BA Stands for Being Agile

BA Stands for “Being Agile”

Craig SmithSuncorp

Welcome

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“B” is for

back

to

basics

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“A” is for

agile

Umbrella

term

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16/12/2010Agile Manifesto

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16/12/2010Agile Pyramid

Practices

Principles

Values

Approach

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Agile

Values

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16/12/2010Trust

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16/12/2010Innovative Accountability

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16/12/2010Courage

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16/12/2010Honesty

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16/12/2010It’s All About Culture

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Agile

Principles

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Value

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Collaboration

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Speed

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Flexibility

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Simplicity

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Teamwork

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Agile

Practices

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XP

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Scrum

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Agile

Approach

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Concept

5%

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Initiate

10%

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80%

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5%

Happy Days!

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Speed to cool...

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The Agile Team

Technical Divide

Analyst skills are important!

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Get from

this...

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To this...

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Just not this...

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Core Team

Extended Team

Project Manager

SupportAnalystOther key

stakeholders

BusinesOwner

Consultants

Iteration Manager

Teamlead

Team Member

Bus.SME

Team Specialist

Project Officer

Quality Assurance

CommsOfficer

ProgramManager

Project Sponsor

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Cross functional team

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Break it downImage:: http://www.lbc1.org/salvation/split.gif

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Story cards

With acceptance criteria

INVEST in your stories

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MoSCoW

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Estimation

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Daily standup

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Retrospective

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Co-location

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Adaptive planning

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Frequent small releases

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Continuous feedback

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Automation

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Visualise the flow

Wrap Up

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Have fun

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Opportunity is knocking

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Questions ??

Craig Smith

http://www.suncorp.com.au

http://www.agileacademy.com.au

craig.smith@suncorp.com.au

@smithcdau

http://www.slideshare.net/smithcdau/

Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest diversified financial services providers,

supplying banking, insurance and wealth management products to around 9 million customers through

well-established and recognised brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency,

Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as Suncorp and GIO. Today, Suncorp is Australia's fifth

largest bank and second largest domestic general insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp

has representation in 450 offices, branches and agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand.

(http://www.suncorp.com.au)

The Agile Academy is the next wave in Agile learning and collaboration. Designed for IT professionals,

the Agile Academy is a knowledge hub that promotes Agile related learning, knowledge sharing and

capability development across the IT industry. We offer an integrated curriculum of leading edge

courses across the entire solution development life cycle, covering all roles at varying levels.

(http://www.agileacademy.com.au)