Agile Tour DC Chasing Windmills: Agile in the Government
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Chasing Windmills? Getting Agile Success in Government Paul M. Boos
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This is the presentation for the Agile Tour DC Conference 22 October.
Transcript of Agile Tour DC Chasing Windmills: Agile in the Government
Chasing Windmills?
Getting Agile Success in Government
Paul M. Boos
Which do we see?
Why should we care?
Transparency
Speed
Value
Why doesn’t
the Gov’t
use Agile?
Software Engineering
Understanding
Perceived Barriers
Challenges
Bureaucracy?
Gov’t Organizations
This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl
Tend to be here! (sheer size)
Policy?
Brings Order?
Gov’t Policies
This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl
Tend to be here! (in theory)
Complexity or Complication?
Complicated + ComplexOverrides Ordered + Simple
+ =Process Team Result
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n Worse Case
Best Case
We’re lazy…?
Maybe Afraid?
Mistakes are not tolerated…
We don’t take time to read (or write) our policies…
We let others tell us what the policies mean…
Some basic magic…
Business Software is a Craft
It takes skill……and
Creativity
Grass Roots Motivation
Top Down Support
Agile Success
Strive to decomplicate…
This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl
Help teams operate as simple and ordered as possible.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Apply the pants principle…Simple process adopted by the team doing the work.
+Process Team
“…reducing costs requires a better way to organize work, not better cost information.”
-H. Thomas Johnson (paraphrased)
Hesitate Δing for 1 problem
What about…
EA
VME
BE
DGU
PRAS
SDLC
T
Simplify
Simple Process = Easy Auditing
Focus on Delivering Business Value
Align Milestones w/Releasable Software
Systems Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)
Enterprise Architecture
Graft and Prune EA Components
The Iron Triangle Agilified
Est
imat
e
Scope
Budget
Work to…
Schedule
Scope
Budget Schedule
Prioritized EpicsEpic 1Epic 2Epic 3Epic 4Epic 5
…
Budget/Schedule + Mgmt Reserve
>
An Approach for Executing Projects w/Agility
Execute on small slices!
Classic EVM
Design
Analyze
Develop
Deploy$
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Scrum Process
Release
Release Plan
Release
$Scrum-based EVM
Personnel Annual Review System
Remove theblame cultureIt’s not the rebel alliance!
Advanced Wizardry
Clean the Windows!
Demand and Give Transparency
Retrospect
Experiment!
Set a vision…
and
help your teams see it!
There’s nothing to fear.
