Statistics New Zealand is Agile Continued Implementation of AGILE Process at Statistics NZ May 2011

Content Problem Innovation Benefits Challenges Lessons Learned 2

SDLC process itself seen as a waterfall process Hard to complete and obtain approval for software requirements (“analysis paralysis”) Very difficult to change requirements to reflect new findings Long learning curve for all involved parties Business confidence was diminishing and morale in IT was low SDLC Challenges 3

4 Agile SCRUM Process - Complete Change

Innovation AGILE initiative started in development team in Christchurch in a small project (Introduction of Selective Editing into Overseas Trade). It was soon expanded to projects such as Population Census 2011, Better Economic Statistics (BESt) and Business ToolBox. 5

Benefits Transparency Collaboration and Communication Regular Feedback Improved Morale 6

New Challenges Alignment of AGILE method with the corporate business planning processes. Impact on testing and business analysis Impact on infrastructure services Cultural change in IT and business teams Deployments through environments Team co-location 7

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AGILE Business As Usual 10

Summary The AGILE SDLC is our primary method for software delivery. It is used by 4 teams in Christchurch, 3 teams in Wellington and 1 team in Auckland. AGILE Community of Practise (CoP). Most important: we have delivered all our IT projects successfully when using AGILE SDLC. 11

Questions? "Everyone openly communicates their progress" "The AGILE framework is "well set up to deal with changes" "You never lose sight of the end goal" "Constantly having to prioritise"... "have to make the hard calls“ "I do love it“…(feedback from business units) 12