Do you work at a corporate organisation and think it is impossible to follow an agile method? Are you an agile vendor that needs to work with corporates and struggle to get your head around it? In the rest of the world for a number of years the challenge has been how to roll out Agile to enterprises. How are we doing here in the fairest Cape? Join us for a talk on the challenges and rewards of implementing agile in the corporate space. Find out what works, what doesn’t, what to consider when choosing a method and how to engage with your corporate clients as a vendor. And learn about the surprising similarity between contract agile and agile in the corporates.

1. Agile at the
Corporates
CTSPIN
20 February 2013
Antoinette Coetzee

2. We don’t know what we are
missing…

3. Doing Agile
Being Agile

5. Mike Cottmeyer

6. Manifesto for Half-A**ed Agile Software Development
We have heard about new ways of developing software by
paying consultants and reading Gartner reports. Through
this we have been told to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools and we have
mandatory processes and tools to control how those individuals (we prefer the
term ‘resources’) interact
Working software over comprehensive documentation as long as that
software is comprehensively documented
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation within the boundaries of
strict contracts, of course, and subject to rigorous change control
Responding to change over following a plan provided a detailed plan is in
place to respond to the change, and it is followed precisely
That is, while the items on the left sound nice in theory, we’re an enterprise
company, and there’s no way we’re letting go of the items on the right.
http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/

7. Currently…

8. Pockets of Agile everywhere

9. sometimes

10. Your approach

11. Approaches that work
1. Open, curious, appreciative, humble,
compassionate, patient
2. Basic change management
3. Top down and bottom up
4. Prove it in the small first

12. The Heath Brothers on Change

13. Publicise and get buy-
in

14. Adapt the Method

15. Successes

16. And now for the serious stuff…

17. Frameworks and methods to
consider
 Lean Software Development – Mary and Tom
Poppendieck
 http://www.poppendieck.com/
 Disciplined Agile Delivery – Scott Ambler et al
 http://disciplinedagiledelivery.com/
 Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) – Ivar
Jacobson et al
 http://semat.org/
 Scaled Agile Framework – Dean Leffingwell
 http://scaledagileframework.com/
 Mike Cottmeyer’s work on Enterprise Agility
 http://www.leadingagile.com/

18. Don’t disregard 80% of the benefits of Agile because
you are not 100% agile after 3 months. Remember,
Agile transformations are never truly Done so you
might as well keep going!
The individuals involved will thank you… And surely it
is about them, after all?

19. Thank you!
Questions?

20. Justplainagile.co.za
Antoinette@justplainagile.co.za
+27-72-6121914