1. Agile BPM – Impossible?

2. Robert Gimbel
• Agile since 2006
• BPM since 2008
• Agile BPM since 2010

3. Waterfall Approach to Software Development
Specification
Coding
Test
Rollout

4. Agile Approach to Software Development
Feature 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
Feature 4

5. It‘s all about value
Agile Value
Value
Waterfall Value
Team Cost
Time

6. Who is agile?

7. BPM – Agile or Waterfall?
Value
ROI
agile BPM-
Project
waterfall
ROI
BPM-
Project
ROI
ROI
BPM-
Project
ROI
BPM-
Project BPM-Project
Time

8. What‘s your BPM Project like?
• Degree of change?
• Level of automation?

9. Agile Methods in BPM Projects?
Business IT
Interations
(Timeboxing,
Review)
Product Backlog, Estimation,
Prioritization Commitment
Agile Selforganizing
Agile BPM
Requirements Team
User-/Customer-
Agile Testing
feedback
Burndown
Charts

10. Quick Releases Release 1
Task 2.1
Task 1 Task 3
Task 2.2
Task 2.1
Task 1 Task 3
Task 2.2
Release 2

11. Process and Agile Requirements
create new
article
article administration
open article delete
administra- article
tion
modify
article
User Story 1 User Story 3 User Story 6 User Story 9
User Story 2 User Story 4 User Story 7
User Story 5 User Story 8

12. Short Iterations and Quick Releases
Release 1.1 Release 1.2 Release 1.3
open article
Artikel-
administra-
verwaltung User Story 2 User Story 1
tion
öffnen
create new
article User Story 3 User Story 4 User Story 5
delete
article
User Story 9
modify User Story 7
article User Story 6
User Story 8

13. Product Backlog
Feature 3
Sprint 1 Burndown
Feature 23
Feature 1
Feature 7
Sprint 2 Feature 11
Feature 16
Feature 17
Sprint 3 Feature 22
Feature 13
Review 1 Review 2 Release Time

14. Release planning
I1 (100%) I2 (75%) I3 (50%) I4 (40%) I5 (30%) I6 (30%) I7 (20%)
Today Release 1 Release 2
Level of detail, probability of realization

15. Practical Example: Process View
User Story Link

16. Practical Example: User Story View
User Story
GUI
Priority
Aceptance criteria

17. Practical Example: Product Backlog
Priority
Iterations

18. It‘s Tough and it‘s Fun!
Comments?

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