1. Getting Agile or How I learned to stop worrying and love the index cards CIPS Business Analysis SIG Event JOHN JOHNSTON ThoughtWorks

8. waterfall and structured methods Web developer COBOL 12 years in IT 5 years in college

9. August 2005

10. August 2005 First exposure to agile

11. What’s changed?

12. I thought my job was to write specifications

13. Now it’s the delivery of working software into production

14. for real end users

15. Eh?

16. a change of emphasis

17. delivering business value

21. Business Analysis

22. Business Analysis

23. delivering business value

24. not fetishising requirements on paper

25. solving business problems

26. may involve software

27. just a means to an end

28. do what you need to do to deliver

29. implementation over documentation

34. and people doing this

35. Where the wild things are working with stories

39. WRONG!

40. (a bit) WRONG

41. (a bit) WRONG (sometimes)

42. (a bit) WRONG (sometimes) It Depends!

43. i am a consultant 

45. a unit of planning not documentation

46. agile mindset

47. implementation over documentation

48. road-map over end-state

51. card conversation confirmation

53. become documentation at the end

54. stories are a roadmap towards implementation

55. MartinFowler.com: RollerSkateImplementation

58. INVEST

59. I N V E S T Independent

60. I N V E S T Negotiable

61. I N V E S T Valuable

62. I N V E S T Estimate-able

63. I N V E S T Small

64. I N V E S T Testable

67. tell me what , not how

68. keep stories business focussed and implementation neutral

69. find out why that story matters

74. new dimensions

75. user centred design

76. customer proxy & user champion

77. contextual inquiry

78. “ you can observe a lot, just by watching” Yogi Berra

80. low fidelity prototyping http://www.alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping

84. “ We’re agreed then?”

85. “ Ah!”

86. “ We are agreed then”

92. just un oeuf

93. just enough

97. how much is just enough?

98. what do we need to know next that we don’t know at the moment?

100. 4 of 4 getting agile took good coaching and trying it out

103. what questions do you have?