Going Agile

Mariette Ferreira, FairFX

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Life before agile

A typical day

Time for change

a mindset…a way of working…

a methodology…a system…a simple idea

“whenever you start a project, why not

regularly check in, see if what you’re doing

is heading in the right direction, and if it’s

actually what people want?”

• an iterative, incremental approach

• a way to easily adjust to stakeholder needs

• continuous improvement

Agile is…

- Jeff Sutherland

Agile Manifesto: Key Values

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Scrum Kanban

Scrumban Lean

Methodologies

Sprints T-shaped Velocity

Burn-down charts Backlog

Scrum master

Agile ≠ scrum

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum (stand-up)

Sprint Review

Sprint Retrospective

Product Owner

Scrum Master

Developers

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Scrumban

Ceremonies of Scrum + flexibility of pull-based

Kanban with WIP limits

How agile has helped our team

Focus

Transparency

An empowered team takes ownership

Improved stakeholder management

Flexible planning

Respond faster to customer needs

Clear understanding of dependencies

Agile in B2B

Company culture

Get Sales involved

‘Formalise’ learnings

Marketing needs to drive transformation

Is it for tech only?

Senior management buy-in is key

Consider team sizes

Works best with proximate teams

Need expert support?

What I’ve learnt along the way

Continuous improvement

Always ask: is it adding value?

It’s okay if we’re not T-shaped

You can be agile and scrum without a product owner or scrum master

There’s the perfect agile world…then there’s the real world…

It’s not a replacement for strategy!

Thanks