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

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

4. Census Overview Recruitment Training Distribution Online Collection Analysis Output

5. Census is large 6.4 million census forms to 1.8 million homes

6. Census is large About $72 million

7. Census is large 7,000 trained collectors

8. Census is large Large IT system

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10. Scrum Basics

11. 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)

12. Stage 1 Apr 2009 to 4 Sep 2010

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14. Daily Stand-ups

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

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

19. 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

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

21. Stage 2 Sep 4, 2010 to Feb 22, 2011

22. Need Feb building pictures

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

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

25. 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

26. Stage 3 After Feb 22, 2011

27. Need picture of Level 3

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

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

32. What didn’t go so well User stories over 13

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

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

35. Remaining Opportunities Deployments Automate

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

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

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

40. 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?

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

42. 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

43. 43 Long Term Vision

44. Q & A