Agile Tooling 11 November 2010

1. Agile Mëtteg – November 11th, 2010
Agile Tooling

2. OBJECTIVES & AGENDA
Objectives
Get a short introduction to agile tooling, and
where it sits next to agile methods and
practices
Agenda
Agility and Quality
Tools contribution to Agile software
development
Tools in the Agile IT
(Examples)
To conclude
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3. LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
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4. AGILE PARTNER SERVICES
Custom Software Development &
Maintenance
Our core business to answer
customer needs
IS services
Thanks to our expertise we can
support IT team to reach their
productivity & quality objectives
(Assessment, Coaching, Support,
Training, Resource delegation…)
IS Solutions
Take benefit from commercial or
Open Source platform to answer as
quick as possible to specific needs
IS users services
We can support Product & Services
owners to work closely with the IT
team (Assessment, Coaching,
Support, Training, Resource
delegation…)
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IS users
Service
s
Software
Development
&
Software
Maintenance
IS
Solution
s
IS
Service
s

5. SPEAKER
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Pierre-Antoine Grégoire
I.T. Architect
CSM
Agile Practitioner
Lean/Kanban, Devops

6. PARTICIPANTS
Who are you?
What is your role?
What do you know about agility?
What are your expectations?
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7. AGILITY AND QUALITY
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8. ADAPTATION vs. ANTICIPATION
Source: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum, Mike Cohn , Addison-Wesley, 2009
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9. MEET THE FUD
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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

10. QUALITY STRIKES BACK!
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Quality is the best answer to FUD
Deliver quality items faster than before
Win trust
Easier said than done?

11. OBJECTIVES
Build knowledge
Build a solution that fits the real needs
Optimize delivered value
Build trust relationship
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12. WHICH QUALITY & HOW TO MEASURE
IT?
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Agile is about adding Value
Giving value to a customer for a product
Contributing to a value stream
Focusing on value
Enforces removal of impediments
Makes evaluation obvious from clients to I.T.
teams to Management
Gives shared quality goals for everybody

13. IN THE MEANTIME…
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Many people won’t see things this way
Non Agile boundaries exist:
Audit constraints
Input from non-agile teams
Output to non-agile teams
And moreover:
Agile doesn’t mean messy nor improvised
development
Agile doesn’t mean costless development
Agile means focus on value

14. SO WHERE DOES QUALITY SIT?
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Delivered features (value) must be target
constant and (very) high quality

15. Trust is a key asset to Agility adoption
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If people trust Agile teams/initiative,
adoption is (of course) easier

16. TOOLS CONTRIBUTION TO
AGILE SDLC
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17. THE 4 VALUES
Extract from Manifesto for Agile Software Development:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
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Source: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

18. THE 4 VALUES
Extract from Manifesto for Agile Software Development:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
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Source: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

19. EXTRACT FROM THE 12 PRINCIPLES
Satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software.
Deliver working software frequently with
a preference to the shorter timescale.
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of
work not done--is essential.
Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the project.
Face-to-face conversation for conveying
information to and within a development team.
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20. EXTRACT FROM THE 12 PRINCIPLES
Satisfy the customer through early and
continuous delivery of valuable software.
Deliver working software frequently with
a preference to the shorter timescale.
Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of
work not done--is essential.
Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the project.
Face-to-face conversation for conveying
information to and within a development team.
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21. AGILE PROCESS
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Priority
Needs
Iterations System in progress
Iterative and incremental process
Adaptive planning
Iterations time-boxed

22. TOOLS EVERYWHERE
A Whiteboard/Kanban AND a good
ticketing system
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23. TOOLS EVERYWHERE
Frequent delivery AND Continuous
Integration to enforce and ease this
delivery
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24. TOOLS EVERYWHERE
TDD AND Testing frameworks,
Collaboration tools for User Acceptance
Tests
Good IDEs/Editors for Efficient Refactoring
Good code analysis for fast error analysis
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25. TOOLS TO IMPROVE YOUR PROCESS
Tools in an Agile project/context are not
focused on nor chosen for their
compatibility with a predefined process
Tools should adapt to your needs and
assist you in improvements of your
process
Development process
Testing process
Validation process
Release process
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26. TOOLS TO AUGMENT YOUR FOCUS
Tools should help you improve quality, by
removing boiler-plate and helping you
focus on Value
Tools should evolve constantly with your
process
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27. TOOLS IN THE AGILE I.T.
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28. MORE THAN JUST PROJECTS
SDLC (Software Development Life-Cycle)
expands to more than a development
team
How do Agile tools help with customer
interaction?
How does Agility integrate with (for
example) ITIL?
How can Agility ease interaction with
operations?
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29. CUSTOMER-FOCUSED AGILE TOOLS
Transparency and collaboration tools
WIKI
DSLs (Ubiquitous language)
Wallboards or Equivalent virtual Dashboards
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30. ITIL AND AGILITY
ITIL, as many frameworks and methods,
comes with methods and tools (remember
the manifesto?)
ITIL should be considered a good
grammar, though it doesn’t provide value
by itself
Value should still be the main goal, and
ITIL a shared vocabulary/tool to achieve it
This is true for any other (imposed) classic
framework or method
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31. OPERATIONS AND AGILITY
A new trend: Dev/ops
Limit between development and
operations blurrier every day
Cloud and virtualization are helping this
frequent releases have their impact
End-to-end Delivery quality attempted very
early, and therefore achieved very early!
Failure is allowed, though quality and
tooling ensure easy fixes (reverting to
former version in a click…)
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32. CONCLUSION
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33. TOOLS SHOULDN’T GET IN THE WAY
Everything that disallows providing more
value with more quality faster should be
considered an impediment
This is also true for tools.
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34. Tools should help improve the process
Tools should be there to help and assist
the process
Tools should adapt to process
improvements or be abandoned
Tools should not drive the process, people
and value (stream) should
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35. TIME-TO-MARKET
Sources: Mah 2008. Moutain Goat Software, LLC
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36. SALESFORCE.COM
Source: Greene and Fry 2008. Moutain Goat Software, LLC
568% more
value
delivered in
the first year
of being agile.
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37. SATISFACTION
Improved
Significantly
Improved
Enhanced ability to manage
changing priorities
41% 51%
Improved project visibility 42% 41%
Improved alignment of IT
and business goals
39% 27%
Reduced project risk 48% 17%
Source: VersionOne, 2008 State of Agile Development Survey
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38. QUESTIONS
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READY to TRY

39. HOW WE CAN HELP
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41. RESOURCES
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42. CONTACTS
Thank You
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Pierre-Antoine
GREGOIRE
Sylvain CHERY
IT Architect Director
pagregoire@agilepartner.net schery@agilepartner.net
+352 691 555 482 +352 691 555 221