Agile in Life Sciences IT. Pain or Gain?19 September 2013 | Andrei Doibani

AN AGILE ADOPTION THAT WORKS

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development

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 is aMajor Management Discovery

Forbes.com

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Build

Implement & Use

Specify and Design

Test

Product Vision

Specifications& Design

Coding

Testing

Acceptance& Operations

The WATERFALL V-model

WATERFALL + SCRUM => WATER-SCRUM-FALL

Forrester, 2011

Hybrid Approach

Product Vision

Specifications& Design

Coding

Testing

Acceptance& Operations

WATER SCRUM FALL

Coding

Testing

Acceptance& Operations

SCRUM FALL

Product Vision

Specifications& Design

WATER

Hybrid Approach

Acceptance& Operations

FALLWATER

Product Vision

Hybrid Approach

Specifications& Design

SCRUM

Coding

Testing

WATER

Specifications& Design

SCRUM

Coding

Product Vision

Hybrid Approach

FALL

Testing

Acceptance& Operations

Tuning

Product Vision

Specifications& Design

WATER

Shorten the WATER

part

Acceptance& OperationsFALL

Accelerate the FALL

part

Testing

Coding

SCRUM

Use the best of SCRUM

Considerations

Release often React to the change and not against it

Formalism is one of the deliverables

Management’s awareness and involvement iscrucial

AGILITY REQUIRES DISCIPLINE

AN AGILE ADOPTION THAT WORKS

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

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