Agile for Innovation: how to use agile in Proof of Concepts developing for blockhain LAB

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The experience of DNI projects
Videosign and Readerwallet
Agile For Innovation 2018 #A4I2018,
Nadia Fabrizio, CEFRIEL-Politecnico di Milano,
@nadyfabri

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BLOCKCHAIN
2
OUR SERVICES
• Definition and study of
paradigmatic use cases
• Ideate and demonstrate
end-to-end proof of
concepts
• Technology evaluation and
comparison
• Blockchain experience lab
• Support to blockchain lab
creation
• Know-how transfer
CHALLENGES OUR VISION
• Understand
technology
• Understand
impact of
blockchain-
based
solutions
• Investigate
use cases
with
prototypes
Blockchain is a trend topic at the moment and it
may represent a relevant value for your business,
since it allows the exchange of trust and value in
digital ecosystems.
Cefriel in the latest years has been working
extensively on distributed ledger technologies and
smart contracts years, and created an internal
Blockchain Lab, which enables rapid development
of end-to-end proof of concepts.

3. Learn by micro-experimenting
Find your motivation beyond the
hype
Define short “stories” about
specific issues by asking what, why,
for whom, how and when
Look for a potential opportunity to
experiment in small local contexts
Develop your small prototypes
and do a lot of retrospectives to
learn as much as possible
3
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The resulted approach: from seeds to growth through a deep learning path
Understand the risks and opportunities
Define a vision for a specific product
or service
Develop working trials with minimum
valuable features
Understand potential impacts on
you context
Apply what you have learned
Define an original contextual
apporoach to differentiate your
proposal among other competitors.
…..
????
Seeds Early Stage Maturity
The blockchain topic is super hyped fast emerging and developing topic.
A future change of paradigm (why) is expected, so it is better to prepare by experimenting in small with local problems (how to start) and
then pass to trials in safe environment to come up with an original and impactful vision about what is blockchain for us and how can we
exploit it for the mature stage.
Reduce risk by
fast failing/fast
delivery

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Exploratory work
-Need for developing a basic core con competences/skills- learn to learn??
- How to Maximize ROI in R&D? How to reduce risk?
Blockchain Lab s as one of a KIND
Is it not possible
to do innovation
and applied
research without
agile mindset

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-High Rate of changes/ Low Degree of Maturity/ Uncertainty of external
conditions
-The path from opportunity to project execution is getting extremely short
-Openess of today’s research and innovation discoveries has changed the
innovation path
Recognize things as they are, not as you would like to be

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Technology Immaturity
High
ProblemSPACE
Unknown
Where we are. Classifier for Project ‘s Complexity
Chaos!
Strategy: Get out from it or die!
1. Replan with another
technology?
2. Leave out
3. Lean and Lean Startup
Non complex projects
Strategy: Plan-Do-
Check Act
• PMP Tools
• Waterfalls/Progressi
ve Elab
Complex Project
Strategy: Learn and
Adapt!
• Short Cycle Time
• Agile Tools
• Inspect, Adapt &
Transparency
known
Low
“The Growth
Mindset”

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Adopt the Mindset, not a specific tool. Lean and Agile
Lean Startup for
doing the RIGHT
PROJECTS
benefit is the
dramatic reduction of
waste, and increase
of discovery
capability by
empirical approach
Agile for doing
PROJECTS
RIGHT
benefit is the
continuos delivery of
value, increase of
learning during the
project’s time and
risk reduction
Agile Mindset
=human factor
for complex
projects with an
high technology
factor

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• SDLC methodology is an umbrella term to cover all waterfall, spiral, agile SW
development life cycle methodologies that structure the software development
from requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, and testing (Sharma,
Sarkar, & Gupta, 2012).
• 1977. Lean Pillars: WIP Limits, JIT Methods, Self organizing team
• 2001. Agile ManifestoàPrinciples and Values derived from from Extreme
Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal,
Feature-Driven Development,
But know very well the tools and methods…

