Workshop 17 adam maddison and roslyn vaughan

GDSAdam Maddison and Ros Vaughan

Cabinet Office

Adam Maddison and Ros Vaughan

Agile and Open Policy Making


What is “Agile”?

Agile principles activity

Agile misconceptions

Agile within GDS

Open Policy and Agile activity

Assisted digital case study

Questions


What is this “Agile” (or “agile”)

thing?


The Manifesto for Agile

Software Development

http://agilemanifesto.org


Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

While there is value in the items on the right, we value

the items on the left more



The 12 agile principles



Agile is a culture, not a process


Some common

misconceptions of agile


Misconception:

Agile projects deliver sooner


Misconception:

There's no planning with agile


Misconception:

Agile is chaotic with little

discipline


@psd


What is the “official”

GDS agile?


“What do you want by Friday

and how can we do better than

we did last week?”*

*Mat Wall, Technical Architect at GDS


The unit of delivery is the team


The focus is quality


Get feedback as quickly as

possible


Break down the task


@psd


https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/start


Service Design Phases applied

to Open Policy Making?



Case study: Assisted Digital


Multi-disciplinary team


Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live



Open communications


Discipline


Questions

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Workshop 17 adam maddison and roslyn vaughan