rijksoverheid.nl and scrum jboy aarhus 2010

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From 16 websites to 1:www.rijksoverheid.nlUsing SCRUM, good people and web standards

Gerrit C. BerkouwerJ.Boye10 - Aarhus

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‘The Making Of Rijksoverheid.nl’

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From 16 to 1 websites

New CMS/hostingNew UI-designNew content-strategyMigration of 16 websites13 clients/stakeholdersAnd more…

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2008 2009 2010 2011preparation……………………….realisation

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More than 40 servers HA/HP± 80.000 documents± 20 theme’s and 700 subjects± 35.000 unique visitors per day± 235.000 pageviews per day

Facts and figuresRijksoverheid.nl

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3 years…that’s26280 hours or

94.608.000 seconds…new cms, information architecture, new hosting-platform, usability, webstandards, headaches, metadata, user centered design, persona’s, java, content management, findability, migration, frontend-performance, spring, high availability, high performance, clustering, content-strategy, government, css, xhtml, jquery, javascript, importer, pizza ,UI-design, editorial staff, governance, estimations, security, coffee, URL-redirects, organisation

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or

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How to organize this?Go see: ‘We've killed their darlings - daring to go from 16 websites to one’

By my colleague Gemma Sweeren, tomorrow at 16.00 in the ‘Web Governance’ track!

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let’s talk

SCRUMHow to implement this?

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• human interaction over technology and huge projectplans

• not imposing techniques• webstandards and website-speed a must!• stability and flexibility• include Usability testing

Starting points

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Working

softwareProduct

backlog

Sprint backlog

every24 hours

3

weeks

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Reasons• big project• changing

requirements• for 13 clients...• flexibility needed• speed needed• multiple disciplines• internal and external

projectmembers

What we didFocus your tasks…NO 100% functional designNO 100% technical designChange is welcome!Short iterations

DAILY communication and mini-planning

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Goals• deliver high quality• deliver often• deliver quick• deliver on time• direct results for clients

• learn and adapt!

What we didFocussed teams:• development-teams• design-team• infrastructure-team• migration-team• editorial team

Demo and live every 3 weeks…

Dedicated ‘Productowner’

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PO: bulletproof

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PO: Draw lines

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PO: Choose, decide, prioritize

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Soft Goals• communication• human interaction• collaboration• increase morale• increase motivation• increase trust• increase creativity

• building trust...

What we didGood people…Multidisciplinary teams

Daily team stand-upsScrum-of-scrums stand-up

Story-findingEstimation sessionsRetrospective sessions

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SCRUMTEAM: max 8

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SCRUMTEAM: self steering

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SCRUMTEAM: no walls

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• transparency, we know what we are doing• planning is (almost) fun now !• working in pairs among almost all disciplines• no walls between teams• good demo’s, on time and in KNOWN scope• quality is very high

building trust...proud teammembers

Results

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Challenges…

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• good people to do the magic

• lots of stakeholders: how to keep them into SCRUM and how to communicate?

• (usability) testing

• www.rijksoverheid.nl: visitors, stability, security

Challenges/discussion

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Thank you! Gerrit Berkouwerg.berkouwer@minaz.nl

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