Socialtext Distributed Agile Ross Mayfield Adina Levin Tracy Ruggles

Socialtext Distributed Agile Distributed agile is a trend At BarCamp and D-Camp a few years ago Last year at PCamp

Distributed agile is a trend

At BarCamp and D-Camp a few years ago

Last year at PCamp

Socialtext Distributed Agile

Socialtext Distributed Agile Why agile? Personal experience with waterfall 300 page prds 24 month product cycles product obsolete when released dev and pm mutual incomprehension Agile sounds like better way Small-a agile, not big-A agile Lots of war stories requiring beer

Why agile?

Personal experience with waterfall

300 page prds

24 month product cycles

product obsolete when released

dev and pm mutual incomprehension

Agile sounds like better way

Small-a agile, not big-A agile

Lots of war stories requiring beer

Socialtext Distributed Agile The basics 2 week iterations Hosted service and SAAS appliance Hosted every 2 weeks, appliance every month

The basics

2 week iterations

Hosted service and SAAS appliance

Hosted every 2 weeks, appliance every month

Anatomy of a story Anatomy of a story

Anatomy of a story

Anatomy of a Story

Anatomy of a Story

Anatomy of a Story

Anatomy of a Story Cross-functional discussion Real time teamwork

Cross-functional discussion

Real time teamwork

Anatomy of a story family How to do planning with agile Leadership team direction for year and quarter Stories fit into projects. Occasional focused planning a project level Occasional f2f and focus

How to do planning with agile

Leadership team direction for year and quarter

Stories fit into projects.

Occasional focused planning a project level

Occasional f2f and focus

Real Live Customers ” Customer feedback blog"

” Customer feedback blog"

Information radiators

Challenges - Teamwork “ The swarm" Started with multiple processes Changed to one process, one dev group Emotional challenges Can't fight and then play foosball, get beer Logistics Need to be sensitive to timezone differences or we'll miss people

“ The swarm"

Started with multiple processes

Changed to one process, one dev group

Emotional challenges

Can't fight and then play foosball, get beer

Logistics

Need to be sensitive to timezone differences or we'll miss people

Socialtext Agile Culture Learning... retrospect every iteration, what went well, what didn't, what can be improved JFDI.. if you have an idea for improvement, take the ball Transparency - code, design, planning, customer feedback, better in the open

Learning... retrospect every iteration, what went well, what didn't, what can be improved

JFDI.. if you have an idea for improvement, take the ball

Transparency - code, design, planning, customer feedback, better in the open

Outakes

Challenges - Design Harder to "whiteboard" ideas together voip and screen or vnc communicate that it's a brainstorming meeting and not tactical story definition Design patterns could do more to make it easier to add additional stories with design variants Usability testing Architecture Review stories in families Appoint architecture steward

Harder to "whiteboard" ideas together

voip and screen or vnc

communicate that it's a brainstorming meeting and not tactical story definition

Design patterns

could do more to make it easier to add additional stories with design variants

Usability testing

Architecture

Review stories in families

Appoint architecture steward

Socialtext Agile Development No code ownership (but some expertise) Source code control - cvs > subversion > git Iteration capacity based on on "yesterday's weather" Pair programming with voip and screen Standup 3x per week - what are you working on, where do you need help

No code ownership (but some expertise)

Source code control - cvs > subversion > git

Iteration capacity based on on "yesterday's weather"

Pair programming with voip and screen

Standup 3x per week - what are you working on, where do you need help

Socialtext Agile QA Release testing is a considered combination of automated and human testing with the goal of preventing unhappy experiences for our users. Story test cover expected behavior & corner cases As stories are finished, QA validates and raises concerns during the iteration. Browser based testing with selenium UI tests run 24/7 just like unit tests. Automated tests are maintained and always exercise a majority of the functions exposed to the user. Exploratory testing Lightweight performance analysis

Release testing is a considered combination of automated and human testing with the goal of preventing unhappy experiences for our users.

Story test cover expected behavior & corner cases

As stories are finished, QA validates and raises concerns during the iteration.

Browser based testing with selenium

UI tests run 24/7 just like unit tests.

Automated tests are maintained and always exercise a majority of the functions exposed to the user.

Exploratory testing

Lightweight performance analysis