Agility and Innovation Innovation and Agility

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Agility and InnovationInnovation and Agility

• Simon Marsden

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Innovation

• Introducing something new
• Solve a problem
• Radical or incremental
• Continuous improvementculture

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Agility

• moving quickly and lightly
• ease, nimbleness, low impact

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Why

• Take advantage of new ideas and new technologies
• Competitive advantage - Effectiveness
• Does IT Matter Nicholas Carr

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Some other reasons why

• Do my stuff now
• Frustration with perceived slowness
• Fear of being left behind
• It sounds good

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Innovation - Agility
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IS gets told

• No compromise on scope
• We want it never to break
• We need it to work for everyone
• We want minimal admin
• Stop changing stuff
• Boys and toys
• And be agile and innovative

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Where or who

• Who are the thought leaders
• Where is the need

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Product management
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How can we be more agile

• Re- Use learn from others
• Use other peoples stuff
• In house
• Open source
• Package
• Small is beautiful
• Mythical man month
• Encourage people
• to do
• to tell

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Discovery and Sharing

• Balance between doing and bringing others aboard
• Strategies
• IT Strategy and Information Architecture
• Planning Processes
• Standards
• everyone wants their standards
• code libraries
• Documentation
• Dont need a lot if it is small
• Project web site
• SOA Registry
• Events

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What Tech Apps Uses

• SOA WS
• Code Java and Cold Fusion
• RDBMS Oracle, MySQL SQLserver
• Web/App server Apache and Tomcat
• Authentication SSL/EASE (Michigan Cosign)
• Avoid IP based restrictions

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Wiki Exemplar

• People using wikis since around 2004/5
• November 07 start of central service
• 235 spaces
• More than one a day and still accelerating
• Media wiki / PHP wiki / Twiki / Confluence