agile for your accounting practice - december 2015
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AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICEpresented by
Nicholas Muldoon
NICHOLAS MULDOON➤ Atlassian, 2007 - 2012➤ Product Manager, JIRA Agile
➤ Twitter, 2013 - Aug 2015➤ Coaching Directors and VPs➤ Agile Industry Consortium
➤ Arijea, October 2015 -➤ Founder➤ Advisory and expertise for
Atlassian Enterprise customers
“What does this guy know about accounting practices…?”
-all of you
I am a customer.
I am a customer.
Accounting is dead, long live accounting!
I am a customer.
Accounting is dead, long live accounting!
Customers are mobile. They want real time.
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICE
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/umbrella
Scrum
KanbanXPLean DevOps
LeSSSAFe
DAD
KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum
Predictive Adaptive
KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum
Predictive Adaptive Reactive
agilemethods
KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum
Predictive Adaptive Reactive
KanbanWaterfall ChaosScrum
Predictive Adaptive Reactive
KANBANDescendant of Toyota Production System and Lean Principles
The team is client focused.
The team delivers quality, minimising waste.
The team delivers iteratively to maximise learning.
The team constantly improves their process.
definition of doneconfirm with the team and client what it means to
complete a piece of work
Tax Return
• reviewed by a peer• reviewed by client• submitted to ATO• Notice of Assessment received• client paid or reimbursed by
ATO• etc
visualiseidentify the activities the team goes through to
deliver value to, or for, the client
Future Today DoneDoing
limitslimits helps work flow across the board
ensuring we deliver value to our client asap
< 4 < 4
Future Today DoneDoing
< 4 < 4
pullpull work as you have capacity
don’t push work onto the team as it slows them down
Future Today DoneDoing
WASTEDelays, mistakes…
MINIMISE CONTEXT
SWITCHINGHelp the team focus
kanbanvisualise work, limit work in process, pull work as
you have capacity, and minimise waste
< 4 < 4
Future Today DoneDoing
agility
never perfectexperiment
learnrepeat
AGILE FOR YOUR ACCOUNTING PRACTICEpresented by
Nicholas Muldoon