Today I gave a presentation to the IT managers at my workplace about the benefits of agile software development. We recently completed a large 12 month project, and in retrospect a lot of the things felt unnecessarily difficult.

I figured we needed to look at a way to get the business regularly involved with projects that we work on, and become an active part of the way the software develops. Something like Scrum seems like a good fit.

Anyhow, here’s the presentation. Inspired by this weekend’s Oamaru Victorian Fete I’ve borrowed some of Dan Hillier’s brilliant illustrations. I hope he doesn’t mind.

Have you tried to move past waterfall at your workplace? Are you already working using an agile methodology? I’d be interested to hear your stories.