This is a presentation i gave at the Israeli ALM user group explaining my view on "What is Agile" Comments are welcome.

1. Question:
What is the difference between a
home cook and a professional
chef?
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2. The biggest difference between home
cooks and professional chefs is that
home cooks don't taste the dish
often enough as they prepare it. They
just follow the recipe
step-by-step, without
getting that feedback
along the way.
[wolfgang puck - Famous American chef]
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3. Feedback
The Secret Ingredient
Of success
Elad Sofer - Agile coach
www.practical-agile.com / @eladsof /
elad@practical-agile.com
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4. What

5. is

6. Feedback

7. ?
• The supply of an input to some
process or system as a function
of its output
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8. What

9. if...
• There was a 30 second delay between
pushing the breaks, and your car
responding?
• There was a 10 minutes delay between
responses in a conversation?
• There was a 15 second delay between
pushing the button and this bullet
appearing? :)
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10. Late

11. Feedback

12. Is

13. Useless!
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14. How

15. does

16. a

17. chef

18. work?
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19. Agile is all about Shrinking
the feedback loop
[Corey Haines - Software craftsmen]
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20. Question:
How feedback loops are
different In agile
software development
process?
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21. Agile

22. Development

23. Practices
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24. Code

25. Review

26. Feedback

27. Loop
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28. Code

29. Review

30. Feedback

31. Loop
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32. Bug

33. Feedback

34. Loop
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35. Bug

36. Feedback

37. Loop
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38. Build

39. status

40. Feedback

41. Loop
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42. Build

43. status

44. Feedback

45. Loop
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46. Agile

47. Feature

48. Management
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49. Requirement

50. Feedback

51. Loop
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52. Feature

53. Progress

54. Feedback

55. Loop
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56. Feature

57. Progress

58. Feedback

59. Loop
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60. Feature

61. Progress

62. Feedback

63. Loop
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64. Agile

65. Project
Management
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66. Regression

67. Feedback

68. Loop
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69. Regression

70. Feedback

71. Loop
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72. Improvement

73. Feedback

74. Loop
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75. Improvement

76. Feedback

77. Loop
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78. Summary
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80. The cost of changes increases
exponentially the farther
along you are in the
development cycle
[Dr. Barry Boehm]
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81. cost

82. of

83. bugs
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84. cost

85. of

86. bugs
D !
T E
DA
U T
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87. The

88. big

89. Picture
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90. Agile is all about Shrinking
the feedback loop
[Corey Haines - Software craftsmen]
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91. Agile is all about
Having Many Short
Fast Nested
Fe e d back lo o p s
that are simple to learn
from Text
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92. Don't

93. simply

94.
“Shrink”

95. the

96.
feedback

97. loop
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98. Improve

99. The

100. Feedback

101. Loop
• Pair Programming • Having daily meetings.
• Unit testing TDD. • Using Burn-Down
• Doing testing Inside charts.
the team. • Running Automatic
• Running Automatic test process.
build process. • Doing Retrospectives.
• Working in short • KPIs at the right
Iterations. level.
• Using BDDATDD
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102. Thank

103. you
Any
Questions ?
Elad Sofer - Agile coach
www.practical-agile.com / @eladsof /
elad@practical-agile.com
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