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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