1. Tim Hirner - Flagship Speakers January 23, 2014
Why Agile?
Tim Hirner - Flagship Speakers
January 23, 2014

2. Outline Introduction to Systems Waterfall vs. Agile
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Outline
Introduction to Systems
Waterfall vs. Agile
Agile Manifesto and Scrum Basics
Some Key Agile Points

3. November 11, 2018
Categories of Systems
Stress that solution “emerge”
“Knowledge worker” (software) projects are complex systems!

4. Traditional “Waterfall” Approach to Projects
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Traditional “Waterfall” Approach to Projects
Question: For a complex system how could this process ever work?!
Waterfall was developed to deal with simple and complicated, but not complex, problems
Some call this “plan driven” but that implies that agile has no planning which is completely false (in agile, you may actually plan more).
Stress the silo-ed nature of these “blocks”

5. Enter the Agile “Way of Working”
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Enter the Agile “Way of Working”
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals & interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”
Thus, it’s clear we need a better process for projects that deal with abstract concepts. We want to allow the solution to emerge. The above provides a philosophical framework that supports this.
This also means that traditional PM tools should be avoided!
Mention this and next slide cover the basics of all the agile processes, and are on your card that I handed out.

6. Lean Software Development
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Some Agile Methods
Extreme Programming (XP) Feature Driven Development (FDD) Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
Scrum
Crystal
Lean Software Development
Kanban

7. “Scrum” (Agile Method) Overview
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“Scrum” (Agile Method) Overview
Vision & Roadmap
Product Release
Retrospective
Iteration
Backlog
2 – 4 Weeks
Daily
Demonstrate Progress
Product
Increment
Release
Key question: If not Waterfall, what process might allow a solution to emerge? Enter Scrum…an agile “project management process” that works for complex systems
It is an iterative, incremental solution development system that focuses each time on what is most important to the business (i.e. revamp requirements continually as you go).
Learning is fed back, allowing “lessons learned” to be applied to the current project.

8. November 11, 2018
Some Key Agile Points
Agile philosophy is “let’s focus on what’s important, that is, those activities that better allow the solution to emerge quickly” and does away with politics, processes, tools, and behaviors that are not really important and are arguably wasteful.
Importantly…
Agile places importance on building the right product
Agile requires important decisions to be made by the people doing the work instead of dictates from above (the “how”)
Agile fosters a cooperative rather than antagonistic relationship between customers and solution providers
…and, Agile takes effort, but makes work fun!
Tie in each bullet with a component on the previous slide
Emphasis on people doing the work rather than managerial dictates is required if you accept that a solution must emerge