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See the original presentation at http://slides.com/bittner/pycon7-fix-price-projects-and-agile
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A look at the options available to companies when delivering development services using Agile methods.
October 2014 - Presentation to Agile4Agencies, London.
November 2014 - Updated for Skills Matter, London
Fix-Price Projects And Agile – PyCon SettePeter Bittner
You are a digital agency struggling with your Django projects. You’re over budget and you’ve run out of time, that’s the norm not the exception. And of course you promise to deliver all features on time for a fixed budget, don’t you? – And nobody told you this is a problem?
See the original presentation at http://slides.com/bittner/pycon7-fix-price-projects-and-agile
Agile-based fixed price projects are tricky to manage and pose unique challenges. This presentation is a small endeavor to help people understand these challenges and possible ways in which to work around them. Many thanks to all sources mentioned.
Learn what does it mean to Test on Agile Projects, techniques for non-Automated testing, what is Test Automation (Test Pyramid discussion) + CI
Delivered by Prasad Kalgutkar & Amit Gundiyal at vodQA - Agile Testing, at ThoughtWorks, Pune on Sat, 9th Jan 2016
A look at the options available to companies when delivering development services using Agile methods.
October 2014 - Presentation to Agile4Agencies, London.
November 2014 - Updated for Skills Matter, London
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Learn more about Elico Solutions and how we can help your business grow at elico-corp.com.sg or email us at contact@elico-corp.com.sg to inquire.
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A beginner's guide to learn about Waterfall and Agile methodologies and frameworks in project management.
This is done in plain English for the non-tech savvy reader.
Presentation by Jonathan Donado
Connect with me on Twitter @donadosays
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathandonado/
PMI / PMP / Agile / Business / Project Management / Project Manager / Waterfall
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Link to the Meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Camunda-User-Group-Berlin/
In this Business Analysis Training, you will learn Agile Methodology. Topics covered in this session are:
• Agile Approach
• What is Agile?
• What does the Agile Manifesto Mean?
• Principles of Agile
• Central: Incremental and Iterative Development
• Agile Methods
• Scrum Lifecycle
• SCRUM team
• Agile Methods – Scrum
For more information, click on this link:
https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/agile-and-scrum/introduction-to-agile/
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Important aspect of doing a Lean Software Development is identifying and eliminating waste and amplifying learning. Sharing summary of my notes as I go through LSD by Poppendiecks and practice it myself at Go-Jek.
You Can't Be Agile If Your Testing Practices Suck - Vilnius October 2019Peter Gfader
Our industry has a problem:
We are not lacking software methodologies, programming languages, tools or frameworks.
We need great software teams.
Great software engineering teams build quality-in and deliver great software on a regular basis.
The technical testing excellence of those teams will help you escape the “Waterfall sandwich” and make your organization a little more agile, from the inception of an idea till they go live.
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Keynote from Testcon.lt 2019 https://www.testcon.lt/peter-gfader/
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Elico Solutions is a Ready Partner of Odoo, the fastest-growing open-source business software. We adopt an agile project management approach in implementing its Odoo for ERP Management Systems.
Learn more about Elico Solutions and how we can help your business grow at elico-corp.com.sg or email us at contact@elico-corp.com.sg to inquire.
Waterfall vs Agile : A Beginner's Guide in Project ManagementJonathan Donado
A beginner's guide to learn about Waterfall and Agile methodologies and frameworks in project management.
This is done in plain English for the non-tech savvy reader.
Presentation by Jonathan Donado
Connect with me on Twitter @donadosays
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathandonado/
PMI / PMP / Agile / Business / Project Management / Project Manager / Waterfall
Project delivery spans the entire lifecycle, from idea to customer and market approval. It involves everyone across the enterprise working together with a shared understanding of how the product should solve customer problems and satisfy needs.
On November 27th, 2018 the fourth Camunda Meetup in Berlin took place. These are the slides of Andrey Shchagin's talk: "SynerTrade - All or nothing? The way we're mitigating an impact from customer-specific implementations on the legacy system using Camunda"
Link to the Meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Camunda-User-Group-Berlin/
In this Business Analysis Training, you will learn Agile Methodology. Topics covered in this session are:
• Agile Approach
• What is Agile?
