This workshop is part of our kickoff process for new projects.
It's a space to discuss about how we and our clients understand agile methodologies their implementation.
This document provides an overview of Agile software development principles and practices. It discusses:
- The problems with traditional waterfall software development approaches
- The evolution and principles of Agile development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto
- Key Agile practices like Scrum, product backlogs, sprints, and sprint planning meetings
- Tips for writing good user stories and splitting stories into smaller tasks
- The typical lifecycle of activities in a Scrum project including release planning, iterations (sprints), daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
The document provides an overview of Scrum, an agile framework for managing product development. It defines Scrum as focusing on delivering value through working software in short cycles. Key Scrum elements include self-organizing cross-functional teams, prioritized backlogs, sprints of fixed duration for delivering features, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
The document provides an overview of Agile development and Scrum methodology. It discusses key Agile concepts like the Agile Manifesto, Scrum roles and artifacts, timeboxing, and metrics like velocity and burndowns. It also addresses adopting Agile, working with requirements and QA, and challenges of offshore development in an Agile model.
Agile is software development technique in which the software is developed in a way that quality of software is good and the time required to development is less and the development takes place by parts, i.e. The software delivered to the user or customer by parts in a short period of time. The agile methodology introduced simple, easy to follow ideas that revolutionized how teams approach software delivery.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing projects that uses short cycles of work called sprints to incrementally deliver working software. There are three main roles in Scrum - the Product Owner prioritizes features in the Product Backlog, the Scrum Master facilitates the process, and the self-organizing Team works to complete the highest priority items each sprint. Key Scrum artifacts include the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn Down Chart. The main Scrum ceremonies are Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
The document provides an overview of Agile software development using Scrum. It describes Scrum as an Agile framework that focuses on delivering business value through short iterative development cycles called sprints. Key aspects of Scrum include self-organizing cross-functional teams, prioritized product backlogs maintained by a Product Owner, and regular sprint planning, daily standup, review and retrospective meetings facilitated by a Scrum Master.
This document provides an overview of agile development techniques including Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Crystal, and Kanban. It discusses the roles, practices, and processes of each technique. It also describes how teams can create an "agile mashup" by combining practices from different agile methods to suit their specific needs. The document concludes by emphasizing that agile software development is a cooperative game that works best when teams communicate face-to-face.
I normally teach Introduction to Agile and Scrum over a 2 day session to teams. Here is a highly condensed 2-hour version of it that covers agile thinking and introduces scrum as a framework without getting into details.
I use it as a course material for teaching to teams or groups looking to get a perspective on "why" as opposed to "how" aspect of agile.
This document provides an overview of Agile software development principles and practices. It discusses:
- The problems with traditional waterfall software development approaches
- The evolution and principles of Agile development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto
- Key Agile practices like Scrum, product backlogs, sprints, and sprint planning meetings
- Tips for writing good user stories and splitting stories into smaller tasks
- The typical lifecycle of activities in a Scrum project including release planning, iterations (sprints), daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
The document provides an overview of Scrum, an agile framework for managing product development. It defines Scrum as focusing on delivering value through working software in short cycles. Key Scrum elements include self-organizing cross-functional teams, prioritized backlogs, sprints of fixed duration for delivering features, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
The document provides an overview of Agile development and Scrum methodology. It discusses key Agile concepts like the Agile Manifesto, Scrum roles and artifacts, timeboxing, and metrics like velocity and burndowns. It also addresses adopting Agile, working with requirements and QA, and challenges of offshore development in an Agile model.
Agile is software development technique in which the software is developed in a way that quality of software is good and the time required to development is less and the development takes place by parts, i.e. The software delivered to the user or customer by parts in a short period of time. The agile methodology introduced simple, easy to follow ideas that revolutionized how teams approach software delivery.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing projects that uses short cycles of work called sprints to incrementally deliver working software. There are three main roles in Scrum - the Product Owner prioritizes features in the Product Backlog, the Scrum Master facilitates the process, and the self-organizing Team works to complete the highest priority items each sprint. Key Scrum artifacts include the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn Down Chart. The main Scrum ceremonies are Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
The document provides an overview of Agile software development using Scrum. It describes Scrum as an Agile framework that focuses on delivering business value through short iterative development cycles called sprints. Key aspects of Scrum include self-organizing cross-functional teams, prioritized product backlogs maintained by a Product Owner, and regular sprint planning, daily standup, review and retrospective meetings facilitated by a Scrum Master.
