The Evolution of Agile at Statistics New Zealand How our Agile evolution can be shared across Government agencies. Presenters: Chanelle Becker & Joanne McGee October 2013
May 08, 2015
The Evolution of Agile at Statistics
New Zealand
How our Agile evolution can be shared across Government agencies.
Presenters: Chanelle Becker & Joanne McGee
October 2013
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Introductions
Statistics 2020 Te Kāpehu Whetū
“How we're creating the Statistical System of the Future”
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Agile Maturity Journey
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Agile Pilot
in Census
2011.
20082008Use of
Scrum in
other
projects.
Positive
feedback
from teams
20092009
Agile spread
to other
teams in and
outside of
IT.
20102010Agile
accepted
within IT.
Formal training
plans
implemented.
20112011 Evolution into
Kanban and
other
variations.
Agile becomes
more
embedded.
20122012
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In the beginning………
5 Thanks Citi bank
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Early 2008: from bad to worse
WHAT did we need to do to change?
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The Stats:
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Feedback
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"The IT Team and
the Business Area worked as a team"
"A real sense of
engagement with the IT
team"
“Split locations a challenge”
"It's important to understand the whole culture"
"Next time I would try to get more involved in daily stand-
ups"
"The team have a great satisfaction
and sense of ownership"
"The Agile framework is "well set up to deal with
changes"
"Constantly having to
prioritise"... "have to make the hard calls"
"You never lose sight of
the end goal"
"What surprised me was the team
camaraderie".. "the team
bond better"
"OK, maybe we didn't get all the
bells and whistles, but..." "they were just nice to haves".
Feedback on our Process
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Communication up 87%
Delivering up 87%
Risk reduction up 87%
Team fun up 86%
High Level Statistics NZ Agile SDLC
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Each of the yellow boxes are shown in greater detail:
• giving the roles (who does what),
• order of execution (when to do it) and
• outcomes (what will be produced).
Agile Software Development Life Cycle
(IT Development Process)
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Concept
2
Initiate
3
Sprint Zero
4
Agile
Development
(Sprint 1-n)
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Project Go
Live
6
Project
Closure
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Support
Last step of Business Planning
Process
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Stats NZ E2E Enterprise Architecture
Blueprint
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Business Interviews 2010/11
Key Programmes /
Projects
1. BEST
2. SDDM
3. Redesign of the
Accommodation
Survey
4. Business Toolbox
5. Selective Editing
6. Implementation of
ANZSIC06
7. 2011 Census
Development
8. Info Share Project
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@ Stats Today
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• Agile is our primary method for delivery - used for 80% of our Programmes / projects
• Delivered all our IT projects
• Agile is being adopted by our business units
• Able to deliver to our strategic values
• Modernise the way we deliver “stuff”
Census of Populations
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Fun!!!
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Creative !!
What we’re doing now …
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Undertaking a maturity
assessment
Roadmap to take Stats NZ
to the next level
• Introduce Agile Coaching
• Continue to educate our organisation
• Focus on AOG opportunities
Our Agile Journey – where to next ??
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Agile Pilot
in Census
2011.
20082008Use of
Scrum in
other
projects.
Positive
feedback
from teams
20092009
Agile spread
to other
teams in and
outside of
IT.
20102010Agile
accepted
within IT.
Formal training
plans
implemented.
20112011 Evolution into
Kanban and
other
variations.
Agile becomes
more
embedded.
20122012
Start to share
Agile
externally
within
the wider
Government
sector
20132013
Long Term Vision
The Concept
Why the Government?
• Similar challenges
• Same mandate – collaborate
• We work for the same client
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