My talk at the Agile In Business Conference in Bang

1. Panch’Tantras from High Performing
Agile Development Teams
Yashasree Barve
August 8, 2012
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2. Panchtantra - Five Immortal Books
Tales of Learnt
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3. Is Agile Development REALLY Different?
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4. The Agile Development Panch’Tantras
Tantra
Tantra #3 Tantra
#2 #4
Tantra Tantra
#1 #5
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5. Tantra # 1 - Agile Architecture
Tantra
#1
Re-align Architect’s Role in Projects
Value of Sprint 0
Bring Big Picture Thinking to the Teams
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6. Agile Architects - More Involved
Architects’ Group at Enterprise Level
Agile Team
Agile Teams Agile Team
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7. Well Begun is Half Done - Sprint Zero
Help the Team to
Think through
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8. Bring Big Picture Thinking to the Team
Does the Acceptance
Criteria of the story cover
non functional requirements?
Any possibility to reuse any
available assets, or any reusable
asset that can be created?
Should we discuss the story with
other groups such as Infrastructure,
Or Support groups?
Does the team follow the
engineering practices?
Any scope for Automation?
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9. Tantra # 2 - Agile Design
Tantra
#2
Design Discussions every Sprint
Refactoring
Back to the Basics
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10. Design Discussions
Way for team Design
to come together,
together to review
think through Discuss and individually
debate design
approaches
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11. Refactoring
Why can’t you do it right
the first time?
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12. Back to the Basics
Learning and
Hackfests,
practicing the
Code Retreat,
basic
Group Coding
principles
SOLID
principles
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13. Tantra # 3 - Agile Development
Tantra
#3
Source Code Control
Caring for Code Quality
Software Craftsmanship
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14. Source Code Control
Collective Code
Ownership
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15. Product Scorecard Initiative
Treat Code as a Craft
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16. Tantra # 4 - Agile Testing
Tantra
#4
Automated Tests
Test Driven Development
Continuous Integration
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17. Eat, Sleep and Drink Automation
Automation
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18. Why Test Driven Development?
Start
Write a Failing Test
Refactor
Write a Code to
make Test Pass
Can’t think of more
Tests
Stop
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19. Continuous Integration
Fail Fast
Move Faster
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20. Tantra # 5 - Agile Support
Tantra
#5
Automated Deployments
Explore DevOps
Optimum Documentation
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21. Automate Deployments
How much time does it take
to take a one line change to
production?
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22. DevOps for us was Building Relationship
Face Time
Collaboration
• Involve in Scrum meetings
• Deploy/Debug/Test together
Knowledge Sharing
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23. Our Journey of Being Agile
2011
DevOps
2009 2008 2007
Engineering Realign
Practices Architect Group Waterfall
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24. Recapping the Panch’Tantras
Tantra
Tantra #3 Tantra
#2 #4
Tantra Tantra
#1 #5
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25. Questions?

26. Thank You