equal
the team’s capacity
• Matching task points to team capacity ensures tasks brought
in to a Sprint are completed.
• Tasks can be in any of these discrete states: Backlog, Current,
Working, Done
14. TheSprintBOARD
• The Sprint Board is a visual representation of all the tasks
in a Sprint
• There is a column for each state a task can be in
• As a task changes state, it’s moved to the appropriate
column.
15. Lifecycle ofa Task -Backlog
• All tasks begin life in the Backlog, which is a running record
of work that needs to be done. The Backlog is the only state
that spans Sprints.
• At a planning meeting that happens before each Sprint,
clients identify tasks and prioritize them.
• ThreeTwelve decomposes tasks where necessary, and assigns
point value. Final prioritizing can be done after any task
decomposition.
16. Lifecycle ofa Task –Current
• During the planning
meeting, tasks are
moved from the Backlog
state to Current state
until the team’s point
capacity has been
reached
17. Lifecycle ofa Task -Working
• When a ThreeTwelve
team member is ready to
start working a task, they
will put their name on it
and move it from Current
Sprint to Working On
18. Lifecycle ofa Task –DONE
• When the task has been completed, it is moved from Working
to Done.
• If it’s a task that has been decomposed to also have a “Client
Review and Changes” task, that task is then moved into the
“Working” state
19. BUTWHAT ABOUT
• Client needs can change, even over the course of a single
Sprint.
• ThreeTwelve capacity typically will NOT change over the
course of a Sprint
• If new tasks arise that must be completed during a given
Sprint, the tasks are decomposed, given point values, and
brought in
• A matching point value of low-priority tasks is then moved
from the Current Sprint back to the Backlog.
20. FAQs
• Q. What if a task will take longer than one Sprint?
• A. It should be decomposed into a set of smaller tasks, giving
everyone a better idea of what’s done and what remains to be
done
21. FAQs
• Q. Can we see the Sprint board?
• A. Yes. In the traditional Scrum environment, tasks are written
on yellow sticky notes and stuck onto a physical Sprint board
or wall. Stakeholders can come by at any time, look at all the
sticky notes, and be apprised of Sprint progress.
ThreeTwelve uses a web app called Teamworkand have structured that to resemble a Sprint
board pivoted into rows instead of columns. We will invite client team members to have access
to that board so that you can see at any time during a Sprint what we’ve done and what we’re
working on. We’re also working on our own Agile Agency software purpose-built to meet the
needs of our agency and our clients.