Large + successful + government + IT + Agile = Census Leon Maritz June 2014

I’m going to cover Census Scrum Basics Census in 3 Stages Summary of Agile Successes Census Successes Census Adoption

Census Overview Recruitment Training Distribution Online Collection Analysis Output

Census is large 6.4 million census forms to 1.8 million homes

Census is large About $72 million

Census is large 7,000 trained collectors

Census is large Large IT system

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Scrum Basics

IT Development in 3 Stages Earthquakes Stage 1 Apr 2009 to Sep 4, 2010 (Census 2011) Stage 2 Sep 4, 2010 to Feb 22, 2011 Stage 3 After Feb 22, 2011 (Census 2013)

Stage 1 Apr 2009 to 4 Sep 2010

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Daily Stand-ups

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Retrospective What went well What didn’t go that well Improvements Acknowledgements

What went well Training - Scrum master and Product Owner Agile Champion Backlog Review Quick feedback – thin slices Inspect and adapt

What didn’t go so well Estimation – software upgrade, Technical debt Over projection on Sprint Backlog Separate seating per role Release to UAT as definition of Done

What the business thought I like the approachability I like the more open communication I like the transparency

Stage 2 Sep 4, 2010 to Feb 22, 2011

Need Feb building pictures

What went well Co-location Definition of Done changing to In Production We learnt to estimate better

What didn’t go so well Multiple Product Owners Stories bigger than 13 Disruption due to Earthquake

What the business thought I like being at the stand-ups I like the fact that the messenger does not influence the priority of a story

Stage 3 After Feb 22, 2011

Need picture of Level 3

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Kanban – Visual Card Visualize the workflow Limit work in Progress Manage flow Make process policies explicit Improve collaboratively

What went well Evolution is ok Kanban Team Trust Working from home Government Cloud

What didn’t go so well User stories over 13

What the business thought I like fast track I like being able to propose a user story at any time

Summary of Agile Successes Transparency Collaboration Co-location Continuous improvement Multiple Product Owners Self organized teams

Remaining Opportunities Deployments Automate

Census Success Successful census - 5 march 2013 Streamlined recruitment Better training Government cloud Quickstats

Census Agile Adoption Census adopted Scrum for future census Doing daily stand-ups Census do Retrospectives Census involved in Agile community of practice

Large + successful + government + IT + Agile = Census We are happy to help

What do we mean by benchmarking? Investigate the two sets of Agile implementations How we differ and why? What should we take from the process? How can we share our experience?

Why the Government Similar challenges Same mandate - collaborate We work for the same client

Why is Agile a good place to start? Continuous improvement is built into Agile Suggests looking outward for improvements Promotes openness and courage Provides common ground to establish connections

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