webinar: "agile development"
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Join Bob Mosher and Conrad Gottfredson as they discuss Agile development in this month's webinar! Software development is shifting to Agile development practices due to the speed of change within organizations, and therefore creating the demand for such shifts. These same compelling reasons are pushing learning groups to challenge their current methodologies and become more adaptive. This can’t be accomplished without a Performance Support strategy, methodology, and technology. Our charge is not only to keep up with Agile software development, but to keep up with the adaptive performance requirements of organizations to be “Agile": to grow, change, and innovate at or above the speed of their markets – in other words, the need to: “learn at the speed of change.”TRANSCRIPT
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Agile DevelopmentBob Mosher
Chief Learning Evangelist
Conrad GottfredsonChief Learning Strategist
Doug Johnson Director of Product Development
#PerformanceSupport
[email protected]@Ontuitive.com
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What is Agile, REALLY?
Where we are now
Pre-webinar poll results
Live polls
How to be agile
Today’s agenda
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Doug JohnsonDirector of Software
25 Years in Software Development
• Big Companies (Microsoft) to
Startups
• Onshore – Offshore (India, China,
Poland, UK)
• Internal LOB Apps to Commercial
Products (Windows 2000, SQL
2005, Yaptap, now Ontuitive!)
• Certified Scrum Master
• 6 Kids and counting
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Agile grew from fallacies observed by software project managers from FAILED software projects:
• Belief that ALL requirements can be known right now for a system to be developed over months or years.
• Belief that employees can write down requirements in a way that software developers can understand.
• Belief that employees have the best idea on how to meet their business needs.
• Belief that reactive IT could address changing needs at the Speed of Business
What is Agile, REALLY?
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Agile is a set of tradeoffs, having a preference for:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
Agile is a philosophy with many methodologies:• Scrum• Extreme Programming (XP)• Kanban• TDD / DDD / FDD
Then, what is Agile exactly…
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What is Agile NOT?
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Agile Development in a nutshell
1. 1 List of requirements – written as User Stories (Product
Backlog)
2. Team (Devs, QA, Designer) estimates at a high-level (with
Story Points)
3. Product Owner Prioritizes from 1..N
4. PO negotiates 2 weeks worth of work with team
5. Team delivers functioning software in those 2 weeks
6. Repeat 4 and 5 until PO wants to Release
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What happens with only Agile Developers
Requirements andPriorities
Shippable Product –EVERY 2 WEEKS!
When are we shipping again?
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What does an Agile Company look like?
Requirements andPriorities
Shippable Product –EVERY 2 WEEKS!
Release Scrum
Ship It Repeat
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What is Agile, REALLY?
Where we are now
Pre-webinar poll results
Live polls
Today’s agenda
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Live poll
Q: How experienced is your organization in meeting the learning and performance
support demands of agile software development?
• We have NO experience at all
• We have a LITTLE experience
• We have a GOOD AMOUNT of experience
• We have a GREAT AMOUNT of experience
• We are HIGHLY experienced
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How experienced is your organization in meeting the learning and performance support demands of agile software development?
Pre-webinar poll results
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What is Agile, REALLY?
Where we are now
Pre-webinar poll results
Live polls
How to be agile
Today’s agenda
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The PS SpectrumAgile is the “Silver lining” and “Tipping Point we’ve been looking for!!
ScatteredInformation Support
TargetedInformation Support
TargetedPerformance Support
SmartPerformance Support
AutomatedPerformance Support
1. Low 3. Tangible 5. Transformational2. Marginal 4. Significant
• Shallow
• Haphazard access
• Flat
• Narrow
• Restricted access
• Limited
• Deep
• Rapid Access
• Task-Based
• Deep and Broad
• Smart Access
• Step-Based
• Deeper
• Automated
Access
• Step-Based
Embedded
Context
Just Enough
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Instructional Design— Keeping Up at the Speed of Change
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The AGILE process
Justify the need for NEW and MORE by
rating the impact of failure through
Critical Skills Analysis
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The AGILE process
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Develop working solutions iteratively and implement incrementally
• Iterate: to do something over repeatedly• Implement: to put into practical effect; carry out• Incrementally: The process of increasing through
addition or contribution.
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The AGILE process
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1. Establish an Iterative Development & Implementation Plan (with timeline)
2. If more than one iteration, build for Core for first iteration.
Prioritize core development as follows:
– Use the CSA prioritization for development of content and the assigning
of resources within the EPSS
– Develop Case-based Formal Instruction focusing on 5 through 7 rated
tasks and concepts©Conrad Gottfredson, 2013
The AGILE process
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Just Enough in the form needed to effectively perform inside the business process
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1. Establish an Iterative Development & Implementation Plan (with timeline)
2. If more than one iteration, build for Core for first iteration.
Prioritize core development as follows:
– Use the CSA prioritization for development of content and the assigning of resources within the EPSS
• Quick Steps for all, • Detailed Steps for 4 through 7 ratings, • About for 5 through 7 (using the concept template)• Existing reference resources assigned to all respective tasks, • Learn: Show Me and Try it developed for 5 through 7• New development of resources only for 5 through 7 ratings
– Develop Case-based Formal Instruction focusing on 5 through 7 rated tasks and concepts
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The AGILE process
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The AGILE process
1. Establish an Iterative Development & Implementation Plan (with timeline)
2. If more than one iteration, build for Core for first iteration.
• Prioritize development– Begin with the most stable – Negotiate to stability as needed
• Develop within structure
3. For each subsequent iteration:©Conrad Gottfredson, 2013
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Agile companies stay nimble by using approaches like Performance Support to minimize up front “big knowledge”
and maximize direction at the moment of need.
How to be agile
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2013 PS webinar series
September: Technology Needed to Author & Deliver PS
November: Competencies for L&D & performance
Save the DatePerformance Support Symposium: September 9th & 10thBoston, MA
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We need YOUR feedback!!PS Community Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MK28G98
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