This document provides an overview of agile development techniques including Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Crystal, and Kanban. It discusses the roles, practices, and processes of each technique. It also describes how teams can create an "agile mashup" by combining practices from different agile methods to suit their specific needs. The document concludes by emphasizing that agile software development is a cooperative game that works best when teams communicate face-to-face.
I normally teach Introduction to Agile and Scrum over a 2 day session to teams. Here is a highly condensed 2-hour version of it that covers agile thinking and introduces scrum as a framework without getting into details.
I use it as a course material for teaching to teams or groups looking to get a perspective on "why" as opposed to "how" aspect of agile.
The document discusses Agile methodology and its key aspects. It provides an agenda for a seminar on Agile development that includes topics like scope, foundations, processes like eXtreme Programming and Test-Driven Development, a case study, and experiences. It then discusses concepts like iterative development, minimalism, dependency management, and the Agile manifesto's values of individuals, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Specific Agile processes like Scrum and practices like pair programming, user stories, and testing are also covered.
Agile methodology is a framework for modern software development.
What is the philosophy behind Agile?
How does it differ from traditional project management strategies like waterfall?
What are the stages, meetings, tools, and team roles?
What is Scrum?
The document provides an overview of Agile and Scrum concepts through an experiential paper airplane factory simulation activity. Key points covered include:
- The activity splits participants into teams to simulate a production line for building paper airplanes using Agile principles like iterations, inspecting and adapting processes.
- It demonstrates roles like the product owner, team leader and roles, Scrum meetings like planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
- The winner is determined by the team that delivers the most airplanes on time while continuously improving their process over multiple iterations based on inspecting and adapting their production line.
- The document concludes with recapping the key lessons around how the activity simulated real-world
Presented in BSPIN Conference (http://bspin.org/conference2014/) on "Succeeding in SMAC World". Had great interactions and glad to see great interest on Agile Testing concepts with Participants.
This document outlines a model for a sustainable agile transformation within an organization. It begins with an overview of agile basics and scaling agile approaches. It then discusses why agile transformations are difficult, focusing on achieving safety from different stakeholder perspectives. The model proposes defining an operational framework structured around teams, products, and services. It recommends introducing change incrementally, starting with independent pilot teams, and measuring improvement through coaching and assessment. The transformation aims to tie back to business drivers like predictability, quality, and early return on investment.
Agile Business Day 2020 - Refinement- Unlock the full potential of your refi...Derk-Jan de Grood
Good refinement makes development more predictable, leads to better solutions and enables the Product Owner to set the right priorities. Still many teams fail to unlock the full potential of refinement. Join this session to get practical tips to get more out of your refinement sessions.I have guided many teams during their transition toward Agile. Initially most attention went to the ceremonies and understanding the agile values. Experience taught me that when the team gets up to speed refinement becomes a bottleneck. Crucial because good refinement makes development more predictable, leads to better solutions and enables the Product Owner to set the right priorities.Unfortunately, I see many teams that do not unlock the full potential of refinement. Not only is the time spent on refinement often limited, many of the refinement meetings I join are inefficient. I meet teams that spent half the meeting watching the Product Owner entering the new backlog items in the workflow system. Although they poker the user stories afterwards, little time is left to discussions the best solution and risks that need to be avoided.In this talk I will focus on the following topics• Advantages of good refinement and what I see in daily practise• How we can boost the potential of Refinement by organising it as a process rather than a meeting• Introduction of challenging questions that can be used to prepare your refinement• And last but not least, how you can involve the off-site team members of distributed teamsJoin this session if you are an Agile Coach of SM and want to help your team(s) to get more out of refinement. If you are a PO and feel a need to boost quality and predictability, or if you are a member of a distributed team and want to involve your fellow team members making better solutions.
This document provides an overview of different software development processes including the waterfall model, iterative model, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Agile Development Process (ADP). It describes the key aspects of each process including phases, roles, artifacts, and ceremonies. Specifically, it provides detailed explanations of Scrum, an agile methodology, including Scrum roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, ceremonies like the Daily Scrum, and artifacts like the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. The document concludes with references for further information.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing work with an emphasis on iterative development and collaboration. It uses sprints, daily stand-ups, backlogs and emphasizes adaptive planning and evolutionary development. Key roles include the product owner, scrum master and development team. Sprints involve planning, daily stand-ups and a review at the end where the completed increment is demonstrated. The process aims to deliver working software frequently to gain feedback and continuously improve the product.
