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Agile & the Academic world

Agile as mature of part of a curriculum

NGI/ACI

March 19, 2013

Arie van Bennekum

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Introduction


Consultant since 1987Developer 1987

Project manager 1994Trainer 1997Coach 1998

Management consultant 2003

Lecturing since 1994DevelopmentProject managementPrince-2FacilitattionRADDSDMGradutation projects

In the Agile world since 1994Certified DSDM 1997

Board member DSDM Consortium Benelux 2000(Co-)author Agile Manifesto 2001Chair Agile Consortium Int 2012

Facilitation since 1994Certified Professional Facilitator 1998Assessor CPF 1998

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• Introduction

• Consequences

• Solutions

• Definitions

Flow

• Agile as part of a curriculum

• Agile in the Academic world

• Agile and certification

• Future developments

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Introduction

The errors that re-occur….

• The solution does not deliver what the business needs

• The solution is not accepted by the end user population

• The project runs over time

• The project runs over budget


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Gartner

Consequences

47%

29%

19%3%2%

Paid, not devilered

Delivered, never used

Used without change

Used after changes

Changed, little used


Poor quality

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100%

140%

108%

80%? 85%!No continious selection

Continious selection

Time and releases

App

licat

ion

size

Consequences


Poor quality

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• Short delivery cycles for regular checksBrings quality, decreases re-work

• End user participation for validation and verificationBrings acceptance and a match with the business

• Prototyping, from an early stageBrings understanding and quality

• Continious testing through the project cycleBrings quality, decreases re-work

• Continious selectionAvoids project obese and brings therefor quality

Solutions


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Solutions

The Agile Manifesto

• Individuals and interaction over processes and tools

• Working software over comprehensive documentation

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

• Responding to change over following a plan

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• Our highest priority is to satisfy the customerthrough early and continuous deliveryof valuable software.

• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.

• Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.

• Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

• Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.

• The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

Solutions


• Working software is the primary measure of progress.

• Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.

• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

• The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

The 12 principles of Agile software

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Solutions, a method

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Traditional Agile

Solutions, a technique

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My definition of Agile

Serving the business by being adaptive (in stead of “deliver what has been described”)

Definitions, Agile


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My definition of a successful project

helps the organisation to achieve their (SMART) business objectives as stated for the project within an acceptable time frame and for an

acceptable investment

Definitions, a succeful project



Agile as part of a curriculum


History

Rotterdam University for Applied Sciences1996 – presentRAD, DSDM, Atern, Agile Project Management

Amsterdam University for Applied Sciences1997 – presentRAD, DSDM

Utrecht University for Applied Sciences2012 – presentDSDM, Agile Project Management

And more in NL …. and also Zürich, Kent




Motivation

1. Should be part of the basic set of every student in the world of IT

2. Attention for both mind set and methods

3. Focus on theory and practical application




Rotterdam, role in the curriculum

• Lectures• Focus on theory• Written tests

• Projects• Follows theory• Practical application• Coach during project

• Graduation• Finalizing activity• Practical application• Coach during project

• Research• As part of the individual contribution to graduation projects


Agile in the Academic world


Ambition of the Agile Consortium International

1. To build and be a strong Agile platform for innovation, sharing and standardization

2. To promote Agile as a concept and embed it in the professional domain

3. To facilitate academic activities such as academic research as a fundament for trust, direction and quality


Agile in the Academic world


Current situation

1. The platform is growing with new chapters together with involvement from various universities in Europe

2. The awarenes for Agile as a part of the curriculum is growing. A growing number of institutes is positioning Agile in the basic set

3. A project is running to identify first needs for academic research and the organisational format to do this in

4. Also collaboration in the UK between the DSDM Consortium and universities


Agile and certification


Independent quality label

1. Certification in Agile is around for almost 2 decades

2. Method independent certification is done by the Agile Consortium

3. Levels from Foundation up to Master

4. Next step after in curricula embedded Agile


Future developments


• Expanding international innovation, standardization and sharing via growth of the Agile Consortium. Romania within weeks, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany (focus on this year)….??

• Building a larger international network (the European Agile Hub called ConnectAgile) for collaboration across consortia including Academic entities., it is under construction and about to go live in weeks

• Improving Agile certification processes in an iterative way within the European Agile Hub to create and maintain an methid independent quality label for Agile experts

• Positioning Agile more and more as a part of the basic curriculum of universities to support the market in ts needs

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Algemene inleiding Atern


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• Individuals and interaction over processes and tools• Working software over comprehensive documentation• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation• Responding to change over following a plan

Customer demand Process

Chaos Bureaucratic

Requirements evolve Specifications up front

Integrated and verbal Remote and written

Do what we like Do what we are told

Driver

Formality

Development approach

Collaboration

Empowerment

Agile Full off Full on

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DM


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