Agile starter kit

Agile Starter Kit
Gil Zilberfeld

Agile… is big
Different Methodologies
Scrum certification
Scrum master
Professional scrum developer
XP practices

Change is hard
The organization
Peers
Where to start?

You can start now
Small steps, small victories
Make your own way
Forget about “how agile you are”
Concentrate on actions

The challenge
You control only yourself
And that’s hard byitself
People don’t like change
And you may find some friends

What not to do!
Tell everyone you’re going agile
If you think nobody listened before
Proclaim you’re better than the other peons
Of course you are
Go whole hog

Before you start
Identify the coalition
If possible, find a running mate
Identify the opposition
Need to handle them with care and affection
What matters to them?
Help them achieve it

Being agile
Shortening the feedback loop
Communication
What’s happening
Visibility
How are we doing?
Improvement
How can we do things better?

Be Nice!

Communication
Stand-ups
2nd best – talk with peers
And other managers
Also with marketing people

Visibility
Whiteboard of sticky notes
Planned, in progress, done
2nd best: publish successes
Don’t: warn all the time

Visibility
Build server
2nd best: Integrate often

Visibility – Unit Tests
Check-in your test code
Automated unit tests running
2nd best: Manually run your unit tests

Improvement
Code review
Pair programming
2ndbest: Work on bugs together

Summary
Do what works
Get more people on board
Be nice!

Questions?
gilz@typemock.com
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Agile starter kit

by Gil Zilberfeld on Dec 16, 2010

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