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agile: beyond code

Software

Teams

Practices

Products

Business

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digital agile communities

#digital #agile #community

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agile community – collaborative networks

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knowledge, experience, understanding of systems, expert in doing, designs and builds, comfortable with data, business smart, competitive smart, user smart, new ideas, new perspective, curious creative, questioning, overbearing, risky creative, not afraid to fail, self directed, can ignore direction, open creative, collaborative, thorough, communicative, funny, charismatic…

“how google works”

the Smart Creative

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61% Jobs Growth Truro & Redruth3rd fastest growing cluster in UK

Plymouth in 8th with 33% growth

versus17% UK average growthtechnation 2017

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why agile?

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Shared / common purpose

Self organising and managing

Outcome driven – resourced by value creation

Focused on purpose and value creation

Open and collaborative

Innovative and test driven approach

Collaborative networks

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digital agile communities

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businesses, professionals, educators, teachers, students, volunteers

committed to helping develop the tech sector and community in Cornwall

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community of interest

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www.softwarecornwall.org

@swcornwall

Recruitment and Careers Development

Visibility and awareness of community

Skills and Knowledge transfer

Collaboration and Networking

Business Development and Support

Infrastructure and Environment

shared interests

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Lack of students taking computer science as an option

Skills learnt in courses not relevant to local companies

Lack of awareness of career opportunities

Fix the broken pipeline

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test driven development

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building agile communities

VALUE

ACTIONSRESOURCES

MVPMINIMUM

VIABLE PRODUCT

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continuous delivery and improvement

Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint

validate and deliver value to gain funding and scale

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test driven

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TecademySupporting our teachers

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Tech Jam2nd Saturday every month

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Connect EventsMeet our Community

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awareness

career fairs

online / social media

word of mouth

engagement

code clubs

tech jams

missions

self-learning

learning

meetups

college/uni

programmes

tecademy

summer huddle

employment

apprenticeships

graduates

freelance entrepreneurs

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Redefining ‘active in the community’

Direct and indirect benefits

Impact on internal culture for teams

Value of connecting with wider community

Being agile…

digital agile community at work?

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AGILE TEAMS

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