• What does the Agile Manifesto Mean?
• Principles of Agile
• Central: Incremental and Iterative Development
• Agile Methods
• Scrum Lifecycle
• SCRUM team
• Agile Methods – Scrum
For more information, click on this link:
https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/agile-and-scrum/introduction-to-agile/
This presentation introduces agile methodology, talks about scrum and the pros and cons of agile from a various perspectives. It also talks about cost of an agile project
There are many tasks that need to be done. But why get bored by doing the exact same series of actions every time? Especially when a machine can do it faster and in a more reliable way! That's what incited us to automate the way we build, test, and deploy apps so we can focus on more creative tasks.
Important aspect of doing a Lean Software Development is identifying and eliminating waste and amplifying learning. Sharing summary of my notes as I go through LSD by Poppendiecks and practice it myself at Go-Jek.
You Can't Be Agile If Your Testing Practices Suck - Vilnius October 2019Peter Gfader
Our industry has a problem:
We are not lacking software methodologies, programming languages, tools or frameworks.
We need great software teams.
Great software engineering teams build quality-in and deliver great software on a regular basis.
The technical testing excellence of those teams will help you escape the “Waterfall sandwich” and make your organization a little more agile, from the inception of an idea till they go live.
---
Keynote from Testcon.lt 2019 https://www.testcon.lt/peter-gfader/
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Agile Software Development
Agile Manifesto
Customer’s Bill of Rights
Project Team’s Bill of Rights
What is Scrum?
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Team Roles in Scrum
Product Backlog
User Story
Release Backlog
Time Estimation
Time Estimation Techniques
Sprint Backlog
Burndown Charts
Daily Standups
Sprint Retrospectives
Kanban
Kanban Board
Kanban WIP Limits
Scrum + Kanban
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3. Framework
Modularity: The process is broken down into various components.
Iterative: Short cycles
Time-Bound
Adaptive: React and adapt to change along with the
new risks exposed during the cycle.
Incremental
Convergent: Proactively attacking the risks, the system can therefore roll-out in
increments.
People-Oriented(Empowering the peoples): Stakeholders involved can help the
organic evolution of the system.
6. Agile Methods
• Scrum
• Scrum ban
• Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
• Agile Modeling
• Agile Unified Process (AUP)
• Crystal Clear Methods (Crystal Clear)
• Disciplined Agile Delivery
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Feature Driven Development (FDD)
• Lean software development
• Kanban (development)
7. Advantages
• Helps mitigate changing requirements and priorities
• Lowers cost of change
• Encourages higher quality, simpler code
• Reduces risk and defects
• Maximizes return on investment (ROI)
• Provides visibility into project progress
• Delivers business value earlier and more frequently
8. Disadvantages
• Needs consistent business involvement
• Requires more discipline
• May not be applicable all projects, all people and all situations, although it can be applied
in many situations
• Does not replace solid software engineering practice – you need to be a solid software
engineer to be a solid agile software engineer
10. Scrum
It is an Agile project management method
Characteristics:
Prioritized work is done.
Completion of backlog items
Progress is explained
Agile Software Development
11. Overview
Process
• Sprint
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint review and retrospection
Roles
• Product owner and product backlog
• Scrum Master
• The Team
• The Done
• Good Engineering practices
15. Backlog (list of stories)
The backlog in Scrum is a prioritized features list, containing short descriptions of all functionality desired in the
product.
16. Story!!!
Short and simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the person
who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system.
A typical template:
As a <type of user>, I want <some goal> so that <some reason>.
As a user, I can backup my entire hard drive.
A big user story is called epic and can be broken down into multiple small
stories.
17. Story Points
An arbitrary measures. This is used to measure the effort
required to implement a story.
A story point = Complexity + Uncertainty + Effort
Point Size :
1,2,4,8,16 or X Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large.
Mostly commonly used series is the Fibonacci series .
20. Velocity
At the end of each iteration, the team adds up effort estimates associated with user
stories that were completed during that iteration. This total is called velocity.
21. Done
A typical conversation between developer and Product owner.
