The document discusses agile adoption and initiation. It defines agile and its benefits, including delivering business value, reducing risk, and continuous improvement. It provides tips for successful agile adoption such as ensuring proper change management, selecting the right initial project, and establishing frameworks and processes. The document also describes potential pitfalls and "smells" that could indicate adoption challenges. It recommends establishing objectives and estimating work during an agile inception to set the project up for success.

1. Agile Adoption and Initiation Inception and Preparation Setting up for success… or failure… Reginald de Silva & Jacinta Streat

2. Introduction Who are we and why are we here: Reg Jacinta What we will be covering What is Agile Agile adoption – Why would you and How to? Pitfalls, risks and smells The Agile Inception – Objectives and tools What’s next…

3. What is Agile? Agile is an umbrella term for several iterative and incremental software development methodologies including Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Kanbanand Lean. Agile is: Customer-centric, rigorous and disciplined. Involves working in small iterations with concurrent analysis, development and testing. Focuses on empowering people to collaborate and make decisions together quickly and effectively.

4. Agile Adoption – Benefits of Agile Deliver business value Highest value first Early ROI (MVP – Minimum viable product, MMFs – Minimum marketable features) Customer satisfaction Reduce Risk Continuous Improvement Inspect & Adapt PDCA – plan, do, check, act Diagram by Karn G. Bulsuk (http://blog.bulsuk.com)

5. Agile Adoption – Benefits of Agile http://www.versionone.com/Agile101/Agile_Benefits.asp

6. Agile Adoption – Success

7. Agile Adoption – Success Perceived Project Success Rates Note: Accurate to within +/-7% Figures don’t add to 100% due to use of “ranged options” Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

8. Agile Adoption Key Criteria Agile Coach Helps to establish approach Transfers knowledge and aims to make themself redundant Business buy-in Top down Bottom up Business commitment Is the owner Empowered to make immediate decisions when required Talent Right people in the right roles Right mindset Values and behaviours - Communication, Feedback, Courage, Simplicity, Respect Pilot Project benign way to adopt agile

9. How to Adopt Agile Ensure that proper change management is in place a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and the organisation from a current state to a desired future state Solicit buy-in and commitment at all levels Select the right project Run an inception Involve the right people Build the team Establish a Framework What a sprint/iteration looks like What other processes are used Produce a backlog Sprint/Iteration 0 Start building

10. Agile Smells Smells like success The team are engaged and confident The business partner is an advocate The first release is a minimum viable product Smells like failure The business partner is not accountable or empowered to make decisions Some team members are not on board Leadership is “command and control” rather than “servant leadership” The coaches and Agile leaders have never actually delivered an Agile project The project is not fun Agile adoption is being run by Project Managers

11. Business Partnership Business role: Is a member of the team Owns the project scope and delivery Is empowered to make decisions Manages the wider stakeholder group

12. Project Managers Traditional Project Managers do not belong in Agile projects. “Agile Project Management Responsibilities Most agile processes—and Scrum in particular—do not include a role called “project manager.” Without a specific person tasked with performing all managing duties, those responsibilities are distributed among the other roles on the project, namely the team, the ScrumMaster, and the Product Owner.” Mike Cohn http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/topics/agile-project-management

13. Project Managers cont… Agile is often perceived to threaten the very existence of Project Managers If you must have a traditional Project Manager then: Their role is to shield the team from external influences i.e. Manage upwards and across Get their buy-in– e.g. take steps to build their trust and confidence You may need to manage their expectations If your PMO does not support Agile then add that level of support or consider rebuilding your PMO

14. The Agile Inception Objectives: Set clear direction Set the project up for success Start work quickly

15. Define the Problem / Opportunity Where are we now? Where do we want to be?

16. Project Vision: Elevator Pitch For Australian based customers who require trans-Tasman payment solution the TBA is a Payments outsourcing solution that is flexible, secure & cost effective unlike ABC Bank File our product offers International Payments, NZ/AU functionality, RTC, UC & bulk cheque printing

17. Objectives

18. Trade off Sliders

19. Ropes and Fuels

20. Apple tablet User can see addresses, phone numbers IN Advertiser & User reporting User can add addresses User can save specific part of the captions Full Access to data via Search API New Products New Reporting channels Let users create lists User Testing Design and Usability testing Objectives measurement to be integrated across channels Accessibility Testing URL Redirect (device specific) Detailed customer profiling search result re-ordering (Relevance) Omniture Usage Stats Users should be able to search by Business Names Print. No changes to the way we print WP books Performance (same)/ not worse Change to data presentation content from external parties Better search experience Social Networking tools Syndicating Res data to non WP branded properties Team process improvements Data mining prevention Connect Business to users in new ways ‘Maverick’ factor; users generating new use cases Single search field on widget or other search types Access to all Bus & Gov data via search API Become more relevant to young users Better understanding of our data Less Ad banners Single search WPOL Protect the site from data mining User access blocking after misuse (API) Converting occasional users to frequent users Content Acquisition strategy initiative Content share to improve data quality & search! Using API for Location Better integration with digital only advertisers Maybe OUT

21. As Is/ To Be Process

22. Define Epics then Stories

23. Stories Epics Want to display banner advertising Want to display banner advertising based on the users previous search Want to display banner advertising targeting the users location Want to display banner advertising targeting the users location Want to be able to report on the performance of banner advertising Want a report showing performance by location

24. Prioritise Stories MoSCoW Must have Should have Could have Won’t/Wish to have

25. Estimation Examples: T-shirt sizes: Estimation for each Epic Large – 1 pair for a Release Medium – 1 Pair for 1 Iteration Small – 1 Pair for ½ Iteration Or Fibonacci sequence: Estimation for each Story Points, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc

26. Release Planning Release Plan at Epic Level then Story level Release Planning with Poker chips http://hillside.net/plop/2007/papers/PLoP2007_Yip.pdf

27. Retrospective

28. Iteration 0 Test the process Project Planning Release planning Iteration planning Prepare environments Prepare Iteration 1 stories

29. What’s next Start building http://assets.scrumfoundation.com/downloads/1/scrumprimer121.pdf?1294640838

30. Questions?

31. References http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ http://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/06/agilescrum-smells.html http://blog.bulsuk.com http://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Agile_and_iterative_1e.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_management http://hillside.net/plop/2007/papers/PLoP2007_Yip.pdf http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/agile-adoption-survey-2008 http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/1-agile-estimating-and-planninghttp://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/topics/agile-project-management http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/topics/planning-poker http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum http://www.scrumalliance.org http://www.versionone.com/Agile101/Agile_Benefits.asp http://wikieducator.org/images/f/f1/Fibonacci.png http://icons.mysitemyway.com/wp-content/gallery/matte-white-square-icons-people-things/125544-matte-white-square-icon-people-things-shirt1.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Aiga_elevator.svg/578px-Aiga_elevator.svg.png http://assets.scrumfoundation.com/downloads/1/scrumprimer121.pdf?1294640838 Contacts: Reg de Silva http://au.linkedin.com/in/regdesilva Jacinta Streathttp://au.linkedin.com/in/jacintastreat