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Rebecca JensenMRED CEO
MRED Update and Agile Business Management Strategy
June 24, 2015
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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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