How To Convince Your CIOYou Want to be Agile

Simon Raik-AllenMYOB@simonraikallen

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CHAOS Report

• Executive Support• User Involvement• Requirements• Project size (optimization)

QUALITYFEATURES

INNOVATIONPRODUCT SUCCESS

TIME TO MARKET

Types of IT Groups

uivfication

The Business Engineering

The Business Users Engineering

VALUEWASTE

What do execs eatin the wild?

DataData

Value Streams

http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2008/02/outrunning_your_headlights.html

“If you decide to cancel the project, you’ll at least have working software”

Working Software

Functional Slicing

“Cost Center” Innovation

E.E.F.

The Goal Is

Have your project be a smashing success at all cost

Let your exec experience life in an Agile environment

The Goal Is Not

Its Also NotUse every Agile technique in the book

What is executive porn?

A planAlso developer repellant.

I WILL NOT WING ITI WILL ALWAYS THINK AHEAD

I WILL EVALUATE CONTINGENCIESSEARCH FOR PITFALLS

AND CONTINUOUSLY PLAN AND RE-PLANA MILLION RANDOM TYPING MONKEYS

CANNOT TAKE MY JOB

THE AGILE PLANNING PLEDGE

• Hypotheses• Spikes• Possible outcomes• Story order (risk)• Feature release map• Team distribution • User testing checkpoints• Estimated burn up chart

Elements of a Plan

Reporting

The Show Case

Technical Debt

Understand your own situationBecome one with your goalsChoose a small projectTake on only a few techniquesPlan Plan & Re-planTreat debt with responsibility

Over sell it – time or moneySay “Agile”Hide behind cardsWaffleSuccumb to EEFScrew it up

DOs DON’Ts

And…

Retros

Thanks for listening…

Simon Raik-AllenMYOB@simonraikallen

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