For the past year, the Institutional Analytics \u00a0(IA) team has been working as an agile development team-but what does that mean? The key feature of agile is incremental, value driven delivery. \u00a0Currently, new code can be deployed in test each week with planned production moves every four weeks. This approach \u00a0gives clients new features incrementally as opposed to a big delivery of a system at the end of a project.<\/p>\n
How does the team do that? There are a lot of moving pieces that are involved in the process.<\/p>\n
A critical factor in agile is the high level of client engagement and partnership. The team is most successful when the product owner (primary client and decision maker) is available to work on the project 50% of their work time primarily in face to face settings. That\u2019s a large commitment of time but without the commitment, agile is not possible. \u00a0Providing demos to the product owner early and throughout development provides confirmation we\u2019re on the right track or we\u2019re not on the right track and can make corrections quickly (fail fast).<\/p>\n
The team and the clients meet daily for a 15 minute stand up meeting (we actually sit down for the meeting) to review issues, priorities and what is the focus of the day. This keeps the team on the same page and issues can be addressed quickly.<\/p>\n
A third component is that we focus on the next most valuable task. While everyone on the team has a primary expertise, people often work on tasks outside of their area of focus. This keeps the project moving forward and provides learning opportunities in IA.<\/p>\n
Lastly, we work as a team. It\u2019s normal to find most, if not all of the team in Hoyt 313 working together and our definition of \u2018team\u2019 includes the client. \u00a0The clients (especially the product owner) spend a great deal of time in the war room too! Ideas can be shared, questions answered and feedback given very quickly-but the room can also be very quiet as people work on their tasks.<\/p>\n
Do we have agile all figured out? Not at all! But we do know it\u2019s helping us work more efficiently and to deliver applications that meet the clients needs. The team is currently discussing how to deliver concurrent multiple projects faster.<\/p>\n
Questions? Stop by or attend a stand up meeting! We meet at 8:15 and 8:35 daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the past year, the Institutional Analytics \u00a0(IA) team has been working as an agile development team-but what does that mean? The key feature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-we-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}