Keyword Agile Business
04
OCT
Delivering Agile in Government; Learning Commercial Sector Lessons
04 OCT 2011 | Agile Business Conference 2011 |Keynote at Agile Business Conference 2011
Overview
IndigoBlue's James Yoxall and Jerrett Myers from the Institute for Government (IfG) will present the key findings of the IfG’s report into Government IT, Systems Failure, and discuss the pilot projects, the issues identified and the proposed solutions. The presentation will then consider the wider issues for Agile adoption in Government and look to the experiences of the commercial sector for answers. Themes will include: procurement and Agile contracts; big problems don’t necessarily demand big solutions; governance; and balancing the tension between Agility and control. The presentation will conclude with a look to the future: what comes next for Government IT; and what this means for the Agile community.
Delivering real value to your business
Agile project management has developed in response to the widely experienced difficulties with the traditional "waterfall" project management approach where requirements are supposed to be completely defined before design, followed by implementation and finally testing. Agile instead manages via:
10
SEP
Agile in Practice - the Agile MD
10 SEP 2010 | Posted in agile business, agile practices | Author Ross JacksonObviously we're big fans and proponents of Agile in our projects, but we also strive to operate in an Agile manner in every aspect of our business lives - and as you'll have seen from some of our previous posts, also sometimes in our non-working lives, too!
So we're very proud of the fact that our own MD is especially Agile when it comes to arranging his daily schedule. He certainly has a lot of meetings, and fills a lot of his day with important activities; but at the heart of his routine is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.