Product owner (PO): Is the software done?
Developer (Dev): Yes, almost.
PO: Can we go to production?
Dev: No, not yet.
PO: Why not?
Dev: Well, some bugs have to be solved, some integration tests still have to be run, release
packages have to updated, etc.
PO: When can we go to production ?
Dev: I don't know. . . .
PO: *******************************************
To avoid this kind of situation there should be a solid definition of done.
e.g. Done = Coded+tested+varified+integrated+Ready for Production
23. A Note
Agile, by its very nature is inherently an open-ended time-and-material
(T&M) type of contract which vendors love but clients are hesitant to
sign up.
Both the software developer and client organization want to know how
much the project will cost, not to mention how long it will take.
24. Solution
First, it’s important to determine whether you are trying to complete the
entire large program as a fixed contract or a first (single) release-type
project as a fixed contract.
(we choose later)
Since it will allow both the vendor and the client to learn about the project goals and
important Agile principles such as sustainable velocity.
25. Estimation
• Customer and Vendor finalizes the backlog and becomes to estimate velocity.
• Estimation can be done by comparing with previous stories or knowledge base or whatever technique
you use.
• Ideal sprint size is 2 weeks.
• Prepare more than a week efforts. you will most likely still need to re-estimate based on the actual or
sustainable velocity that comes into play after five to ten iterations.
• Form the ideal sprint in hours
Developers=4
Daily work hours = 6.5 to 8 hours 5 days a week
For 2 weeks sprint planning = 1 day and 1 day for retrospection; working days=8
Hours 182 to 224 a week.
Man Hours. 28 to 40
Range of Ideal Sprint 246 to 314
26. Estimation
Backlog stories 30
Hours calculated 1000
Points 500
Sprint size weeks 2(1 day planning + 1 day retro) = 8 days
Developers 4
Hours/Day (4*8) 32
Sprint Hours 320
Per Sprint points 160
Total Sprints for release 3.125
Agility + scope buffer 0.25
Grand Total 3.38
Release Days 33.75
A rough Estimated Release
27. Calculating velocity
• Take the stories that have been broken into tasks
• Take total estimated hours for all tasks. then we can select how many points can
we put into sprint
• Now look at your entire backlog and count how many sprints you will need to
complete all of the backlog.
• By placing them into sprints based on the velocity and business value, you can
then understand where your natural releases are.
Note: please be wary that everything is based on rough estimation at this time
This would be a pilot release. Once you get through you, the client and your team
will be much better on estimation for next release.
28. Contract Agility buffer
At this point, the contract agility buffer comes into play. Normally we include some
level of capacity buffer, typically 20% to 40%. plus some form of a scope buffer.
60/40/20 Rule:
• Breaks the release backlog and project scope into a 60%, 40% and 20% prioritized list.
• 60% is “must-have,” (Actual project target)
• 40% is “would like to have,” (Negotiable: features can change and remove here)
• 20% is considered a “stretch goal.” positive buffer
29. Change Management
Now we have sense of time and size to be able to create a contract, with one outstanding issue:
The change control management plan.
In essence, there are three main components to consider:
1. A high level of trust to be developed between the client and vendor regarding change control.
2. The basis of the scope is the selected story. In case of change some level of change control is required. Once the new story
has been fully defined and accepted, the client should then select an equally sized item from the original backlog to be removed
and placed back into the program backlog instead of the release backlog. At that point, a zero-cost of change control is issued to
change the fixed-scope portion of the contract.
3. The alternative is that the client wants to add an item to or change a completed item on the backlog without removing anything
from the release backlog. In this case, we would again fully develop the new story, and then once accepted, we would create a
cost-type change control based on the sizing. At a minimum, the cost would change scope, but it would potentially change price
and time, as well.
30. Final Notes
Make sure the teams complete all of the 60% portion before beginning work on the 40% negotiable portion.
Cost overrun
Agile controls the cost overrun with close interaction
Assumptions
Take special care of assumptions. Clear conversations during analysis and RFP process.
Building clear expectation and honest communication.
One major component to success fully transitioning to the Agile practice is to have a strong and trusting relationship.