1. How Agile Solves Project Management Problems
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2.  Introductions
 Overview of Scrum and Kanban
 Missed Deadlines
 Scope Creep
 Quality
 Q&A
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3. 1. Prioritization*
2. Welcome Change*
3. Continuous Delivery*
4. Collaboration
5. Self Organization
6. Communication
7. Accountability
8. Rhythm*
9. Quality*
10. Simplicity
11. Emergent Designs*
12. Empiricism*
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4. Agile Methods
XP (12) Scrum (9) Kanban (3)
•Pair Programming
•Product Owner •Visualized workflow
•Planning Game
•ScrumMaster •Prioritized Tasks
•Test-driven
•Cross-functional Team •Limited WIP (Work in
Development
•Daily Scrum Progress)
•Whole Team
•Sprint Planning
•Continuous Integration
•Sprint Demo &
•Refactoring
Retrospective
•Small Releases
•Prioritized Backlog
•Coding Standards
•Time-boxed Sprints
•Collective Code
•Potentially Shippable
Ownership
each Sprint
•Simple Design
•System Metaphor
•Sustainable Pace
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5. Triple Constraints
Fixed Requirements Resources Time
Value
Driven
Plan
Driven
Estimated Resources Time Features
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6. Daily
Standup
2 Week
Iteration Iteration
Planning Demo, Review &
Meeting Retrospective
Product Tasks Potentially Shippable
Backlog Erin S Beierwaltes Product Increment
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7. Unknown work and underestimated effort
http://code.google.com/p/dniesign/ Erin S Beierwaltes & Todd Sheridan

8. Scaling Software Agility – Dean Leffingwell Erin S Beierwaltes & Todd Sheridan

9. What
happened
here?
Based on
average
velocity
Velocity = number of story points COMPLETED during the sprint
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10. Scope
Change
Scope
Change
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11.  Deliver Continuously
 Burnups/downs (% feature complete vs. %
work complete)
 Understand cycle time
 Adapt priorities and plan based on the
completion of features
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12. Communication between Business and Development
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13.  Get into teams of 2
 Choose a Product Manager and a Developer
 Developers leave the room
 Product Managers write a “design document”
for developers
 Words ONLY
 Developers come back in and try to follow
written instructions
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15.  Sit together
 Do not show the “developer” the picture
 Talk him through what to draw
 Do not draw for him or make gestures
 Words only
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16. Missed deadlines and unhappy customers
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17. "In preparing for battle, I have always found that
plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D Eisenhower
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18. Erin S Beierwaltes & Todd Sheridan
http://cnx.org/content/m14730/latest/

19. Priority Recipe Manager Prioritized Backlog Size Status
1 Personal Dashboard 5 Done
2 Most used ingredients dashboard widget 3 Done
3 List recipes 3 Done
4 Search recipes 5 Done
5 Add/Edit a recipe 8 In Sprint
6 Delete a recipe 3 In Sprint
7 List ingredients 3 In Sprint
8 Add/edit ingredient 8
9 Delete an ingredient 13
10 Email a recipe 21
11 List meals 13
12 Authenticate user 21
13 Add/Edit user accounts 13 Erin S Beierwaltes & Todd Sheridan

20. What
happened
here?
Based on
average
velocity
Velocity = number of story points COMPLETED during the sprint
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21.  Prioritized Backlog: Complete feature in
order of priority
 Release Burnup/down: Use progress of
completed features to adapt and estimate
completion
 Let the scope/date adapt if the business
requires it
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22. Underestimation, scope creep and last minute bug fixing
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25. Working
Software
People
Feedback
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26.  Reduce WIP (Timeboxing or WIP Limit)
 Complete fully functional features
 Use Velocity/Cycle Time
 Use Feedback Loops to adapt faster
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