Agile

A view from the top

Colm OhEocha AgileInnovation Ltd

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Agile A View from the Top

AGILE IS DIFFERENT

What is agile?

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Process Control Models

OPEN-LOOP
Analytical - Predictive

Set Target

Controller

CLOSED-LOOP
Empirical - Adaptive

Set Target

Controller

Inspect

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The Parts and the Whole

Iteration Plan
Daily Stand-Up

Set Target

Adapt

Clean Design & Code

User Stories - Late Elaboration
Shared Code Ownership
Test Driven Development..

Controller

Inspect

Pair Programming
Customer Reviews &
Feedback
Retrospectives
AutoTest..

The Life of an Iteration

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Balancing Agility and Discipline

Barry Boehm

Discipline

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AGILE IS GOOD

Transparency

Your Favorite!

Painpoints

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What we really needed was a good

hammer

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Waterfall

Value Delivered

Agile

Resources

Time

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Quality

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Transparency

Tell me how you will measure me

and Ill tell you how Ill behave

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Prediction is hard
especially when its about the future
Niels Bohr

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99%
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57%
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Cone of Uncertainty

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Agile A View from the Top

AGILE IS MAINSTREAM

Gaining Traction
Gartner 2008: 15%-25% of
Organisations have
Implemented Agile
Capgemini 2009: Agile is no. 4 of
the Top 5 IT Priorities for 2010
Gartner 2010: 80% of
Software Development will
use Agile by 2012

Agile
36%
Waterfall
13%

AdHoc
30%

Iterative
21%

Data Source: Forrester/Dr. Dobbs Global Developer Technographics Survey Q3 2009

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Hard Evidence
Dr. Dobbs/Ambysoft 2008

VersionOne2010

QMSA 2009

Visibility

83%

Responsiveness

90%

Time To Completion

Quality

Productivity

37%

64%
77%

*4

63%

16%

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82%
73%

Agile A View from the Top

WHERE NEXT?

The Agile Adoption Curve

Infusion

Routinization

Fail to
Scale

Were
different

Initiation

Acceptance

Adaptation

Adoption

Pilot

Investigation

Consideration

Awareness

The Agile Adoption Curve and Chasms

Adoption
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Assimilation

It depends
Business Imperatives

Scientific Theory

Project, Team
and Organisational
Context

Agile Values & Principles

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Your Method

Where am I?
Assessment
Dimensions

Team

Requirements
& Analysis

Planning

Technical
Practices

Knowledge Creation &

Learning

Culture &
Organisation

Time To Value

Economy

Productivity

Quality

Predictability

Visibility

Innovation

Flexibility

Business
Drivers

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Colm OhEocha
AgileInnovation Limited
www.agileinnovation.eu
Colm@agileinnovation.eu

About the Presenter

Colm OhEocha,
AgileInnovation Ltd.
Colm@agileinnovation.eu

Colm is an IT industry veteran, with over 20 years design and

development experience. His interest in Lean Thinking
began when automating Just-In-Time production lines in the
1980s. Implementing early agile software methods in 2001,
Colm has extensive hands-on experiences across teams,
organisations and technologies. In varied roles of developer,
architect and Director of R&D, he has seen Lean and Agile
from a variety of perspectives. More recently Colm has
partnered with LERO, the Irish software engineering
research institute, investigating how agile and lean methods
influence innovation in software development.
AgileInnovation offers agile advisory and coaching services.
Pre and post adoption assessments, coaching services to
help teams get the most from agile, developing a agile
business case, and targeted workshops on specific agile
practices.
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