1. Business Value from distributed testing ensuring
in an Agile environment

2. Pollyanna PIXTON Founder, Accelinnova President, Evolutionary Systems
Director, Institute of Collaborative Leadership
Pollyanna PIXTON

3. “Am I going to have the enough business value when my market window opens?”
- Any business leader

4. use Agile.

5. Why?

6. iterative delivery

7. market
ready increments

8. How do we
deliver
Business Value
using Agile?

9. bring all stakeholders together

10. identify all features

11. Prioritize

12. based on
business
value 12

13. What’s Business Value?

14. Costs
calculation
Value Calculation
Benefits

15. Business Value
Costs
calculation
Value Calculation
Benefits

16. Business Value
Estimate
calculation
Value Calculation
Guess

17. Trust
any
help?

18. Market Differentiating
High
Market
Differentiating
Low
Low
High
Mission Critical

19. High
Innovate
Market
Differentiating
Low
Low
High
Mission Critical

20. Innovate Parity Market Differentiating Mission Critical High Low Low

21. Innovate Parity Do we take this on? Market Differentiating
High
Do we take
this on?
Innovate
Market
Differentiating
Parity
Low
Low
High
Mission Critical

22. calculation
Value Calculation
Purpose
Business Value
Costs and Benefits

23. other
considerations ?

24. time to
market

25. risks

26. flexibility
Collaboration Model

27. external dependencies
team size and experience
market uncertainty
domain knowledge
team capacity
technical uncertainty
external dependencies

28. Considerations
Purpose
Business Value
Costs and Benefits

29. Considerations
Value Calculation
Purpose
Costs and Benefits

30. model
not a
number
Build Trust?

31. what do we do?

32. when do we do it?

33. Protect Team Boundaries
how do we decide?
Protect Team Boundaries

34. back to Agile …

35. feature list …

36. Considerations
Purpose
Business Value
Costs and Benefits

37. resolve differences

38. prioritize based on
business value

39. what to
add
to improve measurements ?

40. add what to
make better decisions ?
Transaction
Costs

41. my fear in
iterative
development?

43. what I want?

45. test first development

46. testers are the gatekeepers

47. test cases
built in same
order as development

48. Trustworthiness
everyone
needs
to know
the
value

50. include Business Value and Purpose
Purpose: Parity
Business Value 85

51. develop in parallel

52. Or …

53. developers wait for test cases
Protect Team Boundaries

54. one word of caution

55. Considerations
Value Calculation
Purpose
Costs and Benefits

56. at the end
of the iteration

57. did model inputs change?

58. adjust bv model
run features thru model
re- prioritize

59. now you can ask…

60. “Do I have enough business value to go to market?”
“Will I have enough business value when my market window opens?”

61. Summary
What makes
this work?

62. use a storyboard tool….

63. Pollyanna PIXTON accelinnova.com evolutionarysystems.net
Pollyanna PIXTON