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Presented at Government of Canada Collaborative Management Day June 2011TRANSCRIPT
Cultivating Collaboration Through Agile Work
Ellen GroveCollaborative Management Day
June 2011
Sorry – no ‘best’ practices!
‘best practice advice, when it comes to managing IT projects, actually reinforces this circle of project failure.’
http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/23/
Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan
Agile work
Is a highly collaborative project delivery
method that has small functional releases
which are delivered frequently
Iteration
24 hours
ReleaseBacklog
IterationBacklog
Daily Standup
Feedback from clients/users
Potentially shippableproduct
increment
Vision & Goals
Build your team’s collaboration muscles…
Contact me at [email protected]/www.profluence.ca . I tweet as @eegroveMeet Agile practitioners at an Agile Ottawa meeting or Ottawa Scrum Users Group or
find your local Agile users groupStart with one of these great books:
Agile methods are based on the fundamental premise that growth of people & of systems is organic, not linear, and subject to constant change.
We are constantly responding to change, in ourselves and our environments – agile methods give us a way to embrace change and thrive within a complex environment in a systematic fashion.
Mishkin Berteig