The document discusses five things to do before implementing Agile practices: 1) Identify the reasons for adopting Agile, 2) Inform and educate teams and the organization about Agile ways of working, 3) Define engineering practices to use, 4) Define a product backlog, and 5) Set a definition of done. It emphasizes understanding why an organization wants to adopt Agile and how Agile will benefit the organization. It also discusses communicating changes to working styles and focusing on developing working software iteratively.

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3. Five things to do
before you go Agile
Arne Åhlander
hlander 安儒宣
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4. Five things do do before you go Agile
1. Identify your Why
2. Inform and Educate
3. Define your Engineering Practices
4. Define your Product Backlog
5. Set your definition of Done
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5. • Today many teams and companies are turning
to Agile product development. Scrum is
among the most popular choices.
• The promises from Agile are several. Still it is
good advice to do a couple of things before
you go Agile.
• In the following I will list and discuss five
things to do before you go Agile.
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6. Identify your Why
• Agile in it self is not a
goal. Therefore it is of
importance for a
successful implemen-
tation to understand
and know why you
want to go Agile and
what benefits you
expect from going Agile.

7. Why Agile?
• Shorten Time to Market;
• Increase control of a
project;
• Increase the quality of
the product
• Reduce the risk;
• Maximize Return on
Investment; and,
• Increase probability of
success.
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8. More why
• Customers, users, and
stakeholders are active
participants throughout the
project
• Requirements change
rapidly
• Primary focus is on software
development rather than
processes or
documentation
• Aim is for simplicity in terms
of tools and models used

9. Benefits of Agile
• Simplicity and transparency
• Higher customer satisfaction
• Greater staff morale and
retention
• Improved quality deliverables
• Improved business value
• Quicker Return on Investment
(ROI)
• Increased productivity and
decreased development costs
• Ability to rapidly change direction

10. How to?
• Define your vision
– Where do you want to
go?
• Create a guiding
coalition
– Senior people with
decision power

11. Inform and Educate
• Since Agile ways of working
often include different ways
of thinking than traditional
product development it is
well adviced to inform and
train the team or teams
turning Agile as well as the
rest of the organization.
• Often Agile development
will have an effect not only
on the development depart-
ment but also on other
parts of the organization.

12. Define your Engineering Practices
• One of the important parts
of Agile is the Engineering
Practices. In eXtreme
Programming (XP) the
engineering practices is an
integral part.
• In Scrum the are up to the
team or the organization to
choose. In both cases you
benefit from having a base-
line of existing practices and
a plan on which practices to
add and introduce.
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13. Define your Product Backlog
• The Product Backlog is per-
haps the most important
artifact of Scrum. It contains
the What of product
development.
• It should be based on the
Product Vision and it should
constantly be up to date.
• Any team having a Product
Backlog that is current and
up to date will be better at
increasing their product-
ivity.
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14. Define your Definition of Done
• In Agile we want frequent feedback.
Both on what we have developed
and how we are working.
• One way of getting feedback is to
demonstrate the results after each
iteration.The team should focus on
developing working Software that is
possible to demonstrate and deliver
after each iteration.
• Developing a Definition of Done
helps the team to focus and it helps
stakeholders to know on what level
they should give feedback.
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15. Five things do do before you go Agile
1. Identify your Why
2. Inform and Educate
3. Define your Engineering Practices
4. Define your Product Backlog
5. Set your definition of Done
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17. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have become to value:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value on the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
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18. Agile Principles
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19. Our highest priority is
to satisfy the customer
through early and
continuous delivery of
valuable software.

20. Welcome changing
requirements, even
late in development.
Agile processes
harness change for the
customer's
competitive advantage.

21. Deliver working
software frequently,
from a couple of weeks
to a couple of months,
with a preference to
the shorter timescale.

22. Business people
and developers
must work
together daily
throughout the
project.

23. Build projects
around motivated
individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they need,
and trust them to
get the job done.

24. The most efficient and
effective method of
conveying information
to and within a
development team is
face-to-face
conversation.

25. Working software
is the primary
measure of
progress.

26. Agile processes
promote sustainable
development. The
sponsors, developers,
and users should be
able to maintain a
constant pace
indefinitely.

27. Simplicity--the art
of maximizing the
amount of work
not done--
is essential.

28. The best
architectures,
requirements, and
designs emerge
from self-
organizing teams.

29. At regular intervals,
the team reflects on
how to become
more effective, then
tunes and adjusts its
behavior
accordingly.

30. • Arne Åhlander 安儒宣
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