Rachel Davies Agile Mashups

S Speaker: Rachel Davies www.agilexp.com

What’s this talk about? • Understanding industry context that’s useful to know when you are adopting agile. • What Agile teams are doing that might be hard to work out from the books.

Why does it matter? Because books, training and conferences talk about agile methods with labels like Scrum, XP, DSDM, etc. I’ll be talking about the form of Agile which I see teams actually do.

My experience? • XP practitioner since 2000. • Consulting agile coach since 2003. Coached teams at BBC, CODA, Egg, Lloyds TSB, Nokia, Orange, Roche, Screwfix, and many more. • Agile community work includes Agile Alliance board, Experience reports for Agile2007/2006, Agile2008 conference chair, Agile Business conference, BCS SPA, Retrospective Facilitators Gathering, Scrum Gathering open space facilitator, XPDays, XTC, etc.

Your experience?

Methodologists United! “I kicked off quot;The Lightweight Process Summitquot; with a 10 minute plea for a manifesto, and then watched with awe and glee as these people, with some deep philosophical differences, found themselves in fundamental agreement with the notion that what we shared in common was more important than our differences.” Bob Martin re: Agile Manifesto

Method Camps remain Scrum Crystal XP DSDM LEAN

Banging the Drum Keeping a method simple makes it easy to transmit and easy to understand. Agile methods can help you get started but you have to fill in the gaps.

What am I seeing teams do? • I work with Scrum teams who use XP practices like Velocity, Test-Driven Development and User Stories describe their Product Backlog. • I work with XP teams who use Burndown charts, Retrospectives and Daily Scrum format. • I work with Lean teams who use a mix of the above. • It seems a generic Agile mashups are emerging.

The 13th Practice? Sorry, No again! Work out new Agile practice gradually through Retrospectives

Teams create their own agile “mashups” Mashup Zone XP SCRUM Corporate Culture Agile Transition

How XP are you? Can you claim to be an XP team .. • if you don't use index cards? • if you don't write code test-first? • if you don't program in pairs? • if you don't sit together? • If you don’t have an onsite customer? It seems that some practices are more optional than others

How Scrum are you? Can you claim to be a Scrum team .. • if you don't have a Sprint Review? • if you don't deliver a Product Increment at the end of each Sprint? • if you don't have a Sprint Retrospective? • if you don't have a visible Sprint Burndown? • if you don't have a defined Sprint Goal? • if your Product Backlog is not prioritized? Maybe there’s a good reason why you don’t?

Typical Agile Practice List  Daily Scrum/Standup X Pair Programming  Iterations/Sprints X Product Increment  User Stories X Sit Together  Release Plans  Test-Driven Development  Velocity  Burndown Charts  Team boards  Retrospectives  Continuous Integration

Agile Roles

The Team Between 5 and 10 team members • Cross-functional including at least one tester • Self-organizing

The Truth Split the Customer (Product Owner) role The Truth works with support of committees, management, customers, sales people, but is the only person that makes decisions about priorities With a trusty sidekick …

The Voice of the Customer The Voice of the Customer is typically an analyst who works closely with the team to make sure that user stories and acceptance tests are consistent, valuable and useful.

Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master Responsible for: • Facilitating meetings • Reporting progress • Shielding the team • Working with the team to remove obstacles • Preparing the road ahead

Whole Team Current Iteration Future Iterations

Agile Cycle

Start from Ziffer (Zero Feature Iteration) -- Michael Hill Projects start with an Iteration Zero

Two Week Cycle D P E L D D D D D D D D M A E E E E E E E E O N V V V V V V V V R E E E E E E E E D E L L L L L L L L E T O O O O O O O O V R P P P P P P P P O Most teams set their iteration/sprint length at 2 weeks

Start the Day around the Board • Teams start the day with a Daily Standup by their Project Board using the Scrum question format. • The Project Board shows what the team are working on today and how much is left.

Release Cycle Releases I E E N X X T P T P T E O E O E Z R R R L L F N N N I I R A A A S S L H L H L Sprints/ Sprints/ Iterations Iterations

Conformity? • Scrum says “Inspect & Adapt” • Manifesto says “the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” • Your team will be different and that’s OK :-)

Agile Books • Use as source of ideas • Not “religious” texts • Read more than one!

Unified Agile v2.0? No, I’m not suggesting we need this. Project are too varied so we need loose Agile. The Agile Manifesto already serves the purpose of a framework.

Any Questions?

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