Baby Steps To Agility

Baby Steps to Agility
How to Grow Into Agile

Goals
A little about me
A little about Agile
Growing into Agile
Questions

About me
I want to deliver great software.
Almost 20 years experience in software
Experience managing a 200+ person program
Using Agile Methods since 2000.
Agile is a better way.

The Agile Manifesto
Agile Prefers
Individuals and interactions
Working Software
Customer collaboration
Responding to change
Over
Processes and tools
Comprehensive documentation
Contract negotiation
Following the plan

12 Agile Principles
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customerthrough early and continuous deliveryof valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Sitting up – Why Change?
Starting to Crawl - Pick Change
First Steps - Team focus and “buy-in”
Speaking in Sentences - Agile Reporting
Patience – Continuing to Change
Practice Development Milestones

Define the current state
Identify the problems
Write down the reasons for Change
Sitting Up

Product Company
Patches and Upgrades
Internal IT
Point Solutions
Professional Services
Working Software Quickly
How Does “The Business” Work

We don’t know when we are done.
We test functionality and it is not working in the build we give to the customer.
Our customer is constantly changing his mind.
How is this software supporting “the business”?
Some Problems

We are only going to work on things that are important to our customers.
We can guarantee delivery of the product on time with known quality.
We can clearly define what is in a release and what is not in a release.
We can report the outcome of our testing to a customer.
We can deliver important customer issues outside of a release.
How is this going to help us?

Build of the system that includes installation packages and automated test.
Iterative process for delivering.
Complete Tickets
Starting to Crawl

Build
Test
Report
What does the Build look like?

What does Iterative Development look like?

When is a Ticket Done
Replication of the issue or Requirements
Analysis and Review of Solution
Test Cases
Unit test
Implementation
Code Review
Verification
Documentation
Release for System Integration.

Have the Team Define Solution
Spend Time in a Dark Room with Power Point
Close the Feedback Loop
First Steps

Ticket process as defined by Team

What is Agile Development?
Agile is a broad set of principles for delivering software
Agile is based on the concept of teams delivering software where the business people are part of that team.
The same principals of ISO Standards and CMM are captured in Agile development practices.

What Agile is not.
Agile is not a rigid set of instructions.
Agile is not a silver bullet.
Agile is not anti-documentation.

Team Retrospective
Management Retrospective
Reporting on Actions
Circle the Ideas

Agile Performance Indicators
Define a Point
Quality
Speaking in Sentences

Velocity – How fast are we going?
Capacity – How much can we do?
Burn up / down - When are we going to finish?
Backlog – How much is there to do?
Burn rate – How much does it cost?
Progress – How are we doing on initiatives?
Agile Performance Indicators

Define a Point

Quality Pyramid

Patience

Questions

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Baby Steps To Agility

by Naresh Jain on Jan 28, 2010

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