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BA Stands for
“Being Agile”

Craig Smith
Suncorp
Welcome



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                                                                                            “B” is for
                                                                                              back
                                                                                               to
                                                                                             basics

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                                                           “A” is for
                                                             agile

                                                           Umbrella
                                                            term

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Agile Manifesto   16/12/2010




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Agile Pyramid                                      16/12/2010




            Approach

            Practices

            Principles

                  Values
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 Agile
Values


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Trust                                                                                         16/12/2010




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Innovative Accountability                                                                                                                   16/12/2010




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Courage                                               16/12/2010




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Honesty                                                                      16/12/2010




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It’s All About Culture                                                            16/12/2010




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  Agile
Principles


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Collaboration                                                                            - 14 -
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Speed                                                              - 15 -
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Simplicity                                                    - 17 -
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Teamwork                                                       - 18 -
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  Agile
Practices


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XP




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Scrum




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Agile
Approach


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5%




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Concept
10%




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Initiate
80%




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Deliver
5%




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Deploy
Happy Days!




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Speed to cool...




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The Agile Team
Technical Divide
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Analyst skills are important!
Get from
 this...


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To this...



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Just not this...




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Cross functional team
                                             Project
                                             Sponsor

                                                             Project
                                                             Manager               Program
                                                                                   Manager
               Consultants

                                            Iteration
                                            Manager
                                                             Team
                                                              lead

                      Comms
                      Officer
    Busines                                 Core                      Team
                                                                     Member
    Owner
                                            Team
                       Quality
                      Assurance
                                                               Bus.
                                                               SME
                                  Project
                                  Officer         Team
                                                Specialist                    Support
                Other key                                                     Analyst
              stakeholders


                                      Extended
                                        Team

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Focus on value
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Break it down
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Backlog
Story cards
With acceptance criteria
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INVEST in your stories
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TDD & ATDD
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Given... When... Then...
MoSCoW




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Estimation




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Daily standup




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Retrospective




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Co-location




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Adaptive planning




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Frequent small releases




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Continuous feedback




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Automation




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Spike
Visualise the flow
Wrap Up



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Improve your craft
Have fun




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Opportunity is knocking
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Heeeey! BA’s are cool!
Questions ??
Craig Smith
http://www.suncorp.com.au
http://www.agileacademy.com.au
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
@smithcdau
http://www.slideshare.net/smithcdau/
Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest diversified financial services providers,
supplying banking, insurance and wealth management products to around 9 million customers through
well-established and recognised brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency,
Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as Suncorp and GIO. Today, Suncorp is Australia's fifth
largest bank and second largest domestic general insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp
has representation in 450 offices, branches and agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand.
(http://www.suncorp.com.au)

The Agile Academy is the next wave in Agile learning and collaboration. Designed for IT professionals,
the Agile Academy is a knowledge hub that promotes Agile related learning, knowledge sharing and
capability development across the IT industry. We offer an integrated curriculum of leading edge
courses across the entire solution development life cycle, covering all roles at varying levels.
(http://www.agileacademy.com.au)

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