1. Hands on Agile Immersion
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2. Damon Poole
§ Chief Agilist, Eliassen Group’s Agile Practice
• Small to Large Scale Agile Transformations
• Unique Agile Training
§ Creator of multiple Jolt-award winning
products
§ 20 years of process improvement experience
§ Past President of Agile New England
§ Author of “DIY Agile Kickstart”
§ Founder and past CTO and CEO of AccuRev
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3. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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4. The
Agile
Methodology
A
Step
by
Step
Guide
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5. Agile Manifesto – Values and Principles
Done!
“Working
software
is
the
primary
measure
of
progress.”
Scrum?
Kanban?
XP?
?
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6. Agile Techniques Come From the Agile Community
Agile Manifesto Agile Community Agile Toolkit
Scrum
Kanban
XP
Continuous Integration
TDD
Etc.
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8. Oh!
This
is
different!
I
want
to
learn
MORE!
I
see
how
this
could
help!
Aha!
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9. Agile Development
Initial Backlog
Texting
Texting
Facebook IniGal
“Welcome
changing
requirements,
backlog
for
project
Facebook
Google+
Google+
to
integrate
applicaGon
even
late
in
development.
Agile
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
e-Mail with
social
media
processes
harness
change
for
the
e-Mail
customer's
competitive
advantage.”
Done
4 weeks Twitter
Texting Google+ Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Yammer
Higher
Higher
OpGons
Visibility
ROI
Quality
Faster
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10. Agile in Action
Product
“Customer
Mgmt
collaboration
over
contract
negotiation”
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Customers / Market
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11. Agile Scales Up
Product
Mgmt
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Customers / Market
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12. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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13. Silos by Role – Focus on Operational Efficiency
Specialization and cost reduction
BA’s / Project Architects Devs Testers
Product Managers
Managers
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14. Misaligned Goals
Functional ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Goals
Late,
Not
as
missing
Product
A
Product
B
relevant
as
scope
hoped
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15. Cross Functional Teams
Architect
Customer
Developer
Doc writer
Manager
Customer Proxy
Tester
Scrum Master
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16. One Solution: Organize around Business Value Delivery
Products, lines of business, and
maximizing business value
✔ Project
A
✔ Project
B
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17. Collocated Teams
“The
most
efBicient
and
effective
method
of
conveying
information
to
and
within
a
development
team
is
face-­‐to-­‐
face
conversation.”
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18. To The Extent That You Can
Cross
Single
funcGonal
Collocated
deliverable
“Individuals
and
interactions
over
process
and
tools”
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19. Customer Proxy (Product Owner)
Proxy
for
the
Facilitates
customer
/ user
story
market
wriGng
Customer Assesses
/ Market business
value
Is
available
to
the
team
most
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the
Gme
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20. Scrum Master
§ Agile process steward
§ Keeps things flowing smoothly
§ Schedules meetings
§ Focuses whole team on “getting to done”
§ Facilitates removal of impediments
§ Is not a manager
§ Is not a customer proxy
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21. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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22. User Story
Customer
Title
EsGmate
in
story
points
Traveller wants to 3
edit a booking so that
a change is reflected
Goal
Who
is
working
Tom on
it
§ Customer focused
§ Customer, customer proxy, scrum master, developer,
tester, and documenter can all understand them
§ Separates the “what” from the “how”
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23. Who is “The Customer?”
Market/Customers
Business Unit /
Product Mgmt.
Software
Development / IT
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24. Who is “The Customer?”
Market/Customers
“Business
people
and
developers
must
work
together
daily
throughout
the
project.”
Your offering
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25. Bill Wake’s “INVEST” Guidelines
§ Independent
• Aside from core functionality, doesn’t depend on other stories
§ Negotiable.
