Agile Basics
Alexey Maslov
amaslov@gmail.com
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Bio
• Ideas?
• Architecture Director at GlobalLogic
• Founder & CTO of BrightSide Software:
Nuospace (http://www.nuospace.com)
Clienteq (http://www.clienteq.com)
• Founder of SofAge Agile Consultancy
• JUG Ukraine coordinator
• Speaker @ JUG Ukraine and AgileUkraine
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Agenda
• Why Agile? (15 mins)
• Popular implementations (5 mins)
• The landscape (5 mins)
• Q&A (15 mins)
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Why Agile?
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Agile Adoption
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How to get there?
?
B
Planned
Agile
A
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Why do we miss?
• Extremely hard to correctly identify all the needs
up-front
• Communication is brittle
• Almost impossible to design everything in advance
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The solution
• Release high quality working software every several
weeks
• Ask for feedback, change the software accordingly
• Collaborate all the time with the customer & inside
the team
• Simplicity
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How it works
Small releases
• Continuous integration
• Automated testing
• Short-term design (YAGNI)
• Refactoring
Communication
• Customer as part of the team
• Planning meetings
• Stand-up meetings
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Popular implementations
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SCRUM
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Extreme Programming
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The landscape
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Agile Usage
Dr. Dobbs Journal & Scott Ambler Survey (March 2007)
http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileMarch2007.html
• 69% are doing one or more agile projects
• 24% not yet started believed to do so within the next
year
• 44% indicated a 90%+ success rate at agile
projects, 33% indicated between 75 and 90%
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Agile Usage (cont’d)
Forrester Survey (September 2006)
www.thoughtworks.com/pdfs/forrester_truth_about_agile.pdf
• 17% of North American and European Enterprises
use Agile
• Another 29% of respondents are aware of Agile
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Want some more info?
• On Agile
• On SCRUM
• On XP
• Ukrainian Agile Developers Group
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Thank you!
Q&A
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