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Delivering Business ValueThe Deal Breakers
Ravi Kumar ravikumar.rk@gmail.com
June 28, 2014
First things first…
• You aren’t an agile programmer—you’re a programmer who programs with agility.
• You don’t work on an agile team—your team exhibits agility.
• You don’t use agile tools—you use tools that enhance your agility.
• It’s easy to tack the word “agile” onto just about anything. Agility is harder to misappropriate.
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http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/ - Dave Thomas
Agility?
www.clickertraining.com
Value?First things first…
• the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
• the material or monetary worth of something.
• the worth of something compared to the price paid or asked for it.
-Google www.shutterstock.com
Deal Breaker - 1
• Is there a standard way to do this?
• Story Points delivered is misleading
Measuring Value
www.eclipsepc.com
What’s in the Backlog?
Deal Breaker - 2
Kano's model focuses on differentiating product features, as opposed to focusing initially
on customer needs
Dysfunctional agile teams!!Deal Breaker - 3
Namesake Backlog
Standardised Estimates
Sprint Plannings
Iteration Chaos
Nothing to Show & Tell
Industrialised Software Delivery Process…
Deal Breaker - 4
www.theverge.com
• Replicating lean manufacturing in software development.
• Factory approach
SCALE Agile…..but is there
Deal Breaker - 5
S - Strategy C - Collaboration A - Autonomy L - Learning E - Evolve
www.skmurphy.com
Where’s the Business side of things?•Budgets and Forecast •Forecasts are not estimates •Ignoring Economics is not pragmatic
Deal Breaker - 6
http://www.contactvirginmedia.com
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Business Forecasting
Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting
Choices
Predictability
www.makeuseof.com
Agility in dev alone will not drive Business Value !!