Rebecca Jensen MRED CEO 801-550-5149 [email protected] MRED Update and Agile Business Management Strategy June 24, 2015.

Rebecca JensenMRED CEO

[email protected]

MRED Update and Agile Business Management Strategy

June 24, 2015

MRED Update

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MRED Update

Imagine a day when

• You’ve done twice the work in half the time while increasing quality

• Your stakeholders attack problems instead of each other

• Your organization is aligned by your business values

• Happiness is a metric people are willing to track and improve upon

What Is Agile? A philosophy more than a process Not just for technology - applies to almost any

project

www.agilemanifesto.org

While there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

7 Fundamental Agile Practices

Continuous Stakeholder Involvement

Collaborate & Facilitate management/technical/business/+

Prioritize Sufficient Planning to Move

Forward Work in Iterations Test Reflect & Adapt

Individuals and interactions overprocesses and tools

Collaboration with stakeholders is key, do this throughout the entire process

Customer collaboration overcontract negotiation

• Identify business needs

• Focus on the problem

• Collaborate & facilitate discussion

• Agree on goals

Prioritize

• Begin with the end in mind

• Identify:– MUST– SHOULD– COULD– WILL WAIT

• Relentlessly work on the top priority

Working software overcomprehensive documentation

• Plan just enough to begin the project

• 2 to 6 weeks of work

• Test• Adapt plan as

necessary along the way

Work

• Focus on priorities• Daily standup

meeting:• What did you

accomplish yesterday?

• What are you doing today?

• Any issues?• Iteration deadline

NOT task deadline• Sprint!• No procrastination

Test• Test as frequently as possible• Involve stakeholders• Ask: Are we on the right track?

Responding to change over following a plan

Build a culture of continuous improvement by asking at the end of each cycle:• What went well?• What can be improved?• Did we meet our goals?• How should we adapt?

What is Expected of an Agile Leader/Manager?

Get Things Done

Innovative: feeling comfortable in fast-changing environments; being willing to take risks and to consider new and untested approaches.

Strategic: taking a long-range, broad approach to problem solving and decision making through objective analysis, thinking ahead, and planning.

Tactical: emphasizing the production of immediate results by focusing on short-range, hands-on, practical strategies

Work Through Others

Excitement: operating with a good deal of energy; intensity; and emotional expression; having a capacity for keeping others enthusiastic and involved

Empathy: demonstrating an active concern for people and their needs by forming close and supportive relationships with others

Consensual: valuing the ideas and opinions of others and collecting their input as part of your decision making process.

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Thank YOU!Rebecca Jensen

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