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Agile @ OPM: the USAJOBS Product Owner Perspective

Agile @ OPM: the USAJOBS Product Owner Perspective. By Alesia Booth & Richard Cheng. Agenda. Background Why Agile Outcome Obstacles & Lessons Learned. Richard Cheng. Principal and Agile practice lead at Excella Consulting CST, CSM, CSPO, CSP, PMP, PMI-ACP

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Agile @ OPM: the USAJOBS Product Owner Perspective

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  1. Agile @ OPM: the USAJOBS Product Owner Perspective By Alesia Booth & Richard Cheng

  2. Agenda • Background • Why Agile • Outcome • Obstacles & Lessons Learned

  3. Richard Cheng • Principal and Agile practice lead at Excella Consulting • CST, CSM, CSPO, CSP, PMP, PMI-ACP • Founder and executive committee member for the Agile Defense Adoption Proponents Team (ADAPT) • Performed Agile training, assessment, and coaching at USAJOBS

  4. Alesia Booth • 20+ years of Federal HR experience • 10+ years of Federal hiring policy and systems experience • Certified Scrum Product Owner • Acted as Product Owner for development of USAJOBS 3.0 • Continuing to work on recruitment data standards and talent management systems at Treasury

  5. USAJOBS • More than half a million visitors each day • More than 100k unique logins per day • More than 10k average daily job postings • Nearly 3M average daily searches • More than 9.6M average daily page views

  6. USA Jobs

  7. Why Agile?

  8. Agile Values Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

  9. Agile Principles • Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery • Welcomechangingrequirements • Deliver frequently, preferring a shorter timescale • Business & technical work together daily • Pick the right team and trust them • Face-to-face Communication • Working software is the primary measure of progress • Sustainable pace • Technical excellence and good design enhances agility • Simplicity, maximizing the amount of work not done • Best results emerge from self-organizing teams • The team regularly reflects to become more effective

  10. Agile Methodologies

  11. *from ScrumPrimer.com Scrum Framework

  12. Scrum

  13. Need Iterative & Incremental Approach

  14. Outcome

  15. Passed OIG SDLC Audit

  16. Stakeholder Benefits

  17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7821771@N05/4679360979 Obstacles & Lessons Learned

  18. Mindset

  19. Know the Terminology

  20. Requirements

  21. Distance

  22. Security/508 Compliance

  23. Scope Creep

  24. Good ScrumMaster

  25. Final Words Agile Principle #12: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

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