Agile/Scrum what’s in a name… Meet your presenter Randy Schmidt, PMI-ACP|CMS | MCP Strategic “Results” Architect

Agenda

Overview for this presentation I hope to leave you with “Three main points” – AGILE: “It just works” – we’ll look at why “Scrum” leads agile methodologies by an overwhelming % - we’ll build a scrum team “Not just for software development anymore”… -any project can use the benefits of Agile -You decide on ANY takeaways

Why Bother – not just according to Schmirk Requirements based acquisition (especially) IT is “hard – broke” 6 out of 10 – dead on arrival, 4 remaining 2 are late or over budget, and 1 has ill-defined USER requirements = 10% for the last 30 years 2010 Pew showed only 15% of all IT projects succeed in not being over budget, time or both Standish’09/Sauer’07 determined that any project over ~$1million has only 25% chance of success (on-time, on-budget, meets original business need)

Session’s law of size

Small Iterative Deliveries Collaborative – End User (Product Owner) Developer and Tester 1 st set of features or components is as little as two weeks Continuous delivery of ‘shippable’ capabilities Not a single “requirement” in the mix - more like “desirements” after short term demos

SCRUM – KanBan - XP (Scrum Master bias) if AGILE is the “neighborhood”; eXtreme Programming(XP) KanBan and several other ‘cul-de-sacs’ vs the SCRUM ‘community club house and pool’… SCRUM – 10 simple items TOTAL! 3 roles, 4 [time-boxed] meetings, 3 artifacts Product Owner, the TEAM and the SCRUM Master Sprint planning[1hr], daily Scrum[15min], Retrospective[1hr], Backlog grooming [continuous] Conventional ‘thought leadership’ applies, stakeholders, project/program management provide the Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives through a re- chartering event following the 2/4 week “demo”

Summarize over-arching Agile notions A Chicken and a Pig wish to open a breakfast diner… “Committed” versus “involved” EPICS, Components, User Stories, Tasks to provide deliverable features & functionality - incrementally User Story examples: where the realm of the possible meets the practical (3x5 cards) AS : who I NEED TO : what capability SO THAT I CAN : when, where, metric parameters (on the back)I Know we are done: how, to what standards of measurement

Speed to Value AGILEOther Methodologies Pros+Cons- incremental and Early delivery non typical iterative contracts code/project (s) that work hard on the Product Owner features in weeks transparent w/daily burn less rework - just in time not a silver bullet ok to fail Pros+Cons- requirements based contracting Delivery all at once plenty of rigor & documents Delivery all at once non- transparent Features in months/yrs Rigid Designs less flexible 10-25% success

Next Steps – Call to action Let the Scrum Begin… Standing at or near the Info Radiator 15 minutes, Only the headlines, What did I do, what am I going to do, what’s in my way AGILE/CMMI/Waterfall/are more powerful when they co-exist Pioneers vs indigenous “Cowboys” and “Indians” Agile that scales – webinar at noon/next slide Help evangelize, so that contracts being written include notions & metrics of Agile

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