Mar
08
2016
2016 March Meetup
Tue (07:00 PM - 09:00 PM)
Summary
Join us at Agile Yorkshire for a lively and insightful session on transitioning from traditional waterfall approaches to Agile, and how people are the key to making it all work. We'll start with a step-by-step strategy for introducing Agile to teams used to plan-driven methods—no huge leaps of faith required! You’ll learn how to bring people on board gradually, based on real-world experience. Then, we’ll dive into a case study from the Home Office Digital UK North Hub, exploring how they embraced Agile by focusing on people, empowerment, and building a culture that fits the team, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all framework. Expect plenty of practical tips and relatable stories from the Agile frontlines!
Programme
Agile By Stealth - A Step By Step Guide
One thing I’ve noticed about agile is that it’s difficult to really understand it unless you’ve actually done it. This makes it tricky to *sell* agile – especially to people who are used to a plan-driven (waterfall) approach. In other words pretty much everyone who hasn’t already gone agile. In my experience, agile delivery is just too different from waterfall for some folk to jump in head first. It is, however, possible to take people on a journey from waterfall towards agile delivery that doesn’t involve too much of a leap of faith. In this presentation I’m going to describe a step-by-step strategy that I’ve used a few times with some success.
Tony Heap
Tony Heap is a freelance agile coach / trainer / scrum master / business analyst designer based in Yorkshire. He has worked for all sorts of clients including YBS Group, ASDA, Morrisons, NHS, DoH, RWE nPower, Arcadia, BT, BarclayCard and Egg, in some cases partnering with local consultancies such as BJSS and Answer Consulting. In his spare time he likes to share his experiences and ideas on his blog www.its-all-design.com. He is particularly interested in agile approaches and how they apply to business analysis. He is a requirements denier.
People-Driven-Agile (at Home Office Digital)
The most fundamental part in any transition towards being Agile is people. Agile requires a mindset change towards empowerment which people often fear. You hear a lot of people say focus on people, but not often backed up by HOW, giving real examples of ways you can do this. This talk will be a real case study focusing on the Home Office Digital UK North Hub. It is that start up that's not a start up.
Presented in this anecdotal journey we will cover the many hats of Lean Start Up, defining our culture and team values and how we tailored our Agile ways of working to our people, as opposed to shoehorning people into a methodology or framework.
Chris Roberts
Chris is an Agile Practitioner who works with a range of organisations from start ups to Corporates to understand their problems and enable them to work more effectively. His work in both Coaching and Delivery through his brand Nimble, varies from Portfolio right down to team level. Whilst having practical use of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP (to name a few), above else Chris loves working with people, treating them as the individuals in order to find out the best solution for them.
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