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Cultivating Collaboration Through Agile Work

Ellen GroveCollaborative Management Day

June 2011

Sorry – no ‘best’ practices!

‘best practice advice, when it comes to managing IT projects, actually reinforces this circle of project failure.’

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http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/23/

Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan

Agile work

Is a highly collaborative project delivery

method that has small functional releases

which are delivered frequently

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Better Products & Teams

Process

Capability

People

Vision

Teams

Product

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Iteration

24 hours

ReleaseBacklog

IterationBacklog

Daily Standup

Feedback from clients/users

Potentially shippableproduct

increment

Vision & Goals

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http://www.management30.com/illustrations//

Leading self-organization?!

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Build your team’s collaboration muscles…

Contact me at ellen@profluence.ca/www.profluence.ca . I tweet as @eegroveMeet Agile practitioners at an Agile Ottawa meeting or Ottawa Scrum Users Group or

find your local Agile users groupStart with one of these great books:

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Agile methods are based on the fundamental premise that growth of people & of systems is organic, not linear, and subject to constant change.

We are constantly responding to change, in ourselves and our environments – agile methods give us a way to embrace change and thrive within a complex environment in a systematic fashion.

Mishkin Berteig