• A story is a conversation starter, not the end result
§ Valuable to the user, can be used directly
• “Implement Avatar api” has no value in and of itself
§ Estimable
• No research required, well understood
§ Small
§ Testable
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26. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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27. Managing Priorities
Priority
DefiniGon
0
Commi'ed
to
release
1
As
soon
as
possible
2
Important
3
Nice
to
have
4
Not
important
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28. Managing Priorities
Priority
TranslaGon
0
Maybe
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29. Managing Priorities
Priority
TranslaGon
0
Maybe
1
No
2
No
3
No
4
No
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30. Backlog
Traveller wants 5
Most Value to enter a
booking
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to see their
upcoming trips
Tom
Traveller wants 3
to edit a
booking
Tom
Traveller wants 1
to delete a
booking
Sue
Traveller wants 2
Product
to copy a
booking
Bob
Admin wants a 5
report of site-
wide activity
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to move a
booking
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to link to
cancel a
booking
Traveller wants 2
to link to on-
Least Value line check-in
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31. Negotiation Tool
Traveller wants 5
to enter a
“Responding
to
change
2 booking
Traveller wants
to e-mail an Bob
airline booking
Traveller wants 2
to see their
upcoming trips
over
following
a
plan”
Tom
Traveller wants 3
to edit a
booking
Tom
Release
Traveller wants 1
to delete a
booking
Sue
Traveller wants 2
to copy a
booking
Bob
Admin wants a 5
report of site-
wide activity
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to move a
booking
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to link to
cancel a
booking
Traveller wants 2
to link to on-
line check-in
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32. Deciding Where to Invest
Who wants to
make some
money?
A B
D
C
A B C D
Cost Value
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33. The Time Value of Money
Learning also has value
Value
A
B
D
C
Invested Time
here
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34. Splitting out the Gold
User wants… 8
“Yes!
I
need
that
and
can
use
it.”
8
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35. Splitting out the Gold
User wants… 3 User wants… 5
“Yes!
I
need
“Yes!
I
need
3 that
and
5 that
and
can
use
it.”
can
use
it.”
“Simplicity
-­‐-­‐
the
art
of
maximizing
the
amount
of
work
not
done
–
is
essential.”
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36. How long to dig a ditch with this?
1,000 ft = 1 day
5,000 ft, 5 times as much work, 5 days?
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37. How about with this!?
1,000 ft = 1 hour
5,000 ft, 5 times as much work, 5 hours?
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38. Story Points
§ Replace time-based estimates
§ Focus on “what” rather than “who”
§ Simplify planning
§ Measure the relative level of effort
§ Includes the entire effort to complete the
story
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39. Iterations
Traveller wants 5
to enter a
§ Releases are broken down into booking
Iteration 1
Bob
iterations
Traveller wants 2
to see their
upcoming trips
Tom
§ A small increment of work Traveller wants 3
to edit a
booking
Tom
§ A regular period of time Traveller wants 1
Release
to delete a
booking
Sue
§ Usually 1-4 weeks long Traveller wants 2
Iteration 2
to copy a
booking
Bob
§ Also called “sprints” Admin wants a 5
report of site-
wide activity
Bob
§ Each increment is “shippable” Traveller wants 2
to move a
booking
Bob
Traveller wants 2
to link to
cancel a
booking
Traveller wants 2
to link to on-
line check-in
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40. Velocity
Traveller wants 5
to enter awants 2
Traveller
booking
to see their
Traveller wants 3
Bob
upcoming trips
to edit a wants 1
Traveller
booking a Tom
to delete
Traveller wants 2
bookinga Tom
to copy
Admin wants a 5
booking site-
report of Sue
Traveller wants 2
wide activityBob
to move a
booking Bob
20 points Bob
2 weeks
Traveller wants 2
to link to wants 2
Traveller
cancel to on- 2
a
to linkowner
Hotel
booking
Points
line check-in 2
wants to check
Airline wants
usage data
to check usage 2
Car rental
Over
a
given
data
agency wants 5
associated
Seller wants to
to checkan ad 5
remove usage
data wants to
Seller
show an ad
with
DONE
period
of
Gme
40 points Sue
4 weeks
stories
Traveller wants 2
to e-mail a car
booking wants 2
Traveller
to e-mail an
Traveller wants 2
airline booking
to link to on-
line check-in 2
Traveller wants
to link to
Hotel owner
cancel a 2
wants to
booking check
Airline wants 2
usage data
to check usage
Car rental
data 2
agency wants 1
Traveller wants
to check usage 5
to delete a
Admin wants a
data
booking
report of site-
wide activity Sue
60 points Bob
6 weeks
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41. Iteration Velocity
25
20
Story Points
15
10
5
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Iterations (every 2 weeks)
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42. Release Planning
Traveller wants 5
Ok,
you
can
to enter awants 2
Traveller
booking
to see their
Traveller wants 3
have
these
Bob
upcoming trips
to edit a wants 1
Traveller
booking a Tom
to delete
Traveller wants 2
bookinga Tom
to copy
two
Admin wants a 5
booking site-
report of Sue
Traveller wants 2
wide activityBob
to move a
iteraGons
of
I
need
it
in
booking Bob
20 points Bob
2 weeks
work.
