agile for your accounting practice - december 2015

AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICEpresented by

Nicholas Muldoon

@njmnick@arijea.com

NICHOLAS MULDOON➤ Atlassian, 2007 - 2012➤ Product Manager, JIRA Agile

➤ Twitter, 2013 - Aug 2015➤ Coaching Directors and VPs➤ Agile Industry Consortium

➤ Arijea, October 2015 -➤ Founder➤ Advisory and expertise for

Atlassian Enterprise customers

“What does this guy know about accounting practices…?”

-all of you

I am a customer.

I am a customer.

Accounting is dead, long live accounting!

I am a customer.

Accounting is dead, long live accounting!

Customers are mobile. They want real time.

“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.”

-William Gibson

AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICE

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/umbrella

Scrum

KanbanXPLean DevOps

LeSSSAFe

DAD

KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum

Predictive Adaptive

KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum

Predictive Adaptive Reactive

agilemethods

KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum

Predictive Adaptive Reactive

KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum

Predictive Adaptive Reactive

KANBANDescendant of Toyota Production System and Lean Principles

The team is client focused.

The team delivers quality, minimising waste.

The team delivers iteratively to maximise learning.

The team constantly improves their process.

definition of doneconfirm with the team and client what it means to

complete a piece of work

Tax Return

• reviewed by a peer• reviewed by client• submitted to ATO• Notice of Assessment received• client paid or reimbursed by

ATO• etc

visualiseidentify the activities the team goes through to

deliver value to, or for, the client

Future Today DoneDoing

limitslimits helps work flow across the board

ensuring we deliver value to our client asap

< 4 < 4

Future Today DoneDoing

< 4 < 4

pullpull work as you have capacity

don’t push work onto the team as it slows them down

Future Today DoneDoing

WASTEDelays, mistakes…

MINIMISE CONTEXT

SWITCHINGHelp the team focus

kanbanvisualise work, limit work in process, pull work as

you have capacity, and minimise waste

< 4 < 4

Future Today DoneDoing

agility

never perfectexperiment

learnrepeat

AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICEpresented by

Nicholas Muldoon

@njmnick@arijea.com