Agile is natural fit for mobile application development, an independent consultant, Avienaash Shiralige at Endeavour's Regional Mobility Conference - India. To know about how Endeavour is different from other mobility companies, visit: http://www.techendeavour.com/our-value-add

1. Facilitator: Avienaash Shiralige
If you're not agile, you're not mobile
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2. Who Am I – Avienaash Shiralige
• 16+ years experience in IT Product &
Service companies in various leadership
roles
• Agile Transformation Consultant, Workshop
Facilitator, Trainer & Agile Coach
• I share my opinions and experiences on my
blog: http://www.agilebuddha.com
• Consulting clients in Australia, Europe, US
and India
• Agile, Scrum, XP are my expertise areas
• I conduct Agile Coaching Workshops on
Scrum Basic, Advanced, Distributed Scrum,
Scrum Product Owner, Agile for
Management
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3. The Right Process Produces the Right
Results.
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4. Agile - Natural Fit to Mobile Development
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5. Agile Sprints – Support Mobile App
Update Model
1. Download, Install and Using the app during development
sprints and post release process very similar.......
2. Creates nice rhythm of sprints and releases.
3. Responsive to technology changes.
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6. Agile Increases Reliability and Leads To
Continues Use of Apps
1. Mobile apps less tolerant to crashes
and errors
2. Multiple cycles of testing and quality
assurance helps team build-in more
quality
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7. Enables Thoughtful User Experience
1. Mobile have restriction in size of the apps Sprint model helps to experiment with
2. App can not take couple of minute to options and adjust the design and
download features of the app in such a way that the
3. Upfront restriction on application data user experience is quick, smooth and
downloadable and stored locally seamless.
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8. Mobile Apps Breathes Agile Simplicity
Principle
“Innovation is NOT about saying yes to
everything, it’s about saying NO to all but the
20% most crucial features.” – STEVE JOBS
Often
16%
Sometimes
You can achieve simplicity by creatively
Rarely 19% filtering features, focusing only on core
product features – its essence.
Never 45%
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9. Summarise….
Mobile apps are different from other non-mobile applications in significant ways.
1.Need to have a small footprint and download
2.Update quickly and smoothly
3.Seamlessly interact with back-end servers when needed
4.Error free and fast
This state can only be achieved with several changes and adjustments along the way.
The sprints, enhanced quality assurance, multiple test cycles, frequent customer
involvement provide all of the necessary ingredients for mobile apps to get there.
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10. How to Execute Large Projects Agile Way
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11. 3 Pillars of Enterprise Agile Team
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12. Large Agile Team Foundation Is: Seamless and
Honest Communication.

13. Good Practice – 1: ONE Product Backlog
Feature A
Feature B
Feature C
Feature D
Feature E
Feature F
Feature G
Feature H
Feature I
Feature J
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Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional
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14. Good Practice – 2: Product Owner Team
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Chief Product Owner
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Team A Team B Team C Team D Team E
Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional Cross functional
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15. Good Practice – 3: Team Structure
Traditional Silos Customer PM BA
BA
Analysts
Designer
Designers
Developer
Developer
Developer
Developer
Devs
Tester
Tester
Testers
Release
The Core Project Manager The Extended Team
Team ideally can contain many
consists of 5-9 Architect
BA /
Program
Manager additional
dedicated members Designer
Tester
BA members, each
(7 +/- 2). playing an
Developer /
Core Prod.
important role, but
Risk SM
Assessor BA
Team they are typically
(EXAMPLE) not dedicated to the
Developer Tester
Product
effort.
Tech Owner
Security
Ops
Business
Sponsor
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16. Good Practice - 4: Scrum-of-Scrums
PO € € Chief PO
€ €€ € Architect
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Scrum of Scrums
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Team
€B
Team
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Team
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Team
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Team
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17. Good Practice - 5: Scrum of Scrum-of-Scrums
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Product Owner
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Chief PO
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Architect
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CXO
Architect Owner
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ScrumMaster
Scrum of Scrum-of-Scrums
Scrum-of-Scrums Scrum-of-Scrums
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Team C €D €E
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Team B
Team
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Team
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18. Good Practice - 5: Distributed Daily Scrum
Models
UK India
Isolated Scrum Teams
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Independent Daily Scrums
Independent Daily Scrums
Daily Scrum Daily Scrum
Distributed Scrum of
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Scrums
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Regular Scrum of Scrums
Regular Scrum of Scrums
Integrated Scrum Team
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Daily Scrum
Team members split across locations
Team members split across locations
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19. Good Practice - 6: Effectively Using Overlapping
Hours
Local standup
Code Commit
India
9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00
TIME LINE
9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00
Daily Joint Activities for
Offshore and Onsite Teams
UK
Code Commit
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20. Good Practice - 6: Effectively Using Overlapping
Hours
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21. Good Practice - 7: Features Teams Over
Component Teams
Feature Feature Feature
Team A Team B Team C
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Presentation / User Interface
Business Logic / Services
Database / Integration

22. Good Practice - 8: Product Owner Proxy
Proxy Product Owner

23. Good Practice - 9: Sprint Scheduling

24. Good Practice - 10: Community of Practice

25. Health Check for Agile CXO?
Agile isn’t just aadevelopment issue, it applies to the entire organization. If the
Agile isn’t just development issue, it applies to the entire organization. If the
development team becomes Agile, but Product Management doesn’t then they will
development team becomes Agile, but Product Management doesn’t then they will
hinder the development team.
hinder the development team.
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26. Thank You

27. Contact Me – Avienaash Shiralige
• I share my opinions and experiences on my blog:
http://www.agilebuddha.com
• Email: avienaash@gmail.com
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