Presentation about Agile project planning and stoftware development techniques oriented to IT students at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania

1. STRESS FREE DEVELOPMENT
Laurynas Antanavičius
Project Manager at Data Dog
2015.04.21

2. ABOUT US
Project Manager at DATA DOG (2 years)
Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)
Member of DATA DOG Project Management Office
Custom web development and support
Cloud-based application and software development
B2B, B2C eCommerce solutions
Specialised in PHP
Over 35 developers in Kaunas, Lithuania and London, UK
Wide base of clients: UK, US, UAE, France, Luxembourg…
Currently
Services
Company

3. http://vimeo.com/107405318

4. Have you ever encountered a
situation in your job that you
can't change anything?

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pui78pskx24

6. Rules create limits
But in some cases, rules are stronger
than the individual

7. But how to overcome that?
Did you try talking about it?

10. So if face-to-face communication is the
most effective…
Why do you keep writing those emails
and preparing documentation that no
one reads?

12. FOLLOW VALUES
NOT RULES
Agile values

13. Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan

15. vs SpeedQuality
FOCUS
vs RewardGrowth
vs AccessibilitySecurity
vs StabilityFlexibility

16. EFFICIENCY VS
EFFECTIVENESS
Have you ever had just one task
for the project - finish it?

17. TRADITIONAL
REQUIREMENTS
Build a user contact form with the following fields:
name, surname, email, free text and a submit
button. When the submit button is pressed, an
email is sent to our support team.

18. BDD REQUIREMENTS
As Jimmy the user I want to contact your support
team when I can't use the site properly so they
can help me.

19. BDD
• Behaviour Driven Development
• As with any test-driven methodology, it will not
save you time
• It will bring focus on what your aiming for
• It allows freedom to develop the best solution

20. User stories format
As a <user>, I want to <functionality>, in
order to <benefit>.

21. Scenario format
Given <background>
When <action>
Then <result>

22. Scenario format
Given I am on page "Account Profile"
When I fill in “First name:" with "Dark"
And I press "Update"
Then I should see success notification "Updated
your profile may be.”

23. BDD
• Red-Green-Refactor
• Tests defined - Code written - Code refactored
• The best part
• We are sure that it works
• Anyone can write it
• If it does not work, it was not supposed to!

24. INVEST IN
THE RIGHT TOOLS

25. Docs: Word vs Google Docs

26. Code: Notepad vs Atom

27. Deployment: FTP vs Ansible

28. Version control: Nothing vs Git

29. Design: Fireworks vs Sketch 3

30. Communication: Slack vs Skype

31. Hosting:
Shared vs VPS

32. Windows
vs
Mac
vs
Linux

33. HAVE FUN
That’s why we’re doing it, right?

34. YOU LIKE STAR WARS?
Why not develop a Yoda code sniffer?

35. DATADOG
PLANNING
POKER
• More fun from
the estimating
process
• 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, inf
• Team estimation

36. COMMUNITIES
People really talk more openly in a bar

37. SPEND SOME TIME OUTSIDE WORK

38. DON’T BEAT
YOURSELF UP!

39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbsJPO-ZreM

40. DO NOT COMMIT IF YOU
ARE NOT 100% SURE

41. HAVE A DEADLINE AND
STICK TO IT BY KEEPING IT
REALISTIC

42. IT'S OKAY TO NOT KNOW,
BE UNCERTAIN AND FAIL

43. LAURYNAS@DATADOG.LT
ASK WHY?