Presentation at iOSDevUK 2015 about using Agile when building mobile apps for clients.

1. Agile Apps
How to do agile mobile development with clients

2. Who am I?
• Agile Project Manager for SPR Consulting
• Co-organizer of SecondConf for 4 years

3. What do we do?
• We make apps – for clients
• We use agile – with clients

6. What is Agile?
• Mindset, not a methodology
• Reaction to heavy processes
• Iteratively delivering value

7. Traditional/WaterfallAgile/MVP

8. Agile Manifesto
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

9. Agile = HIG
• Know the rules
• Know when to break them
• Know the risks and consequences of doing so

10. Mobile projects…
• Shorter timeframe
• Focused
• Higher cycles

11. Agile + Mobile =
• Risk mitigation
• Iterative development helps with turnover on OS and
Hardware
• Good process lets you focus on what you want to do

12. What do clients like?
• Scope and priority change without major overhead
• Regular, visible progress
• Adapt agile to work with the client

13. What does it look like?
• Define scope and cost up front, but…
• Client can change either by adding, removing or
reprioritizing stories.

14. Time and Materials
• Overall scope is agreed upon at the beginning
• We keep making changes and fixing bugs until the
client is happy (or runs out of money)

15. Fixed Bid
• Swap out stories as needed
• Manage acceptance criteria carefully
• Stricter bug definition

16. There are 2 kinds of clients…
• We are agile
• We are not agile (but we might like to be)

17. Chaos Wild West
Change
without
Consequences
By the
Book

18. Chaos
• Don’t trust the optimism
• Help them focus
• Lots of Project Management

19. Wild West
• Expect Resistance
• Introduce Discipline
• Support Good Practices

20. Change without Consequences
• Listen
• Capture information
• Estimate
• Conversation

21. By the Book
• How long are your sprints?
• Brush up on your agile methodologies
• Beware dogmatic process over actual agility

22. Agile you say?!?

23. Tell us more!
• Beware the secret second deliverable
• Plan and price accordingly

24. We just want the app
• Black box agile
• Plan for more traditional project management

25. Project Goals
• Deliver great software
• Make the client happy

26. Agile works with mobile because
• Flexibility
• Transparency
• Deliver more value sooner

27. Questions?

28. Amy Kinney
amy.kinney@spr.com
@amykinney
http://spr.com/agile-adoption-adopt-agile/
Thanks to SPR and the Mobile team for their support.