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The document describes how an agile project team at ThoughtWorks refactored their process to address problems like long story card lifecycles, bugs, slow build times, and communication issues between distributed teams. They made changes such as having teams own story cards, using pairing and smaller co-located teams, emphasizing testing, creating visual boards, improving developer environments, and fostering more communication. These process changes have led to visible progress, higher customer trust, improved morale and productivity, and an overall more enjoyable work experience for the team.

Technology Self Improvement

Even more Agile

Chris Stevenson & Deven Tolia

Agenda

• Agile processes stress the importance of
continual reﬂection
• We will describe how we have recently
refactored the process of one of our oldest
agile projects

Short History
• ThoughtWorks’ ﬁrst agile project
• Old, large legacy codebase
• Complex domain
• Iterative – but quite heavy process
• Distributed – large team in India
• Beta release approaching

What were the
problems?
• Long story card lifecycle (~2 months)
• Too many bugs
• Team growing in size
• Distributed team – communication
• Developer productivity problems – slow
build time
• ... low morale

How did we
address them?
• Enable Better Practices
• Make Progress Visible
• Improve Developer Productivity
• Foster Communication
• Make it more fun

Enable Better Practices

• Team owns cards
• Pairing – not just pair programming
• Smaller and Co-located teams
• Emphasis on testing
• Efﬁcient stand-ups

Make Progress Visible

• Build Tower
• Story Walls
• Colored cards
• Master story wall
• ... you can’t ﬁx it if you can’t see it

Improve developer
productivity
• Fast development machines
• Linux
• Refactor the build
• Productivity cards
• ... it all boils down to “Reduce waste”

Foster Communication
• Ambassadors
• Open furniture
• Anybody can contact any client
• Lunch-time domain sessions
• ... communication is the single biggest
problem for a distributed project

Make it more

• Team outings
• Pizza for IPMs
• Ice cream for successes
• AoE forever

What’s not working?
(yet)
• Automated functional testing
• Rotation across teams
• Induction
• Privacy/noise
• ... but we are still refactoring

So...

• Making visible progress
• Customer trusts us
• Team morale is much higher
• Productivity is much better
• ... we are having fun!

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2. Agenda • Agile processes stress the importance of continual reﬂection • We will describe how we have recently refactored the process of one of our oldest agile projects

3. Short History • ThoughtWorks’ ﬁrst agile project • Old, large legacy codebase • Complex domain • Iterative – but quite heavy process • Distributed – large team in India • Beta release approaching

4. What were the problems? • Long story card lifecycle (~2 months) • Too many bugs • Team growing in size • Distributed team – communication • Developer productivity problems – slow build time • ... low morale

5. How did we address them? • Enable Better Practices • Make Progress Visible • Improve Developer Productivity • Foster Communication • Make it more fun

6. Enable Better Practices • Team owns cards • Pairing – not just pair programming • Smaller and Co-located teams • Emphasis on testing • Efﬁcient stand-ups

7. Make Progress Visible • Build Tower • Story Walls • Colored cards • Master story wall • ... you can’t ﬁx it if you can’t see it

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9. Foster Communication • Ambassadors • Open furniture • Anybody can contact any client • Lunch-time domain sessions • ... communication is the single biggest problem for a distributed project

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11. What’s not working? (yet) • Automated functional testing • Rotation across teams • Induction • Privacy/noise • ... but we are still refactoring

12. So... • Making visible progress • Customer trusts us • Team morale is much higher • Productivity is much better • ... we are having fun!

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