beyond practice: exploring, discovering, & driving business value
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BEYOND PRACTICE: EXPLORING, DISCOVERING, & DRIVING BUSINESS VALUE
CHAD SHERIDANCIO, RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY, USDA
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RMA BACKGROUND• RMA Administers Federal Crop Insurance Program • Covers $110 billion liability, $10 billion premium• Last year $9 billion indemnity
• Small agency (~450 employees) partnered with 18 companies that sell and service 1.2 million insurance policies
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WHY CHANGE?
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WHY CHANGE?• Multi-year projects• Over-budget• Behind Schedule• Not delivering expected capabilities
• Production system instability• Year-long backlog of changes• Business impacting outages• Maintenance costs limiting development
Disciplined Program and Project Management Will SAVE THE DAY!
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INITIAL RESULTS
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TIME FOR AGILE
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BUF - AGILE
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AGILE/DEVOPS CULTURE• Not just development—all phases of the lifecycle• Role of product owners• Program/Project Management• Leadership role• #ChangeAgents
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RMAGILE
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WHAT DID WE LEARN?• Agile development cannot
succeed without an Agile culture
• Be aware of the white space
• In oversight and management – extreme engagement with light fingers
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PRACTICE IS NOT ENOUGH!• The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but
Should it be built? --Eric Ries
• What do we do with the improved ability to deliver at speed, or the cost reductions brought through a continuous delivery pipeline?
• What was the one essential element that drove the turnaround in The Phoenix Project?
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