1. Agile Project Methodology approaches to improve eportfolio design
Patrick Lynch Persefoni Stylianoudaki @thebigparticle @stylianoudaki

2. Presenters
Persefoni Stylianoudaki and Patrick Lynch introduced themselves and talked about their own journeys of using ePortfolios and in particular Pebblepad 2

3. Hull
Last accessed from Clipartbest (August 2016):
The PebblePad journey at the University of Hull started with the implementation of Pebblepad classic but it was not as successful as V3 due to a number of reasons such as:
Lack of specialist support for staff and students
Evaluation reports showed lack of appreciation by students
Areas of implementation were limited and were lacking important structured introduction
The need for a much more structured approach was identified 3

4. Hull
Last accessed from Clipartbest (August 2016):
Patrick took over PebblePad directly 3 years ago and started implementing a more structured approach throughout the University
His approach emerged organically into what we now describe an agile methodology
And we would claim it works and people are much happier with PebblePad
We measure our success here through the success of others’ implementations 4

5. Agile?
First large workbook was for Operating Department Practice. Much of this approach can be attributed to that team as much as our own design
Stakeholders were identified as very important to success, mentors remote to the University caused great concern. Buy-in was needed to make the new ODP ePortfolio work
Initial demonstration of an incomplete state, but sufficient to generate discussion and feedback
Agile became a recognised aspect of our approach. We became more forceful in engaging in this way, demanding stakeholder participation
Creation of University of Hull’s user group to facilitate support and discussion 5

6. Agile terminology and roles6

7. eportfolio development @Hull
Agile project development
Hull eportfolio development
Agile cycle
Curriculum development cycle
Development team
TEL team responsible for developing the resources and course team responsible for the delivery and assessment
Scrum Master
A member of the TEL team responsible for facilitating the project
Scrum
Team meetings
Sprint + Sprint planning meetings
The time between meetings of the team. This varies depending on the availability of the members
Product Owner
Programme leader
Users
Teaching staff, administrative staff, students, mentors/other assessors, external agencies etc.
User stories
The needs of each type of user: students, teaching staff, mentors, assessors, externals etc.
Acceptance criteria
Course criteria, professional requirements, mentor and student criteria 7

8. Project pattern @Hull? 17 steps in the paper
Essentially contract, meet (scrum), agree next steps, develop (sprint), demonstrate, next steps …
Always engaging as many (all) stakeholders in the process
Go live
Never finish refining 8

9. Example project
Community Nursing example based on Agile methodology 9

10. Benefits Increases quality of final product
Improves understanding amongst TEL and the delivery team
Involves students as ‘partners’
Collaboratively working of all teams
Better use of PebblePad options
Holistic approach
Faster time to market with a working solution
Happy people 10

11. Future ready? We, and our clients, don’t know what the future will be
Agile allows us to react as it unfolds
Agile allows us to take advantage of glimpses of the future that make themselves visible before we lose sight of them
Not only this, but agile goes someway to allowing us to try different potential futures and select the one we like. 11

12. Take aways During production
Find a ‘buddy’ to discuss your thoughts together or to be mentored by and locate friendly faces/peers who are willing to experiment
Collate user stories and/or share existing experiences and knowledge with stakeholders
Ask the ‘right’ questions so that you could agree a finalised version of the acceptance criteria with the Product Owner
Set up clear ‘sprints’ before starting building the prototype
Demonstrate early prototype and adjust requirements if required 12

13. Take aways During presentation
Offer continuous support to staff and students
Involve students as partners – hence adjustment during presentation are encouraged rather than frowned upon 13

14. Any questions?