Intro to Agile Practices and Values

Agile Practices & Values July 2010 Arin Sime

Agile attempts to prevent … Where is my product? Late?!? What in the world are you working on? That’s not how I thought it was going to work! Your customer saying: That’s not in the specs…. Umm… we’re gonna be late…. It works on my machine…. I would have been done, but... Your dev team saying:

The traditional way is … “ Plan Driven methods are generally considered the traditional way to develop software. Based on concepts drawn from the mainline engineering fields, these methods approach development in a requirements/design/build paradigm with standard, well- defined processes that organizations improve continuously. ”

This often leads to… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Core Practices of Agile Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. AgileManifesto.org

It’s all about the Iteration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],From “Scrum in 5 Minutes”, by Softhouse. Available at: www.softhouse.se/Uploades/Scrum_eng_webb.pdf

The Art of the Daily Standup ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Scrum Planning Poker ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Agile Retrospectives ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Kanban Board www.infoq.com/articles/agile-kanban-boards

Niko-niko calendar (smileys) www.infoq.com/articles/agile-kanban-boards

Requirements == User Stories? www.infoq.com/articles/agile-kanban-boards http://thesherpaproject.com/2009/04/09/user-stories-for-user-experience/ Well, sort of…

Other eXtreme Programming Practices Pair Programming Test Driven Development (TDD) & Continuous Integration (CI)

Is the ROI of Agile for real? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Pop Quiz – Identify Agile Practices Stand up Remote team Iteration Goals User Stories Product Owner Shared workspace CI Server Burndown

When is Agile best? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The Stacey Diagram, from Ralph Stacey

An Agile Team is … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Agile can’t fix everything … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],But when done right, Agile does expose and discourage these problems

The most common Agile mistakes “ Sure, we’re Agile. We do stand ups.” “ Oh, I already think we’re Agile enough.” [When in fact they are just in complete chaos & anarchy.] #1 #2

12 ideas for selling Agile … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],We’ll just focus on a few in coming slides

Finding a champion ,[object Object],[object Object],#1

Agile combats common IT failures ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: Prof. R. Ryan Nelson, University of Virginia. As published in MIS Quarterly Executive, “IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices”, June 2007 #2

Sneak it in ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],#3

Agile Project Management Office ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],#4

Let’s stay in touch! Arin Sime Senior Consultant Agile Lead, Solr search Dev and Process Consulting 434 996 5226 [email_address] www.o19s.com/blog www.twitter.com/ArinSime www.linkedin.com/in/arinsime

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