SPA Conference session: Agile: It’s not just about the development team | |||
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| Session format: | Workshop [read about the different session types] | ||
| Abstract: | Many businesses perceive software development as a blocker. If only the development team could work faster and deliver software at the rate imagined by the wider business. However, what if their dreams came true? Imagine you had a development team that could deliver working software into production every hour. What would that mean for your business? Would your business be able to cope with it and what’s more, would it be able to capitalise on it? This workshop will explore the challenges that can occur when the perceived development bottleneck is removed. Kanban tells us when you remove one bottleneck this exposes others, so which ones would become apparent in your business? Will the new bottleneck be product management, sales, support or another part of the wider business? What problems would be exposed in those areas and how could these be addressed? Are these issues actually impacting your business currently? When all these things are considered, you may question whether development is actually your most pressing bottleneck. Participants will work in small groups to exchange thoughts and ideas, build them into a coherent viewpoint and present them back to the other groups. | ||
| Audience background: | Experience in a company doing software development, ideally doing or trying to do agile but not vital | ||
| Benefits of participating: | Getting a good idea of how agile should impact your wider organisation Some | ||
| Materials provided: | Profiles of people potentially impacted to work around | ||
| Process: | Intro * Session objectives * Some motivating examples * Session process Round 1 * Split into teams of 4(-ish) * Distribute one of the 4 different roles/challenges to each team * Brainstorm towards a poster that can be presented back to the whole group Round 2 * subtle adjustment... * Continue brainstorming (helped by beginners mind?) and produce poster Presentations * Each team presents their poster to the whole group Conclusions and wrap up | ||
| Detailed timetable: | 00 - 05 Intro 05 - 20 Round 1 20 - 35 Round 2 35 - 60 Presentations 60 - 70 Conclusions and wrap up 5 minutes to flex where it's needed | ||
| Outputs: | Will create a blog post from posters | ||
| History: | Run with Kevin Rutherford at Agile Manchester 2015 and several internal company runs | ||
| Presenters | |||
| 1. Andy Longshaw LexisNexis |
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