March 26, 2012 6:00 PM. 60 attended.
Alec Sharp | Agile & Modelling (note earlier start!)
222 Exhibition St, Details signposted on the day (map)
Software Education is bringing Alec Sharp to Melbourne for a Masterclass in Business Process Management and he has kindly agreed to present to the Agile & Scrum meetup.
Alec is extremely informative and always entertaining. Come along and hear what he has to say about Modelling in an Agile world.
Summary below;
Agile, or something like it, had to emerge. Think about some of the alternatives – voluminous BRDs (Business Requirements Documents) with literally thousands of itemised (and useless!) requirements. Or excruciatingly detailed models, incomprehensible to mere mortals – even the people who built them.
Getting away from these approaches was a good and necessary move. But did the pendulum swing too far? Have we abandoned some modelling techniques that would be useful in an Agile environment, possibly making it even more Agile?
Some Agile teams think so, and have found that by using the right techniques, at the right level of detail, at the right time, they’re seeing real benefits – better engagement from their clients, and fewer iterations.
This presentation will describe a distinctive framework utilising four, interrelated perspectives - process workflow models, a unique form of use cases, business services, and business-friendly data models.
Special attention will be paid to providing guidelines and tips for making process and data modelling useful to Agile teams. Topics will include:
• Why use cases should be separated into use cases and business services
• How data models provide a great platform for discovering and understanding use cases and services
• How workflow models provide context for use cases, and help make sense of “epics”
• What does “just enough” modelling in an Agile environment look like?
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Kelsey van Haaster
I'm a little confused as to the start time, the ics file i added to my calendar indicates this is 6pm till 8pm, but the announcement says 7pm to 9pm. Can someone confirm that 7pm is the correct start time please.
Posted March 23 at 10:13 AM -
Craig W Brown
Kelsey - my calendar has 7pm. That's the start time. You might want to arrive a little earlier.
(Did someone just change the event start time?)Posted March 23 at 10:31 AM -
Craig W Brown
A reminder for everyone - if you are not going to make it please update this site so someone else can come along.
Posted March 23 at 10:32 AM -
Peta Howard
Hi, are there any spots still available (for myself)? Cheers.
Posted March 25 at 1:28 PM -
Teresa Simmermacher
Hi, I need to cancel out, so there should be two openings available in a minute.
Posted March 25 at 1:55 PM -
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Kaye Knight
We've had some drop-uots over the weekend - sp re-opened for business!
Posted March 26 at 8:41 AM -
Kaye Knight
and thankfully I don't rely on my accuracy as a typist for my living :-)
Posted March 26 at 8:42 AM -
Charlie Cheng
Hey, just found that it starts from 6PM? Is that right time? My calendar is 7PM.
Posted March 26 at 4:28 PM -
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Charlie Cheng
Sorry, it seems that there are something wrong for Meetup sending email to my inbox.
Posted March 26 at 5:11 PM -
Dane Lipscombe
Just wondering if the slides for this event were uploaded?
Posted March 27 at 10:13 AM -
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Kaye Knight
From Alec Sharp:
?A big "thank you" to all the Melbourne Agile Business Analysts who attended my Monday night presentation on "Agile and Modelling." I was really gratified by the turnout, the excellent questions and comments, and the general good cheer of the membership. I hope we can do this again on a future trip downunder. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact me - asharp@clariteq.com.?Posted March 28 at 2:03 PM -
Kaye Knight
For a copy of Alec's slides, email Danl@softed.com.
NOTE! Will only be available for 30 days and ONLY available to people who attended the session. DO NOT distribute otherwise - pls respect Alec's skill and effort in producing this material.Posted March 28 at 2:07 PM
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Kaye KnightCo-Organizer+1 guestEntertaining, informative and practical - what more could you ask for?
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Kevin BroughtonCo-OrganizerA great speaker full of enthusiasm - even made us work... Some great take-away's: PDD Post-it Driven Design; Complexity is for Novices, Simplicity is for Experts; Requirements don't exist until you ask, Who, What, Why, WHen, Where and How; and finally "You could do it that way, but it would be like eating rice with a steak knife, messy and someone will get hurt." In all seriousness, the talk presented a very well balanced set of experience, industry stuff and the pragmatic approach to simply getting things done. I'm even tempted to buy the book - did anyone get him drunk enough to write an update?
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Dean Bakker+1 guestAlec's concepts and presentation resonated with me a lot. He identified and articulated a lot of issues, that I see, development teams repeat over and over again. Very impressed.
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RomeshVery informative and enjoyable. A lot of information for a kick-start into understanding modelling.
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