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Agile Firepower - Strategic Portfolio and Resource Management for Agile teams
- 1. December 27, 2019 Strategic Portfolio and Resource Management for Agile teams Agile Firepower Guillaume Marceau Director of Software Development
- 3. Hi! 1. What is this French accent I can’t quite place? 2. Will I be able to understand the talk despite it? 3. Why is software development hard?
- 4. Hi! 1. French Canadian accent 2. We will get scientific data 3. That is a very good question
- 5. Background
- 6. How do I let the CEO know that this project is impossible? cred. Jonathan Rasmusson, The Agile Samurai.
- 9. When is it going to be done?
- 13. UFO: Unforeseen Work due to Occlusion.
- 15. 96 tickets 79 tickets UFO = 1.21
- 19. I can’t decide. Can we do everything at the same time?
- 20. Firepower Tracking The project is not done yet because… • Implementation proceeded slowly or • We tried to do everything at once (10 projects assigned to a 5-devs team)
- 21. Focused Firepower n developers One quarter
- 22. Focused Firepower Project #1 Project #2 Project #4 Project #5 Project #6 Value delivered
- 23. Everything is #1 Project #1(f) Project #1(e) Project #1(d) Project #1(c) Project #1(b) Project #1(a) Value delivered?
- 24. Firepower Report
- 25. The Firepower Trick • Record which tickets are in flight • as well as who is working on which • You already have this information! • Jira + Stand up
- 28. Firepower: Resource Management In a given week… • If we work on 1 projects, it gets 100% of the firepower • If we work on 2 projects, they get 50% of the firepower • If we work on 4 projects, they get 25% of the firepower • If we work on 10 projects, they get 10% of the firepower • …
- 29. Firepower Report
- 30. Demo
- 31. Thank you! Questions? Guillaume Marceau gmarceau@brightpower.co m 4-clicks Feedback Survey: http://j.mp/ariel-firepower
Editor's Notes
- I love planes. That feeling as the machine takes into the air with elegance and ease. All the power delivered by the engine, and the extend of the trust that we put into these engine to take us into the air. That’s what software development feels to me. When my team is working well, writing awesome code, have a great time, having an impact. And of course releases feel like landing a plane. With calm confidence. On an engineering level, the task is really intricate, but the pilot’s training is so thorough, that all we see is professional control and ease. Do your releases feel like this? Does your team’s day-to-day feel like this?
- It’s a French Canadian access. I am from Montreal! I did my undergrad at McGill university, a long time ago, came to the states for grad school, was a research scientist for quite a few years. And now I make a living transforming teams to top-performance. We will get data – I will run a survey at the end of the talk. And we will get some data of whether any of this was intelligible, useful or interesting. That is a very good question.
- Sefaira / Body Labs / Whereat / Lilypad / Professional coaching / Bright Power There is a collection of very difficult questions that we encounter while doing software development.
- We have a financing deadline in 9 months. We have to show we can build something, that we are competent, that we can build something useful, hopefully sell a few, demonstrate traction. We have a square + circle situation, like in Apollo 13. The answer, don’t go to space in Apollo 13, you know what’s going to happen. At the beginning of the project, get enough confidence about the size of the effort, that we go look for something else to do. The spec is, we are going to do “stuff” The people tasked to raise the funding imagine a big splash project that will make the fundraising possible. The devs imagine something small enough to fit in the time available. Story mapping Do you know why they are called stories? Two rules: someone does something because they want something. The person goes on the blue postit, the action goes on the yellow post it. This is incredibly illuminating Break into ticket – even sized pieces of work S/M/L -- we did it with AA/A/9V batteries :-) but you have to convince the CEO! S/M/L with two teams, then demonstrate that the estimates agree
- Look, we all agree, I even have to math to prove it, there is a lot of work there.
- Survey, calibrating against recently closed ticket. Was this S/M/L? How long did it take? It’s very important that you do this, you are trying to work with the data that you already have. The process that generated the estimate is the same as the one that generated the calibration. Droggy developer, snatched out of their focus to come to some project planning. Except, for one big important difference For the calibration, all the surprises have already happened.
- But when you are here, you don’t know what is going to happen next. The tree are obscuring the forest. You have to account for that.
- You know the rest of forest is there, you just can’t see the individual tree, and you can’t be sure just how many.
- UFO: Unforeseen Work due to Occlusion.
- If you have any downstream plan, then 8 is the most important number on this page. In all likelihood, we will ship inside of 8 weeks, but you can’t bank on that.
- At Sefaira, the indecisive CEO, who always shows up at your desk with a new pet project idea that has to be done now At Bright Power, 10 departments that have no visibility on each other’s request. They just know their stuff sure is important.
- You need to be able to motivate your stakeholder to become more decisive – for their own The project is not done yet because… Implementation proceeded slowly or We tried to do everything at once good. Decisiveness in Software Product decision making is super hard. They need all the help we can give them. If your team is solid, it’s always going to be the second, so it is really is just a matter of providing the visibility and clarity of dignanostic.
- If you are contracting, then you are already punching hours. No problem. But with an internal team, getting people to punch time means pulling hair, and bad data.
- Dot product – I just love that I can use linear algebra in Excel Bool to int conversion Array formula In production, it’s implemented in Python. It fetches the list of tickets automatically from Jira and persists the data in mysql. This is a trick but it’s super important!! --- It saves you from a rebellions and it gives you better data
- If you are contracting, then you are already punching hours. No problem. But with an internal team, getting people to punch time means pulling hair, and bad data.