This is the Introduction to Agile talk as given on 10/8/2014 at the RedHat Agile Day event

1. An
Introduc+on
to
Agile
Jared Richardson
Principal Consultant
Agile Artisans

2. Who am I?

3. Jared Richardson
CoAuthored Ship It! and Career 2.0
Screencast editor for PragProg.com
Started AgileRTP in 2007
2nd public signatory of the Agile Manifesto
Agile coach
AgileArtisans.com

4. AgileManifesto.org

5. Which way?
flickr.com/photos/nkphillips/2865781749/

6. Umbrella Term
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Project management
Technical Practices

7. Generically....
Scrum
Project Management
!
XP
Technical Practices

8. Scrum
wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scrum_process.svg

9. XP
wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extreme_Programming.svg

10. Daily Meetings
Sprints Iterations
Test First
Pair Programming
Backlog
Continuous
Integration
XPScrum
Product Owner
Scrum Master
3x5 cards
Onsite customer
Time boxing
Retrospectives
Demos
Planning
Work
Feedback

11. XP
Tribal
Hire experience
Hire coaches

12. Scrum
Hire experience
Hire coaches
Training
Certifications

13. There's More...
Crystal
SAFe (Scaled Agile)
DAD (Disciplined Agile)
ICAgile
....

14. Dig in...
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15. Key Practices
Iterations
Stories
Daily meetings
Test First
Continuous Integration
Retrospectives
Demonstrations
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16. Sprint
Iteration
(ship event
or usable
product)
Vision/
Initiatives/
Customers
Retrospective
Demo Planning Meeting
Product
Owner
Daily
Meetings Daily
Meetings
Backlog Grooming
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17. 17
Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint
Iteration
(ship event
or usable
product)

18. Themes => years
Epics => quarters
Features => sprints
Stories => days
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19. Story Style
As a <role>
I want <feature>
So that <reason>
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20. Acceptance Criteria
What is "Done"?
Disagreements are inevitable
Position them...
Before coding
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21. Golden Triad
Development
Testing
Customer
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22. Work done?
Stand Ups
Daily
Answer 3 (or 4) questions
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Problems?
Plan to do?
(Problems you'll cause)

23. Iterations
Bounded work
Create urgency
Smaller units
More finish lines
More feedback
More corrections
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24. Test First
Write a test
The test fails
Write just enough code
The test passes
Repeat

25. Levels of tests
TDD
BDD
ATDD

26. Continuous Integration
Watch Code
Build product
Run tests
Publish results

27. Fast
feedback
leads to
fast fixes

28. Minimize Dark Times
Code Change
Validation
http://flickr.com/photos/bogenfreund/556656621/

29. Retrospective
Look back
What worked?
What didn't?
Change?
Experiments
flickr.com/photos/rogerss1/3072553293

30. Demonstrations
Iteration boundary
Working features
Feedback
Conversation tool
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31. Which way?
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32. "Context matters"
!
Andy Hunt
32andy.pragprog.com

33. Dreyfus Model of Skills
Acquisition
Level 1 => Novice
Rules
Level 5 => Guru
Freedom
Sliding scale
33

34. Rules?
At first
Then discard
34

35. Exercise
Two 3x5 cards
3 reasons to adopt an agile process
3 impediments at your org
pass to the right
brainstorm on solving impediments
35

36. Next Steps
Expertise (buy or rent)
Pilot team
Follow directions
Adjust to fit
Roll out
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39. XP Resources
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming
ExtremeProgramming.org
MartinFowler.com
ThreeRiversInstitute.org/blog

40. Wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)
Scrum.org
ScrumInc.com
ScrumAlliance.org
Scrum Resources