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Adopting Agile
Jenny McCulloch, Director of Product Innovation
Paul Creamer, CTO
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Outline
Our Challenge Why is Cloud Technology the way
forward The Agile Manifesto What we did to implement Agile and
move to Cloud technology How does it benefit the customer What we’ve learnt
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The Challenge - 2014
The development team was not delivering quickly enough
The requirements had changed by the time the software was released
The development team appeared to work in isolation
The development team felt undervalued
The business was not happy
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Infrastructure Requirement
Flexibility to increase capacity quickly Choice between replacing existing hosted
infrastructure or moving to cloud Wanted greater resilience Did not want to expand infrastructure team
Solution Agile approach using the cloud Iterated available solutions Used off-the-shelf solutions
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1st Solution
Outsource the development to Spain Cheap labour Give the problem to someone else
Reduce UK staff
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2nd Solution
Recruit a UK development team Introduce Agile
Read the books Start stand-ups
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Solution 3
Recognise that it is a journey Train key staff Reset the business expectation Start the journey
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Agile in Practice
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Where are we now
Team working well together 60% along the road Massive change in productivity Releasing a new product with
monthly updates
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So, what are the benefits of Agile for our customer
Involvement and collaboration Deliver software frequently on a short
timescale Continual customer
engagement and fast feedback loop
Improved product visibility
Happy and Involved Customers!
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What we’ve learnt
Barriers• General resistance to change• Lack of understanding that change
takes time – not overnight• Lack of understanding of Agile from a
management perspective• Availability of personnel with
necessary skills• Project complexity (HomeSwapper)
Concerns• Loss of management control• Lack of upfront planning• Lack of documentations• Lack of predictability
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The Agile Manifesto
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