Modern Software Practices - by Damon Poole

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Presentation copyright © 2009-2010 AccuRev, Inc.
May be used with permission only. Contact dpoole@accurev.com for permission.
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Modern Best Practices for Software
Development and Process Improvement
Damon Poole – CTO, AccuRev

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About Damon Poole
 Founder and CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider
of Software Development Tools
 Creator of multiple Jolt-award winning products
 20 years of process improvement leadership
ranging from small co-located teams to 10,000-
person global development shops.
 Frequent speaker at software development events
 Constant interaction with software development
shops of all sizes across many industries

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Modern Practices
Refactoring
User
Stories
Whole
Teams
Collocation
Backlog
Unit Tests
Continuous
Integration
CI
Multi-Stage
CI
One Piece
Flow
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Burnup
Chart
Velocity
Planning
Poker

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Some Practices Have Whole Books Written
About Them

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The Structure of the Work
Specify
Design
Code
Integrate
Document
Write tests
Test
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The Telephone Game

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The Telephone Game
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Requirements
 3.4 Customer Identification
• 3.4.1 A web “cookie” shall be used to uniquely identify visitors
• 3.4.2 Each customer shall be associated with a cookie
• 3.4.3 Cookies shall be stored in an RDBMS
 3.5 Sale presentation
• 3.5.1 Each item for sale shall have a button marked “buy” next to
the item
• 3.5.2 Selecting the “buy” action shall trigger an order placement
action
 3.6 Fulfillment
• 3.6.1 By default, all orders shall use the on-file default shipping
information
• 3.6.2 If available, all orders will use the customer’s default payment
method
• 3.6.3 It shall be possible for the customer to cancel any order for
up to 4 hours after they place that order.

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User Stories
 “As a user I want to order what I am browsing
with a single click.”
 As a <user role> I want to <achieve some goal>

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Why Use User Stories
 Keeps focus on the customer’s perspective
 Provides a single description used by customer,
product owner, scrum master, developer, tester,
and documenter
 Short term high bandwidth high value
communication
 Separates need and implementation (like an API)
 Simplifies planning
 Well suited for Agile (assumes many quick turns)
 Encourages innovation and creativity at all levels

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One Piece Flow
Within a release
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Developer Test & Doc

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Collocation
•2-4 megabit
•High latency
•Not always avail.
•Gigabit
•Low latency
•Usually available
5 File servers
5 Db servers
4 App servers
4 Build servers
4 Test environments
San Jose
Boston
ChennaiKiev

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Collocation
•Low bandwidth
•High latency
•Not always avail.
•High bandwidth
•Low latency
•Usually available
San Jose
Boston
ChennaiKiev
Architect
Developer
Doc writer
Product Manager
Tester

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Collocation
Infrequent
coordination
San Jose
Boston
ChennaiKiev
Architect
Developer
Doc writer
Product Manager
Tester
Manager
Constant
communication

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Cross Functional/Whole Team
Developer(s)
Tester(s)
Manager
Doc WriterProduct Manager

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Testing
System
Integration
C C
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Unit

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Modern Unit Testing
 JUnit & JMock for Java
 NUnit & NMock for C#
 Works best when part of Continuous Integration
 Supports refactoring

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Refactoring
C C C
C C
C C
C C
•Same functionality
•Better organized
•More maintainable
•Easier to add new functionality
•Joining and splitting methods
•File content changes
•File renames
•Works best with Unit Testing and CI

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$5M
per lane
$11M
per lane

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Splitting Work Along Technical Lines
Value A

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Splitting Work Along Technical Lines
Value A
Back end,
infrastructure
Middle layer
Front end

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Splitting Work By Value
Value B Value C
Back end,
infrastructure
Middle layer
Front end
Value D

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Continuous Integration
 Fully automated, 1-step build used by everybody
 Fully automated, 1-step testing used by everybody
 Integration
• Integrate new changes into baseline
• Build
• Test
 Faster feedback
 Everybody on the same page
 Longer runway

