Presentation to OU Agile special interest group 25 January 2017. Agile basics, Agile myths, and stories of breakthroughs and breakdowns in Agile adoption in learning design and course production.

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Wednesday 25 January

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Matthew Moran
Programme Director (Minerva)
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Vision

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Project environment

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Business change

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More than Agile adoption
‘ … transforming an organization’s form or
nature gradually to one that is able to
embrace and thrive in a flexible, collaborative,
self-organizing, fast changing
environment. Agile transformation is being,
becoming or changing character or condition
to one of agility …’

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Agile myths
Myth
Agile is not a methodology

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Defining Agile
‘Agile is an idea supported by a set
of values and beliefs. In other
words, Agile defines a target
culture for success’
Michael Sahota (2012)

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Defining Agile
‘Agile is not a process.
It is a fundamental change in the
way we think’
Tobias Mayer (2014)

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Defining Agile
‘Agile is a framework or frame of mind.
A practitioner of Agile can use different
methodologies within the framework
to do or be Agile’
Peter Saddington (2010)

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Agile myths
‘Adoption is doing agile.
Transformation is being agile’
Mike Cottmeyer (2011)

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Leffingwell,D.(2012),ScaledAgileFramework
Business benefits of Agile adoption

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StandishGroup(2012),CHAOSManifesto
Project benefits of Agile adoption

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
Not knowing why.
What’s the performance improvement
goal, what’s the KPI we want to shift?
Does everyone understand?

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
Agile requires understanding and
change in behaviours and
expectations from leadership
(facilitative not directive)

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
People working to their job
description and not expanding into
their team role

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
Requires discipline and application
from all team members (no
exceptions for seniority or style)

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
Don’t fixate on doing Agile
perfectly – start small

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
Small successes go unnoticed or
create disruption in the business

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Agile lessons
Breakdowns
What works for one team does not
transfer or scale to the business

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Agile lessons
Breakthroughs
Happy teams: enables trust,
transparency, collaboration,
shared purpose, challenge and
conflict resolution in teams

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Agile lessons
Breakthroughs
Empowered self-directed teams
are able to own the solution and
creatively solve

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Agile lessons
Breakthroughs
Happy people through purpose,
focus on quality and user, personal
learning and growth, motivation
and fulfilment

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Agile lessons
Breakthroughs
High degree of input from sponsor
and engagement from
stakeholders to define
requirements

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Agile lessons
Breakthroughs
Continuous planning means more
successful project delivery to
scope, expectations met, no
surprises, less risk

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Agile is a silver bullet
Agile means no planning and documentation
Agile does not scale
Agile is cheaper
Agile gives instant benefits
Agile is only for software development
Agile is only for star teams
Agile does not fit our culture
Agile requires co-location
Agile means no quality
Agile is just a fad
Agile and waterfall don’t mix
There are better ideas than Agile
Agile means we have to work harder with fewer resources
Agile means we make it up as we go along

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34. Support student success through timely
delivery and continuous enhancement of
learning
Welcome changing requirements, even in
late development, for students’ benefit
Deliver quality learning products
frequently, in weeks to months (preferably
the shorter)
Continuous cooperation between
members of multi-functional development
teams
Build projects around motivated people
empowered and trusted to do the job
Face-to-face conversation is the best form
of communication.
Finished, quality learning products and
experiences are the primary measure of
project progress
Promote sustainable and healthy working
– everyone should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely
Continuous attention to good design and
teaching excellence and to enhance agility
Maximise the amount of work that does
not need to be done (keep it simple)
The best approaches, requirements and
designs emerge from self-organising
teams
The team regularly reflects on how to
become more effective, and adjusts
accordingly
StudentsatisfactionTeamwork
QualityProjects
Agileprinciples We value
• Student success over process and documentation
• Collaborative teams over separate functions
• Speed and flexibility over following a plan

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Group work session
Frame some questions
• How might I …
• How might we …