My talk at Egyptian Techies in Berlin. Agile, Scrum, Kanban and so on are such buzzwords that annoy every developer, or is it? I will try to demystify these words and give you a different perspective of Agile implementations in software organizations regardless of the function. Whether you are a software engineer, a researcher, a designer, a tester, a DevOps engineer or a Product manager I grantee you will learn a one or two new things.

1. Agile Myth
Agile is NOT what you think!
Amr Basha
Senior Product Manager @ LEVERTON

2. Scrum Kanban
Waterfall
Agility
Team
Squad
Sprint
Iteration
Time-box
Estimation
Roadmap
SDLC
XP
TDD
CI/CDUnit Test
Testing Automation
QA
Userstory
PRDPBI
Bug
Backlog
FDD
Standup
Retrospective
Review
Velocity
Burndown Chart
Burnup Chart

3. What is “Agile”?

4. agile
[aj-uh l, -ahyl]
(adjective)
Physically: able to move your body quickly and easily.
Mentally: able to think quickly and clearly.
Business: able to deal with new situations or changes quickly and successfully.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/agile

5. Agile is a Mindset

6. Always Deliver Value
and make it better and better and better…

7. Agile vs. Waterfall
Continuous Value Delivery Execution Perfection
ability to change incase of uncertainty perfect execution for a well-know
building process

8. Agile & Lean
Building Process Organization Mindset
how to be responsive and reactive how to keep improving yourself
and reduce waste

9. How to be agile?

10. Agile
Mindset Framework
Principles
Methodologies Lean
Mindset

11. Source: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/subway-map-to-agile-practices/

12. SCRUM KANBAN XPSCRUMBAN
Sprints & Scrums
Time-boxed Iterations
No Sprint Scope Change
Best Fits
Reviews & Retrospectives
Anyone/
Teams new to Agile
Best Fits Best Fits Best Fits
Development-centric
experienced teams
Continuos Flow
Process-driven
WIP Limits
Pick any story! Prioritization!
In-sprint prioritizationVisual Progress
WIP Limits
Icebox
Teams comfortable with
Agile
Product development Support/
Maintenance
Product development
w/high level of
uncertainty
Anyone/
Teams new to Agile
Reviews & Retrospectives
Product development
More dev-focused
TDD
CI/CD
Pair programming
Velocity

13. Choosing The Right Method
There’s no silver bullet
choose what fits your solution, team and process
Be open to change

14. Who should be agile?

15. EVERYONE
who is involved in the building process
Engineering Product Design Quality DevOps

16. THANK YOU!
Amr Basha
Senior Product Manager @
@amrsbasha
@amr.basha