Delivering a win-win-win workforce
with Agile programming methods
Ron Lichty, Ron Lichty Consulting
www.RonLichty.com
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______________________________ * Addison Wesley, publisher, October 2012
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Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom*
* 300 in the book
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Ron Lichty, consultant & trainer in
Managing Software People & Teams
SOFTWEST
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“Doing What Matters for ICT Education”
• California Community College (CCC)
ICT Collaborative:
– enable students to meet ICT workforce needs
• Wins
– Students in demand in the workplace
– Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs
– Your ICT programs lauded
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Achieving Wins
• These three wins
– Students in demand in the workplace
– Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs
– Your ICT programs lauded
...cannot be achieved by teaching the “what” alone
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The Problems with Agile
• Too few practitioners
• Too many ingrained habits
• Agile practices are not easy
• Retooling programmers is tough
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Best Practices We Hire For
• Scrum
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Pair Programming
• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation
• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs
• Rapid Relative Estimation
• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally
– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning
• Emergent Design
• Practicing Pomodoros
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Where to Start?
• Scrum
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Pair Programming
• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation
• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs
• Rapid Relative Estimation
• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally
– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous
Learning
• Emergent Design
• Practicing Pomodoros
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Test Driven Development (TDD)
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1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com chart: Wikipedia TDD entry

Test Driven Development (TDD)
“There is evidence that doing TDD takes
about 15% longer... But there is also
evidence that TDD leads to fewer defects.
Two studies at Microsoft found that the
number of bugs found went down by 24%
and 38% with the use of TDD (Sanchez,
Williams, and Maximilien 2007, 6).”
--Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile
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1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com chart: Wikipedia TDD entry

Pair Programming
“Advocates of pair-programming are advocates
because they believe that a pair is actually
more productive than two separate developers.
This is due to the continuous discussion and
review that pairing introduces. You come up
with better designs, make fewer mistakes, and
make more people familiar with the code. All
of these things offset having less people
typing.”
--Martin Fowler, who wrote the book Refactoring
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Pair Programming
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Best Practices We Hire For
• Scrum
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Pair Programming
• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation
• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs
• Rapid Relative Estimation
• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally
– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning
• Emergent Design
• Practicing Pomodoros
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1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com

Ron Lichty Consulting
• Mentoring and Coaching and Consulting:
– http://ronlichty.com/
• The book:
Managing the Unmanageable:
Rules, Tools & Insights
for Managing Software People & Teams
– http://ManagingTheUnmanageable.net
• Training: now in development:
– “Managing Software People and Teams: the class”
– “The Agile Manager”
(Email me through the site above and I’ll let you know when.)
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