Delivering Policy with Business Agility

How do you deliver a big policy outcome that normally take 6 months when you only have weeks?
An early election was called and we faced having to develop two sets of a comprehensive policy documents — the red book (left-wing) and the blue book (right-wing) — to brief an incoming government in 8 weeks. We were caught by surprise, the normal lead time were gone, and news about policy commitments came faster from TV and social media than traditional internal sources. This was a non software team in the business area who hadn’t done Agile before however we felt given the time frames, it was the best way to approach for such a high profile project. How do you deliver a big policy outcome that normally take 6 months when you only have weeks?
View the presentation from Agile 2018, San Diego by Mia Horrigan and Matthew Hodgson.

About the author

Mia Horrigan

Mia is an experienced Business Transformation Leader, Senior Product and Program Manager and Enterprise Agile Coach with over 20 years senior executive experience leading and implementing software solutions, including digital transformations. Mia has been working with agile teams for over 15 years and is an experienced Product Manager, Delivery Manager and has been successful in delivering business outcomes through implementation of Agile/Scrum at team and enterprise level. MIA is also a certified Professional Scrum Trainer. Mia's key clients include Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Metcash, Australian Taxation Office, Dept of Industry, Innovation and Sciences , Clean Energy Regulator and Future Super. Mia has an MBA, a Bachelor of Commerce as well as Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile leadership certification as well as Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and PRINCE2 certification.