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Alternatives to Go Agile / Transparency
1. These presentation series are subjected
to explore the alternative yields of
Agile processes besides the well known
ones; Managing Changing Priorities,
better Time to Market, Higher Quality...
The Scrum framework mostly considered
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2. Alternatives to Go Agile
Transparency
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4. Commonality #1
- PM(Project Manager): Hi Adam, How long will ___ take, what do you think?
Developer thinks: I’m very busy now and he’ll probably add more work. This one at
least will take 2 days and I have a bunch of work to complete..
- Developer: About a week.
PM thinks: You think so, I’ll take it as 1,5 or 2 weeks to guarantee.
- PM: Thanks Adam. I’ll update the plan with this feedback.
Developer thinks: Now I can delay some of these, too.
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5. Commonality #1
The costs get higher for each
level as we go up in a vertically
organized hierarchy
PY
X2
BA
X2
Dev
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6. Commonality #2
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7. Commonality #3
- Customer: Hi Alex, how is the project getting on? We have 4 months and the
market is very aggressive nowadays.
- PM: We’ve completed 50% as the architecture got clear! We just have coding
and testing to be completed.
Customer thinks: They told us the same for the previous project but it stayed at
95% for 3 months. Hopefully they’ve learned from that...
- Customer: Excellent! We’ll break away if we can go live on time.
- PM: We’re sure that we’re on track, don’t worry...
Traceability
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8. Commonality #4
- Developer A: We just have few weeks to test ____ module.
- Developer B: And we haven’t done any refactoring, we’re too slow.
- Developer A: We have to speed up now, then we focus on quality.
- Developer B: Good idea, otherwise we’ll not be able hit it...
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9. Commonality #4
- Developer A: We just have few weeks to test ____ module.
- Developer B: And we haven’t done any refactoring, we’re behind the schedule.
- Developer A: We have to speed up now, then we focus on quality.
- Developer B: Good idea, otherwise we’ll not be able hit it...
It’s very hard to focus on quality later as the new
emergent work arrives all the time
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10. Commonality #4
Reduced quality results in increased
TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
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11. Commonality #4
Reduced quality results in increased
TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
All of the stakeholders should be informed about
quality
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12. Commonality #4
Reduced quality results with increased
TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
All of the stakeholders should be informed about
quality
http://benscheirman.com/2007/10/dont-make-squirrel-burgers
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13. The probability of risk of error increases
as the true information delivery and
transparency decrease
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14. The probability of risk of error increases
as the true information and
transparency decreases
Probability of Risk of Error
True information/Information Transparency
Ahmet Akdağ 2012
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15. People can’t have enough time to do the
job when they focus giving transparent
information via expensive tools which
also adds another level to complexity
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16. Agile Solution?
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17. All of the stakeholders are at the same
level of knowledge with continuous
delivery of working software
Traceability
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18. Estimation and planning gets better as
the planning is done by considering the
past performance, not by considering
“the most likely scenario”
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19. All of the stakeholders committed to the
project has common definitions which
creates a transparent ground to
communicate
(Definition of Done)
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20. Progress information is shared with
stakeholders via frequent efficient
meetings
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21. Everyone involved in the project can
access easily to the project information
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22. Everyone involved in the project can
access easily to the project information
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23. Stakeholders do not need to buy a tool
or derange people working on the
project to get information about the
progress of the project
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24. Transparency is enhanced
with
flat hierarchy and less of roles
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25. Agile processes
enhance
transparency and traceability
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26. VersionOne
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27. VersionOne
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28. Agile processes that brings transparency
in are the universal remedy to deliver
up-to-date, high quality software products
Over
80.000
IT
projects
Standish Group
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29. www.acm-software.com
@ACMSoftware
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