If you're pragmatic, you're practical and living in the real world. If you're agilist, you adapt easily. This is how we have adopted and evolved an agile methodology in practice so far @ Agilize Cloud Accounting (https://www.agilize.com.br).

1. THE
PRAGMATIC
AGILISTThiago Colares Chaves
SEMCOMP 17, Federal University of Bahia. Brazil

2. Hallo!
I’M THIAGO COLARES
Agile manager
Full stack developer
Open source
Co-founder @ Agilize Cloud Accounting
@thicolares

3. YOUR TEAM CAN
GET MORE DONE
BEFORE GROWING
TOO BIG

4. STORY

6. VALUES

7. PRACTICES
WITHOUT VALUES
BECOME ROUTINE

8. SPREAD THE VALUES
itemize
give purpose
make speeches
reinforce with context
be a model

10. “
The dev team
always miss
deadlines

11. WE DID NOT
MEET THE PLANNED HOURS
BELIEVE IN ESTIMATES
DEAL WITH SURPRISES WELL
HAVE SELF-ESTEEM

12. IMPACT > SPEED
INNOVATION > PREDICTABILITY
DELIVER VALUE > ARBITRARY DEADLINE

13. ISSUE TYPES

14. Story
Minimum software
increments that
delivers value to
the user.

15. Story
Chore
/tʃɔr/
Technical issues.
Pre-negotiated
sprint slots.

16. Chore
Task
Story
Small manual
activities.
Not a software
increment (yet).

17. Bug
Task
Chore
Story
Something
delivered is
broken.

18. Bug
SpikeTask
Chore
Story
Simple program to
explore solutions.
Inputs for estimation.

19. Spike
Design
spike
Bug
Task
Chore
Story
Create UI.
Plan UX.

20. Design
spike
Spike
Bug
Task
Chore
Story
Epic
Large Story.
Set of issues.

21. Design
spike
Spike
Bug
Task
Chore
Story
Epic
Un
knownNot yet classified
or understood.

22. Fix
Grooming
New value
Story
Bug
Chore
Spike
Design
spike
Epic
Un
known
Task

23. Story
Bug
Chore
Spike
Design
spike
Epic
Un
known
Task
We estimate
We log the
time spent

24. Story
Bug
Chore
Spike
Design
spike
Epic
Un
known
Task

25. STORY
POINTS

26. ESTIMATE
TIME EFFORT

27. 5h20min

28. ~8h
AMOUNT OF
WORK
+ COMPLEXITY
+ RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
+ INNOVATION

29. 2
STORY
POINT

30. 21 3 5 8
FREQUENT RARE

31. 21 3 5 8
2
3
1
3 2
3
1
3
2

32. DID IT TAKE LONGER
THAN ESTIMATED?
Learn from it. The Velocity will decrease.

33. DID IT TAKE LESS
THAN ESTIMATED?
Sweet! Learn from it. The Velocity will rise.

34. ESTIMATING

35. POSTPONE
CONE OF UNCERTAINTY

36. Completed stories
Average of the last three
completed sprints
Next sprint’s estimate:
Current sprint velocity
Incomplete stories

37. Forecast
Story points
Current
sprint

39. Forecast
Initial scope

40. Forecast

41. Forecast

42. Forecast
Work added

43. Forecast
Work removed

44. Forecast

45. Done

46. IN THE WILD
Work completed
Work remaining
Work added

48. “
The bug is still
occurng
Meta-slide :)

49. WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME
FIXING BUGS
SILLY AND RECURRING BUGS
STRUGGLING EVOLVING

50. RECOVERING FROM BUGS
> CONTROLLING THEM

51. BUG-ANTIFRAGILE
ARCHITECTURE

52. ● SANITY CHECKS
We can’t help ourselves
● IN-HOUSE TALKS
Every friday
● AUTOMATED TESTING DOJO
Open to the community
● KPI DASHBOARD
Geckoboard, Prometheus + Grafana

54. ● ERROR MONITORING SOFTWARE
Sentry, Rollbar
● CODE STANDARDIZATION
PSR Coding standard and Naming conventions
● UNIT TESTS
It became a habit
● CODE REVIEW
It’s not always, because we pair sometimes

55. ● CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
Remember Bamboo? He’s coming back. But maybe
as Jenkins or something else.

56. PEOPLE > PROCESSES

57. FEAR COURAGE

58. FRIENDLY
ENVIRONMENT

59. SHARED
OWNERSHIP

60. “
Inefficient communication.
Wasting too much time in
meetings

61. TRUST > CONTROL

62. CONTEXT
GENERATES
AUTONOMY

63. CONTROL AS
EXCEPTION

64. WIKI

65. 658 editions
Mutual collaboration
0% orders (just some nudges)
On their own initiative! The team asked for this slide
111 pages
In less than a year

66. Daily meeting
1.5 hour
2 week
24h
Planning meeting
1 day

68. Daily meeting
1.5 hour 30min
2 week
1 week
24h
Planning meeting
1 day 1h
Retrospective
meeting. 1h
Backlog grooming
(during the sprint)
Faster feedback
1-to-1 feedbacks.
15min
Criteria acceptance

69. ACCEPTANCE
CRITERIA
GIVEN-WHEN-THEN

70. GIVEN
Pre-conditions
Past tense. Passive voice
WHEN
Action to be tested (only one)
Present tense. Active voice
THEN
Changes expected after that action
Future tense. Passive voice

71. USER ADDS ITEM TO CART
GIVEN
I'm a logged-in User
And I visited the Item page
WHEN
I click "Add item to cart"
THEN
The quantity of items in my cart will go up
And my subtotal should increment
And the warehouse inventory should decrement

72. IMPACT > SPEED
INNOVATION > PREDICTABILITY
DELIVER VALUE > ARBITRARY DEADLINE
RECOVERING FROM BUGS > CONTROLLING THEM
PEOPLE > PROCESSES
TRUST > CONTROL

74. THANKS!
Thiago Colares
@thicolares