Adaptive aGile Brian Meadows Business Applications Manager Salt River Project

1. A Real World Example Adaptive aGileBrian MeadowsBusiness Applications ManagerSalt River Project

2. What is Adaptive Agile? Adaptive Agile is the applying of the tenants of Agile to SDLC without confining to a specific agile methodology. Therefore, Agile is adopted as a framework rather than a process or mandate.

3. Why Agile? Ever increasing backlog of projectsNo obvious customer priorityNo direction, lack of visionDisgruntled customers – overbearing processesLow team morale

4. Prescription MS TechEd Seminar on AgileLargest and Most Problematic ProjectPicked method to apply (Scrum)Convince Department ManagerConvince Customers to participate

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”– Charles Darwin

6. Attributes of a Change Agent CouragePassionLeadership“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”-Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. Tenants of Agile TransparencyCustomer Collaboration“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles DarwinTeam EmpowermentTime Boxing “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” – Parkinson’s Law

8. Tenants of Agile (cont’d) Continuous ImprovementIterativeCustomer Satisfaction and Customer ExperienceProximityAccuracy vs. Preciseness

9. Tools Scrum/Kanban BoardTask Tracking ToolRetrospectivesEnd in Mind/End VisioningPriority PlanningStand up/Scrum MeetingsProject ManagementHeuristic Development PracticesContinuous Improvement PracticesPrototypingUser Stories (Who, What, Why)Estimation Games

10. Q&A

11. A Real World Example ADAPTIVE AGILEBrian MeadowsBusiness Applications ManagerSalt River Project Email: bmeadows2@cox.netBlog: http://adaptiveagile.wordpress.com/Resource: http://agilemanifesto.org/