Egg pushing the envelope

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Egg - pushing the envelope

• Sue Clarke

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Introduction

• Company history
• Culture
• Products and systems
• Approach
• Development methodology
• Summary
• QA

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Company history

• Sauna start-up story
• Prudential backing
• Consolidation
• Expansion

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Culture

• Clear Vision
• Customer experience
• People and energy
• JFDI
• Personal not e-mail
• Knowledge not position

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Products and systems

• Egg card
• Loans
• Insurance
• Mortgages

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Products and systems

• Legacy systems
• Leading edge technology
• Security emphasis
• Architecture
• Management

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Approach

• Strategy/ideas generation
• Product development
• Project management
• Benefits management
• Delivery life cycle
• Development options

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Agile egg

• Agile methodology XP subset
• Kent Beck and Smalltalk roots
• Adaptive not predictive approach
• Strong emphasis on testing
• Project life cycle surrounding development

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Agile development

• Change is expected and time is considered more
  important than functionality i.e. the customer
  must make trade offs.   
• The Customer directs development in timebox Big
  changes outside a timebox
• Customer can add/remove/change any requirement
• Requirement documented on cards as user stories
• Developers re-estimate factoring

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Agile development

• Peer review and pair programming multi-skilling
• Quality goals set as part of requirement
• Unit tests designed as part of requirement
  statement
• Parallel UAT while still developing
• Fit iterations and releases into rolling project
  plan

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Agile development

• Selecting the customer is key empowered,
  knowledgeable and a good communicator
• Clear benefits identified up front
• Change to achieve benefits clearly
  prioritised/understood

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Agile development

• Gets round the world moving on while waterfall
  method used adapts to environment
• User buy in to solution is total
• Documentation kept lean and mean
• Supports step change user training and education
  in small chunks
• Reduces risk

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Summary

• Proactive new product development
• Agile people and methodologies
• Technology watch on systems
• Empowerment of people

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Egg - pushing the envelope

• Any questions?