Session 11 Agile versus Waterfall?

Which process do we use in our schools?

Possible ideas...

Kanban in the classroom  

an example of website: Kanban
http://leankit.com/learn/kanban/online-kanban-board/

Visualise the workflow in three columns on the board:

Things to be learned / Things we are learning/ Things we have learned

Another edition to the idea: story cards -  what the user wants and why? The story card is just enough to identify the requirement (Agile academy). Identify as many stakeholders as possible and get their ‘stories’. This means you get a much better design. There would need to be conversations between all these stakeholders to gain a better picture of what they require for the final design.

Practice at writing a story card: As a …….. I want to……. So that I can ………

We used trello.com to experience another type of story card/board.
Useful site: Trello board:  https://trello.com/

The agile team: plan, do, check, act.  (KATA) Consistent and continuous improvement.

Adapting and changing depending on the context.

Agile Leadership Style: facilitate, remove obstacles, encourage reflection, be a servant leader (provides support), create a safe environment, allow team to self-organise. An agile leader aim is to improve development over time.



http://www.integral.co.nz/about-us/agile-methodology/

The servant as a leader – developing people and works well when you are working well with self-organising teams. It works well when there are team members have different sets of skills that they can bring to the team.  Readings:  Robert Greenleaf – The servant as a leader (1970) 

We reviewed our earlier exercise at looking at how we plan in our school/team and reviewed in under the agile process. How could this be done better?