Agile on the Beach BELINDA WALDOCK Agile Innovation Video - http://echo.falmouth.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/3ad236ff-d160-4cdc-9d00-4874d5117658

1. Taking agile mainstream..

2. Belinda Waldock
Simon Gill
Business Coaching
Grow Cornwall Programme
Taking agile mainstream
@belindawaldock @drsgill
b.waldock@oxin.co.uk s.gill@oxin.co.uk
#agileOTB

3. Enable Cornish
Software
businesses to
adopt agile to
enable business
growth and job
creation
(+ demand side)
Enable the
methods of
agile and lean
start up to be
used within
start up
businesses
Enable the
philosophy of
agile and lean
to be used
within all
businesses as
good practice

4. Agile practice has helped you to be more flexible and responsive to customer needs
Agile has helped to improve communications
Agile has helped to improve workflow
Agile has made you more efficient
Agile has helped to develop skills within your business
Quality of product/service has improved by adopting Agile practice
Agile has improved project management, such as prioritising
Agile has helped to improve our business focus
Agile has contributed to change management
Agile practice has contributed towards improved customer relations
Agile has reduced time to market
Agile has enabled your business to grow
You now work more effectively in collaboration or through distributed teams from…
Agile has improved new business/tender success rates

5. Innovative Idea
into Proposition
Repeatable &
Scalable
Business Model
Quickly and
Effectively
Proof of
Concept &
Market
Enable the methods of agile and
lean start up to be used within
start up businesses

6. Introduce Lean Start up to existing
agile tech businesses with new
services/product ideas

8. Introduce Lean Start up to a
non tech business

10. we had learnt that the planning element was a
high value element of the process that could be
adapted into a coaching tool for start ups..

11. Start up Planner MVP :
Explored varieties with existing start up businesses
Tested on coaching team, partner event

12. “it’s the first tool of the many
I have been introduced to that I’ve actually
used and found useful!” Sophie

13. Ignite Cornwall
experience workshops
Introduced Do-Review-Learn
Identify assumptions
Test & measure
Coaching Role-play using planner
Individual Exercise using planner
Tips

15. What is your vision?
What are you
doing already?
What else do you
need to do?
What assumptions
do you need to test?
What’s the value of these activities?
What are you going to learn?
How are you going to measure them?

16. Challenge!!
How could you test your
proposition in the next
2 weeks with £200?

17. Ignite Experience
Start Up Planner Workshops
68 people trained in Planner Use
Mix of product/service ideas
Average 9/10
(27@10/10, 18@9/10, 13@8/10,
7@7/10 and 3@6/10)

18. I know I'll use the Planner, so I felt "connected" to it
Very helpful indeed and we will implement this and review during our board meeting weekly
The chart makes one think & start "doing" more
I will definitely use this tool!
Role Play make it simple to follow and convertible for my business idea
..can see that it would be a really useful method to continue
I will use that planner!
Excellent way for planning and realising tasks and a great way to prioritise.
Very very useful..excellent for focusing and moving forward
A brilliant practical session - a simple, bite sized way to manage progressing the idea
Love the planner concept

19. Taking agile mainstream..
What do you think?
@belindawaldock @drsgill
b.waldock@oxin.co.uk s.gill@oxin.co.uk
www.growcornwall.co.uk