Traveller wants 2
to link to wants 2
Traveller
4
weeks!
cancel to on- 2
a
to linkowner
Hotel
booking
line check-in 2
wants to check
Airline wants
usage data
to check usage 2
Car rental
data
agency wants 5
Seller wants to
to checkan ad 5
remove usage
data wants to
Seller
show an ad
40 points Sue
4 weeks
Traveller wants 2
to e-mail a car
booking wants 2
Traveller
to e-mail an
Traveller wants 2
airline booking
to link to on-
line check-in 2
Traveller wants
to link to
Hotel owner
cancel a 2
wants to
booking check
Airline wants 2
usage data
to check usage
Car rental
data 2
agency wants 1
Traveller wants
to check usage 5
to delete a
Admin wants a
data
booking
report of site-
wide activity Sue
60 points Bob
6 weeks
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43. Release Planning
Traveller wants 5
to enter awants 2
Traveller
booking
to see their
Traveller wants 3
Bob
upcoming trips
to edit a wants 1
Traveller
booking a Tom
to delete
Traveller wants 2
bookinga Tom
to copy
Admin wants a 5
booking site-
report of Sue
Ok,
you
can
Traveller wants 2
wide activityBob
to move a
booking Bob
have
it
in
6
20 points Bob
2 weeks
Traveller wants 2
weeks.
to link to wants 2
Traveller
cancel to on- 2
a
to linkowner
Hotel
booking
line check-in 2
wants to check
Airline wants
usage data
to check usage 2
Car rental
data
agency wants 5
Seller wants to
to checkan ad 5
remove usage
data wants to
Seller
show an ad
40 points Sue
4 weeks
Traveller wants 2
to e-mail a car
booking wants 2
Traveller
to e-mail an
Traveller wants 2
airline booking
to link to on-
I
need
all
3
line check-in 2
Traveller wants
to link to
Hotel owner
cancel a 2
iteraGons!
wants to
booking check
Airline wants 2
usage data
to check usage
Car rental
data 2
agency wants 1
Traveller wants
to check usage 5
to delete a
Admin wants a
data
booking
report of site-
wide activity Sue
60 points Bob
6 weeks
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44. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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45. Retrospective – Looking in the Mirror
“At
regular
intervals,
the
team
reBlects
on
how
to
become
more
effective,
then
tunes
and
adjusts
its
behavior
accordingly.”
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46. Agile Game: Sprint Retrospective
§ You are going to re-run the simulation as a race
15 min
§ You need to improve!
§ Create three piles of index cards: “Good”, “Improve”,
“Ideas”
§ Everybody creates index cards, one thought per card
§ Discuss Good Improve Ideas
Customers Try to create
§ Produce action items loved this
iteration
New Scrum
Attend
meetings on
time
smaller
stories
Get an SCM
Master was
Better tool better
awesome! meetings for Agile
Velocity went overall
up
Iteration Invest in
Unit tests review was virtual
saved our too slow machines
butts
Bringing up
tough issues
Faster Automate
laptops release
helped a lot process
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47. Self-Organizing Teams
“Build
projects
around
motivated
individuals,
give
them
the
environment
and
support
they
need,
and
trust
them
to
get
the
job
done.
“The
best
architectures,
requirements,
and
designs
emerge
from
self-­‐organizing
teams”
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48. Agenda
§ Introduction
§ Overview of Agile
§ Cross Functional, Self-organized teams
§ User stories
§ Agile Planning
§ Agile Flow
§ Q&A
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49. Q&A
Everything you need to get started with Scrum.
Free, no strings.
Available at: damonpoole.blogspot.com
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