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• 2011 Lean Start up Pillars (Ries, Oserwalder):business opportunity =
“hypothesis”; defining the essential building blocks for the proposed business
(key partners and resources, customer segments, revenue streams, etc.); agile;
“minimum viable product”
• From 2012. Lean + Agile=Leagility. Variuos experiences applied to specific
sectors, like manufacturing, health, finance.
• 2016. LATT Lean and Agile for TT. How to combine lean and agile for TT
activities
But know very well the tools and methods…

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Ex. Adopt Adaptive Planning Onion • LATT ( Lean & Agile
Technology Transfer
Approach)
• Lean Product Discovery (
Learning, Discovery, Minimize
Waste, Cycle Time)
Single Project
• Product Vision Maps
• Planning by Epics and top
Features
• Design Springs for PoC
• Prioritization for Minimum
Viable Product
• Walking Skeleton & Story
Mapping
Sprint
• Sprint Planning
with PO and
Team
Project
Release
Portfolio

12. 1
2
VIDEOSIGN
Project VIDEO SIGN
Elapsed: June-Nov 2016
.
The journalist can prove the
authorship without using
frustrating locking system.
The model is based on
Sharing Economy scenario
Blockchain
in Digital Media
Potential Advantages and
Motivation
• Cross site infrastructure
• Sharing Economy model
• Register is trusted by “users”
by definition
• Low cost of implementation
and maintenance
• Country-independent
Blockchain can be used in the digital news for
proof of publishing.
1. Login 2. Generate VideoSign
Check
3a. Video Inserted in Chain
3b. Video Information retrieved
Register
Retrieve
By applying advanced blockchain framework, we arrived at a Proof of Publishing PoC
based on smart contract logics.
Sustainability
Innovation
Fund

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Exploratory work
-Need for developing a basic core con competences/skills- learn to learn??
- How to Maximize ROI in R&D? How to reduce risk?
Blockchain Lab s as one of a KIND
Is it not possible
to do innovation
and applied
research without
agile mindset

14. Learn by micro-experimenting
Find your motivation beyond the
hype
Define short “stories” about
specific issues by asking what, why,
for whom, how and when
Look for a potential opportunity to
experiment in small local contexts
Develop your small prototypes
and do a lot of retrospectives to
learn as much as possible
14
copyright © 2018 Cefriel – All rights reserved
The resulted approach: from seeds to growth through a deep learning path
Understand the risks and opportunities
Define a vision for a specific product
or service
Develop working trials with minimum
valuable features
Understand potential impacts on
you context
Apply what you have learned
Define an original contextual
apporoach to differentiate your
proposal among other competitors.
…..
????
Seeds Early Stage Maturity
The blockchain topic is super hyped fast emerging and developing topic.
A future change of paradigm (why) is expected, so it is better to prepare by experimenting in small with local problems (how to start) and
then pass to trials in safe environment to come up with an original and impactful vision about what is blockchain for us and how can we
exploit it for the mature stage.
Reduce risk by
fast failing/fast
delivery

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Bibliography:
a) https://medium.com/our-insights/arriva-la-firma-dautore-per-i-video-online-89cbc48fc46d
b) https://medium.com/our-insights/il-laboratorio-blockchain-di-cefriel-657ffdf0fc98
c) https://medium.com/our-insights/blockchain/home
d) https://digitalnewsinitiative.com/dni-projects/readerwallet-decentralized-blockchain-based-digital-
wallet-micropayments-digital-publishing-ecosystem/
e) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwcGUWGxOKk
f) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl01jNadGPQ
g) B.Auerbach; R.McCarthy, Does agile + lean= Effective. An Investigative Study Journal of Computer
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h) S.Brad; A. Draghici, Lean agile technology transfer approach International Journal of Sustainable
Economy (IJSE), Vol. 8, No. 3, 2016
References

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THANK YOU!!
Nadia Fabrizio, Blockchain Expert, PMI
Trainer/Scrum Master
nadia.fabrizio@cefriel.com
Twitter @nadyfabri Skype:nadia.fabrizio
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