The agile and lean mindset. Digital transformation conference, 21 May 2015
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The document discusses the challenges faced in digital projects, particularly highlighting a specific failed project that suffered from poor leadership, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines. It advocates for adopting agile and lean methodologies to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and responsiveness by involving users and utilizing data-driven feedback. The document outlines strategies for transitioning to these methods, including influencing senior staff, building multidisciplinary teams, and starting with small experiments.
The agile and lean mindset. Digital transformation conference, 21 May 2015
- 1. Agile and Lean and Zombies Damien Austin-Walker, vInspired Jo Kerr, Breast Cancer Care
- 2. What’s the worst digital project you have ever worked on?
- 3. Jo’s worst project ever
- 4. What made it so bad? ● Lack of clear leadership / governance ● Users not consulted - internally focussed ● Requirements not clearly articulated ● New requirements introduced mid-project ● Timelines not adhered to ● Stressful for everyone involved
- 5. Like many projects, this one was waterfall
- 8. An alternative - Agile
- 11. Lean principles 1. Eliminate Waste 2. Build Quality In 3. Create Knowledge 4. Defer Commitment 5. Deliver Fast 6. Respect People 7. Optimise the Whole
- 12. Who already works like this?
- 13. Agile/Lean vs Zombies See results earlier Can be slow Feedback constantly No reaction - only moans Serves your customers Internal agenda Flexible Fixed focus Uses brains (data) Eats brains
- 14. Why should we work like this?
- 15. What are the benefits? ● Efficiency - save time and money ● Focus - don’t build what you don’t need ● Co-creation with audiences ● Data + feedback-led (share early and iterate) ● Impact on wider organisation
- 16. Efficiency
- 17. Efficiency
- 18. Focus
- 19. Co-creation
- 20. Co-created surprises Conversion rate up to 4.8% 38% increase in sign-ups 4,300 extra applications a year
- 21. Data-led
- 22. Data informed lean experiment
- 23. Wider organisation ● More data-driven ● More open to sharing early and often ● Greater understanding of digital process ● See where they fit on the roadmap ● Use Lean elsewhere
- 24. Have what it takes?
- 25. How to go agile and lean ● Influence senior staff ● Build a strong multi-disciplinary team ● Invest in learning and development ● Start small, experiment with models
- 26. Influence senior staff They say: “Isn’t it expensive/untested/risky?” You say: “...” ● Put into terms they understand (metaphor) ● Case studies ● Meet the development team ● Use a robust Agile contract
- 29. Start small, experiment ● Pick one defined project to try out agile ● Consider ‘Agifall’ or ‘Wagile’ combinations o Agile and lean sprints within phases of a waterfall timeline o Agile and lean + milestones for top-level deliverables o Waterfall on standard deliverables (CMS) + parallel agile and lean on key touchpoints
- 30. Back to Jo’s worst project ever… could Agile have saved the day?
- 31. Ready to take on the undead now? Jo @gambollingsylph Damien @b33god
- 32. Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do. www.charitycomms.org.uk