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Doing what the customer wants, when they want it

Getting Agile

Rob HaleUniversity of New England, Armidale

AAIR Data Warehousing SIG Forum

27th August 2009

1Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Exercise: Build a Lego Car for a Customer

Team Waterfall Team Agile

•Scope•Requirements Doc•Delivery Schedule•Resource Allocation•Budget

•Sprint Planning

•Development•Development

Construct a car using the provided Lego resources. A prioritised feature list is provided


Problem

Universities are operating in a competitive environment. The insight from BI/DW capability is vital to inform strategy and guide the enterprise

As BI professionals we are under pressure to give our customers what they want and to do this fast


Complexity

Pressure to DeliverDesire to Deliver

Organisational CultureIT Development Tradition

Budget Process

Requirements AnalysisDocumentationResource PlanningDelivery ScheduleApproval to Start


People change their minds, businesses change direction, markets

move, requirements aren’t fixed Re-DesignRe-Document

Re-PlanRe-ScheduleRe-Budget

Re-Communicate(Re-Peatedly)

BI projects are notoriously difficult to plan because clients rarely know what is possible until they see it


Project Update


Business runs on commitments

Do you:

Go ahead and build what

you think they need?

Someone committed us to deliver So far we haven’t Pressure mounts


Business runs on commitments

Do you:

Is there a better way?or

Go ahead and build what

you think they need?

Someone committed us to deliver So far we haven’t Pressure mounts


Explained by the Customer

Understood by the Manager

Designed by the Architect

Written by the Developer

What the Customer Wanted

Why is this stuff

still funny?

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Know what you don’t know

Ask, do, ask some more

Try new things

Apply Understanding

Do things the ‘right way’

Approach based on experience

Rigid

Proven

Limited

Confident

Best Practice

Collaborative

Innovative

Learning

Flexible

Open


Complication:

Resolution:

Example:

Prototyping with customer

proto-typenouna full-scale, operational model, used for demonstration or testing, that incorporates a new design or features

Compressed TimelineClient Involvement High MomentumHigh EnergyEconomicalMotivating


Project Update


Original Requirement

Revision 1

Revision 2

What is really needed

Team Waterfall

Team Agile


At the heart of every large projectthere is a small project trying to get out

We are going to try something called agile development.

Scrum


Leadership Culture ShiftBusiness Value DeliveryExposed DysfunctionTeam Commitment Team ResponsibilitySelf-ManagementProduct BacklogSprint BacklogRetrospectiveDaily ScrumMotivationTimebox

We are going to try something called agile development.

Scrum is...


Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog

Drag Stories between Backlog and Sprint

Status of Story

Backlog

Current Sprint

Committed Story Points


Sprint Taskboard

Tasks within each StoryTo Do WIP Solved Done

Developers Drag Stories Across


Impediment

Went Wrong Here

The Sprint Burndown Chart and the See-Through Toaster

We can’t fix the problems we can’t see

Smooth Sprint

2-week duration


Planning Poker

Fibonacci-ish Sequence

0 1/2 1 2 3

5 8 13 4020

100 ? ∞

Team EstimatesTeam Commits


Watch out for Muscle Memory

Scrum is about teams

Do not change Scrum


Agile Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org

Play Planning Poker Online - www.planningpoker.com

Mountain Goat Software - www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

Rob’s Higher Education BI Blog - http://blog.une.edu.au/robbi


http://agilemanifesto.org

http://agilemanifesto.org

http://www.planningpoker.com

http://www.planningpoker.com

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

http://blog.une.edu.au/robbi

http://blog.une.edu.au/robbi

What next?

“...adopting Scrum in an enterprise is like looking into the abyss, girding

oneself for an epic journey and then making the plunge.

...it is taking a hard look in the mirror every day, every month and doing

something about what one sees.

Ken Schwaber 2007

The goal is for you and everyone in your enterprise to wake up looking

forward to coming to work, and for your competitors to wish they had

never woken up.”


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