TechLink Community Seminar: Making IT Agile: Control vs Collaboration

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Improving the way we deliver software depends on the way we approach software development. Evolving an agile environment requires establishing Firm Foundations, and building incrementally to deliver real operational benefit as early as is practical. Although it is essential to be in control of a software project, it is vital to ensure transparency of work being performed, and have clear and continuous communication for teams. As such, terms such as ‘control’ and ‘collaboration’ can sound like competing principles, maybe like ‘waterfall’ and ‘agile’. In reality, in a working agile environment, control is not something imposed from outside, but is generated from within, through collaborative working practices. The nexus of collaboration encompasses the entire business context, and automatically produces the best possible result. All that is left is to monitor its success! Working with principles, enables keeping what is best, and continuously improving everything else.

Presenters

• Sibel Allinson, Senior Project Manager, University Information Services
• Nick Mattin, Head of Service Development, University Information Services
• Simon Redhead, Systems Development Manager

Members of the UIS Techlink scheme

Membership of the UIS Techlink scheme

Number of sessions: 1

Presentation followed by Q&As

One session of approximately one hour followed by light refreshments