1 / 103

Getting Agile or How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards

Getting Agile or How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards. CIPS Business Analysis SIG Event JOHN JOHNSTON ThoughtWorks. 40. 4. 1. 100. I have not always been as I appear to you now. 5 years in college. 12 years in IT. COBOL. Web developer.

tadeo
Download Presentation

Getting Agile or How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Getting Agileor How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards CIPS Business Analysis SIG Event JOHN JOHNSTON ThoughtWorks

  2. 40

  3. 4

  4. 1

  5. 100

  6. I have not always been as I appear to you now

  7. 5 years in college 12 years in IT COBOL Web developer waterfall and structured methods

  8. August 2005

  9. August 2005 First exposure to agile

  10. What’s changed?

  11. I thought my job was to write specifications

  12. Now it’s the delivery of working software into production

  13. for real end users

  14. Eh?

  15. a change of emphasis

  16. delivering business value

  17. agile makes this easier

  18. business analysis

  19. Business Analysis

  20. Business Analysis

  21. delivering business value

  22. not fetishising requirements on paper

  23. solving business problems

  24. may involve software

  25. just a means to an end

  26. do what you need to do to deliver

  27. implementation over documentation

  28. agile focuses on outcomes not artefacts

  29. 1 of 4 agile makes it easier to focus on business value

  30. getting started

  31. i saw a lot of these

  32. and people doing this

  33. Where the wild things are working with stories

  34. BAs write stories

  35. developers write code

  36. Therefore stories are requirements, right?

  37. WRONG!

  38. (a bit) WRONG

  39. (a bit) WRONG (sometimes)

  40. It Depends! (a bit) WRONG (sometimes)

  41. i am a consultant

  42. a unit of planning not documentation

  43. agile mindset

  44. implementation over documentation

  45. road-map over end-state

  46. Ron Jeffries - 3 Cs http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/expCardConversationConfirmation.htm

More Related