A short introduction to Agile Management for technology firms

1. INTRODUCTION TO AGILE
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2. ABOUT ME
Software
Developer
Agile
Member
Team Lead
Agile
Advocate
SDLC
Implementer

3. AGILE MANIFESTO
 Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
 Working software over comprehensive documentation
 Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
 Responding to change over following a plan
Although there is value in the items on the right, we value items on the left more.

4. TEAMWORK

5. BASICS AND KEYWORDS
 Release
 Client deliverable
 Stories
 Work items required to complete the release
 Backlog
 Unfinished stories for the release
 Iterations
 The current stories picked to work on
 Standups
 Daily status from all
 Retrospective
 Group therapy?

6. RELEASE
 Planned
 Work required for completion is published
 Accepted by the team
 Scheduled
 Delivery estimate given by the delivery manager (or team)

7. STORIES
 Level of detail dependent on organizational delivery scheme
 Fixed-Price Contracting
 Variable-PriceConsulting (hourly or bulk hours)
 In-house development for retail sales
 In-house development for internal use
 Stories build your Backlog

8. BACKLOG

9. ITERATIONS
 Based on previous velocity

10. ITERATION
 Stories picked on backlog priority
 Get the hard stuff done first!
 Client dependencies
 Images and styling validation
 Publish the burn down
 The iteration is a commitment

11. STAND UP MEETINGS
 Must stand up
 No comfort allowed
 Only three topics allowed
1. What you completed yesterday
2. What you are completing today
3. What is blocking you (if anything)
#2 is a COMMITMENT

12. RETROSPECTIVES
 At the end of each iteration
 Good/Needs Work/Picked to Work on
 Continue/Stop/Should
 Everyone’s chance to change the process
 Make changes!

13. PREDICTIONS

14. PREDICTIONS 2

15. PREDICTIONS 3