The Evolution of Agile at Statistics

New Zealand

How our Agile evolution can be shared across Government agencies.

Presenters: Chanelle Becker & Joanne McGee

October 2013

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Introductions

Statistics 2020 Te Kāpehu Whetū

“How we're creating the Statistical System of the Future”

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Agile Maturity Journey

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Agile Pilot

in Census

2011.

20082008Use of

Scrum in

other

projects.

Positive

feedback

from teams

20092009

Agile spread

to other

teams in and

outside of

IT.

20102010Agile

accepted

within IT.

Formal training

plans

implemented.

20112011 Evolution into

Kanban and

other

variations.

Agile becomes

more

embedded.

20122012

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In the beginning………

5 Thanks Citi bank

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Early 2008: from bad to worse

WHAT did we need to do to change?

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The Stats:

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Feedback

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"The IT Team and

the Business Area worked as a team"

"A real sense of

engagement with the IT

team"

“Split locations a challenge”

"It's important to understand the whole culture"

"Next time I would try to get more involved in daily stand-

ups"

"The team have a great satisfaction

and sense of ownership"

"The Agile framework is "well set up to deal with

changes"

"Constantly having to

prioritise"... "have to make the hard calls"

"You never lose sight of

the end goal"

"What surprised me was the team

camaraderie".. "the team

bond better"

"OK, maybe we didn't get all the

bells and whistles, but..." "they were just nice to haves".

Feedback on our Process

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Communication up 87%

Delivering up 87%

Risk reduction up 87%

Team fun up 86%

High Level Statistics NZ Agile SDLC

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Each of the yellow boxes are shown in greater detail:

• giving the roles (who does what),

• order of execution (when to do it) and

• outcomes (what will be produced).

Agile Software Development Life Cycle

(IT Development Process)

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Concept

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Initiate

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Sprint Zero

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Agile

Development

(Sprint 1-n)

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Project Go

Live

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Project

Closure

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Support

Last step of Business Planning

Process

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Stats NZ E2E Enterprise Architecture

Blueprint

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Business Interviews 2010/11

Key Programmes /

Projects

1. BEST

2. SDDM

3. Redesign of the

Accommodation

Survey

4. Business Toolbox

5. Selective Editing

6. Implementation of

ANZSIC06

7. 2011 Census

Development

8. Info Share Project

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@ Stats Today

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• Agile is our primary method for delivery - used for 80% of our Programmes / projects

• Delivered all our IT projects

• Agile is being adopted by our business units

• Able to deliver to our strategic values

• Modernise the way we deliver “stuff”

Census of Populations

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Fun!!!

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Creative !!

What we’re doing now …

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Undertaking a maturity

assessment

Roadmap to take Stats NZ

to the next level

• Introduce Agile Coaching

• Continue to educate our organisation

• Focus on AOG opportunities

Our Agile Journey – where to next ??

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Agile Pilot

in Census

2011.

20082008Use of

Scrum in

other

projects.

Positive

feedback

from teams

20092009

Agile spread

to other

teams in and

outside of

IT.

20102010Agile

accepted

within IT.

Formal training

plans

implemented.

20112011 Evolution into

Kanban and

other

variations.

Agile becomes

more

embedded.

20122012

Start to share

Agile

externally

within

the wider

Government

sector

20132013

Long Term Vision

The Concept

Why the Government?

• Similar challenges

• Same mandate – collaborate

• We work for the same client

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