Slides from my talk at Agile Turkey 2014 talking about how the journey of the Guardian's development teams over the last few years.

1. Beyond the two-week iteration:
an experience report
Simon Hildrew
The Guardian
@sihil

3. Founded in 1821

4. Website growth
1999
1m
March 2014
100m
www
monthly
uniques

13. “Its core purpose is to secure the
financial and editorial independence of
the Guardian in perpetuity.”

14. 2010 2014
‘Products’ 1 ~15
Services / Deployables 4 ~120
Department size 40 160

15. 99 problems

16. 25 releases a year

17. Stakeholder anxiety

18. Release Trifle
Brooke Raymond: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brooke/2364980971

19. Inflexibility

20. Determining value

21. Joe Lewis: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanbeiji/220644819
Traditional Agile has limits

22. 99 problems;
Agile ain’t one

23. Oliver Wihler: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oliver1/3070609090

24. People and Process

25. Agile Command & Control
Pam Falcioni: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ducatisti/3445071198

26. Jeff Mayer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/soundman1024/5813948758
Developer Autonomy

27. HANDBOOK FOR
NEW EMPLOYEES
========================================================
A fearless adventure
in knowing what to do
when no one’s there
telling you what to do
FIRST EDITION
2012

28. HANDBOOK FOR
NEW EMPLOYEES
========================================================
A fearless adventure
in knowing what to do
when no one’s there
telling you what to do
FIRST EDITION
2012

29. Fig. 2-2 Method to move your desk
1.
3.
2.
4.
step 1. Unplug cords from wall
step 2. Move your desk
step 3. Plug cords back into wall
step 4. Get back to work
VALVE METHOD DIAG. 1

30. Fred George’s Programmer Anarchy
PROGRAMMER
Copyright © 2011 by Forward Internet Group, Ltd
31
ANARCHY

31. “Developer Migration”

32. • Continually updated list of engineer requirements
• Anyone can ask to move
• Feedback on unsuccessful requests

33. Technical Enablers

34. Continuous Delivery

35. Riff-Raff

36. Change in attitudes
allison: https://www.flickr.com/photos/look_ma_im_flying_pictures/2222370392

37. Decouple deployment
from feature releases

43. Fix small things; fast

45. Who knows…?

46. Guessing & arguing easier than measuring
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nouqraz/200049988

47. Metrics

48. change deployed

50. Hypothesis testing

51. Audience Segmentation

52. Dev QA Ops
Gatekeeper
Watchman/Overseer
Consultant
Manual regression
tester
Test automation
Feature testing
Product developer
Product developer,
operations & support

53. → Continuous improvement
→ Confidence
→ Feature releases
→ De facto change
→ Everyone responsible
Two weeks
Anxious stakeholders
Trifle releases
Inflexible sprints
Sole/unclear ‘value’ owner

54. Thanks!
http://github.com/guardian
Simon Hildrew
@sihil
simon.hildrew@theguardian.com