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Continuous Integration
Continuous
Integration
Specify Design Code Integrate
Write tests
Test
Crunch Time
Doc
Big
Bang

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CI
ws
ws
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ws
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main
Continuous Integration on Mainline Only
Minutes Hours
Team A
Team B

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CI
CI
CI
Team A
Team B
ws
ws
ws
Multiple Stages of Continuous Integration
Minutes Hours
int
Daily
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CI
CI
CI
CI
Team A
Team B
ws
ws
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Multiple Stages of Continuous Integration
Minutes Hours
int
Daily
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ws
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staging ship

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Managing Priorities
Priority Definition
0 Must have/committed
1 Very important
2 Significant value
3 Minor value
4 Unsure

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Managing Priorities
Priority Actual Meaning
0 Maybe

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Managing Priorities
Priority Actual Meaning
0 Maybe
1 Definitely not
2 Definitely not
3 Definitely not
4 Definitely not

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Backlog Based Prioritization
Business
Value
Issue Story Points State
432 User wants layout pleasing to the eye 2 reviewed
420 User wants example templates to choose from 3 reviewed
419 Admin wants zero installation 5 reviewed
612 Manager wants dashboard view 5 reviewed
599 Admin wants LDAP integration 5 reviewed
831 Admin wants self-serve password reset 2 reviewed
692 User wants automatic todo list generation 2 reviewed
432 User wants easy task entry 1 reviewed
119 User wants subscription-based e-mail notification 5 reviewed
332 Marketing wants fancy splash screen 3 reviewed
516 Admin wants 1-click license update 2 reviewed
533 User wants app to be ready in 3 seconds or less 5 reviewed
619 User wants app to work using Chrome 5 reviewed
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Using Story Points for Estimation
 Different people may take different amounts of time
to perform the same task
 Estimating in hours mixes together the scope of the
work that needs to be done with the speed at which
a particular individual can do that work
 Story points are a relative measure of the scope of a
user story
 Story points separate out the “what” from the “who”
 To use story points, you need to create a relative
scale of scope for reference

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Planning Poker
 An Agile estimation technique
 Often uses story points as estimation units
 Leverages the collective wisdom of the whole
team
 Helps to build a sense of team and shared
responsibility
 “We’re all in this together”
 Discourages division by type of work performed

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We’re all
in this
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Velocity
Velocity
10
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30
40
0
StoryPoints
Time

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Bringing it All Together
new reviewed todo wip coded tested done
Burnup
10
20
30
40
0
StoryPoints
Backlog

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Modern Practices
Refactoring
User
Stories
Whole
Teams
Collocation
Backlog
Unit Tests
Continuous
Integration
CI
Multi-Stage
CI
One Piece
Flow
S
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C
WT
D
T
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Burnup
Chart
Velocity
Planning
Poker

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Additional Practices for Agile
Product
Owner
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Retro-
spectives?
Short
Iterations
Iteration
Review
Daily
Standup

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Poll/Resources/Q&A
 Damon Poole
dpoole@accurev.com
http://damonpoole.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/damonpoole
 Continuous Integration, Paul M. Duvall
 User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn
 Refactoring, Martin Fowler
 JUnit Recipes, J.B. Rainsberger
 The Art of Unit Testing, Roy Osherove

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Questions?
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Hemant Elhence
hemant@synerzip.com
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1. Software product development partner for small/mid-
sized technology companies
 Exclusive focus on small/mid-sized technology companies
 By definition, all Synerzip work is the IP of its respective clients
 Deep experience in full SDLC – design, dev, QA/testing, deployment
 Technology and industry domain agnostic
2. Dedicated team of high caliber software professionals
 Seamlessly extends client’s local team, offering full transparency
 NOT just “staff augmentation”, but provide full mgmt support
3. Actually reduces risk of development/delivery
 Experienced team - uses appropriate level of engineering discipline
 Practices Agile development – responsive, yet disciplined
4. Reduces cost – dual-shore team, 50% cost advantage
5. Offers long term flexibility – allows (facilitates) taking
offshore team captive – aka “BOT” option
Synerzip in a Nut-shell

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