Evolution Towards Agile

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What is the Business Enterprise we are in ?

Technology

Customers

Software Products

Investors

Users

Engineering Company

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How do we connect these elements together ?

Process

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Our Industry is relatively young

1890

1980+

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Software processors are influenced by industrial age

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Engineering Process is the center

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Sequential Flow

Vision Reality

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Specialization /Division of Labors

1. Designers

2. Mechanics

3. Electricians

4. Supervisors

5. Polishers

6. Painters

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High Quality/ Perfection

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We successfully copied those concepts to our industry

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Engineering Process is the center

Engineering Process

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Sequential Flow

We Call it Waterfall

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Specialized Roles

Architects

Designers

Analysts

Programmers

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Big Upfront Perfection

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Why not

• Requirements not stable

• Technology is advancing

• Haven’t done it before

• Time to market unknown

• Feedback is too late

• Project visibility is poor

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1604/13/2023 Source: www.agilemanifesto.org

Is there a better way

Individuals and interactions over Process and Tools

Working software over Comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation

Responding to change over Following a plan

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Scrum

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Working Software

Working Software OVER Comprehensive Documentation

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Scrum – the flow

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Responding to Change

Responding to change OVER Following a plan

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Individuals and Interactions

What does the end user really want?

What are the business

rules?

How does this interact with

other systems?

What are the

validation rules?

What is thebest way to

share project roles?

Where we host the

development servers?

What is the best process to do testing?

We need more information on this!

Is there a better way of presenting data?

Individuals and Interactions OVER Processing and Tools

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Scrum – the roles

> NO PM> PO – What and When > Team - How, How much> SM –Problems, Protect, Process> Team has a SPOC

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Scrum Ceremonies

> Backlog grooming> Sprint Planning> Sprint Review> Sprint Retrospective> Daily Scrum

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Scrum Artifacts> Product Backlog> Sprint Backlog> Burn down Charts

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You can’t ignore !!!!!