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Agile State of Mind Andy Gherna, Technology Services Ester Cha, Technology Services What is Agile? What is Scrum? Work is Transparent Why we Started Scrum Several Goals: Improve team to stakeholder communication and feedback


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Andy Gherna, Technology Services Ester Cha, Technology Services

Agile State of Mind

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What is “Agile”?

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What is Scrum?

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Work is Transparent

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Why we Started Scrum

  • Several Goals:
  • Improve team to stakeholder communication and feedback
  • Reduce organizational friction
  • Increase reliability
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Siloed Communication

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Process Bottlenecks

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How we Started Scrum

  • Stumbled out the gate
  • We found someone to be our dedicated scrum master!
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Initial Roles

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Development Team
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Early Results

  • We got organized
  • Gamified the process; learned how to “keep score”
  • Improvements needed
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Roles Revamped

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Development Team
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Lesson #1: Focus on Communication

  • Daily stand-ups
  • Collaborative working sessions
  • Customer feedback loop
  • Accessibility of product owner to development team
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Lesson #2: Don’t Marry the Framework

  • Make the framework work for you
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Key Lesson #3: Teamwork

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The Gains

  • Agility
  • Increased productivity
  • New releases every sprint
  • Customer satisfaction and involvement
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Where We’re Headed

  • Continuous deployment
  • Integrated user feedback
  • https://youtu.be/2NFH3VC6LNs?t=46
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Questions?

Andy Gherna – agherna@illinois.edu Ester Cha – estercha@illinois.edu