This document provides an overview of the Agile (Scrum) methodology. It describes Scrum as a framework for project management that uses short development cycles called sprints. Key aspects of Scrum covered include roles like the product owner and scrum master, meetings like the daily scrum and sprint review, and terminology such as user stories, product backlog, and burn-down charts. The document outlines benefits of Agile like improved visibility and quality, as well as some potential disadvantages around documentation and management effort.
Tester’s considerations when moving towards successful CI/CDDerk-Jan de Grood
These are the slides of the tutorial I gave at QA&Testing in Bilbao on 17 October 2018
Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) empowers organizations to bring their solution in production fast and frequent. This interactive session will share the benefits of this concept and introduce eight conditions that need to be met in order to make CI/CD a success. After this brief introduction, we will make small groups and explore these conditions, exchange experiences and you will get an understanding what needs to be improved in your organization. Talk to your peers and learn where they stand. Of course each of the groups will share their learnings, so we all go home with an understanding of how you can benefit from CI/CD and what needs to be done to make it work.
Finally we will see what test strategy we would advise if our company would decide to move towards CI/CD and this cover we consider much more than just automate our tests…
Agile development focuses on effective communication, customer collaboration, and incremental delivery of working software. The key principles of agile development according to the Agile Alliance include satisfying customers, welcoming changing requirements, frequent delivery, collaboration between business and development teams, and self-organizing teams. Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile process model that emphasizes planning with user stories, simple design, pair programming, unit testing, and frequent integration and testing.
The document introduces agile software development methods. It discusses the goals of being able to speak confidently about agile and provide solutions to problems teams face. The agenda covers introductions to agile principles, roles, planning, reporting, retrospectives, and estimating. Popular agile methods like Scrum and XP are explained. The roles of product managers and product owners are compared.
The document provides an overview of agile development, including its principles, types of agile methods, tools that support agile development, and when projects are well-suited to agile. It defines agile development as an iterative approach performed by self-organizing teams to produce high-quality software through early delivery and response to changing needs. The principles emphasize things like customer satisfaction, frequent delivery, collaboration, trusting motivated individuals, and responding to change.
The document provides an overview of the waterfall model and agile methodologies for software development projects. It discusses:
- The linear sequential phases of the waterfall model and when it is suitable.
- Issues with the waterfall model like inability to handle changes and lack of testing throughout.
- Benefits of agile like ability to adapt to changes, early delivery of working software, and improved success rates.
- Key aspects of the Scrum agile framework like sprints, daily stand-ups, and product backlogs.
- Differences in how development costs are treated as capital expenditures or operating expenses between waterfall, agile, and cloud-based models.
The document discusses Agile SCRUM project development methodology. It provides an overview of SCRUM principles and processes including short iterative development cycles called sprints, daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, tracking sprint backlogs and burn downs, sprint reviews and retrospectives. The roles of product owners, scrum masters and self-organizing cross-functional teams are also summarized.
The document discusses different project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches. It provides details on frameworks for scaling Agile like SAFe and LeSS. Studies have shown that Agile projects have a higher success rate of delivering on time and on budget compared to Waterfall. Scaling Agile involves frameworks to coordinate large programs involving multiple Agile teams through elements like program increment planning and aligning teams.
The document provides an overview of Scrum, an agile software development framework. It defines Scrum, discusses its history and introduction. It describes the Scrum framework, including roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, events like sprint planning and review, and artifacts like product and sprint backlogs. It outlines the Scrum process and provides examples of Scrum applications. It discusses advantages like adaptability and faster delivery, and disadvantages like lack of documentation. It concludes that Scrum is popular for experienced teams that can self-organize, but requires strict adherence to be effective.
The document discusses testing in agile projects through a case study. It presents four case examples of companies using agile methodologies and discusses both benefits and challenges of testing in agile projects. Specifically, it notes that agile practices like incremental development help ensure quality at the end of each iteration. However, agile also demands discipline from teams and individuals and can be difficult for testers accustomed to more traditional roles. The document concludes that in agile, testing is a function all team members contribute to rather than a separate role.
- Scrum is an agile framework for managing complex projects using short development cycles ("sprints"), regular inspection of progress, and adaptation to change. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, and incremental delivery of work.
- Key Scrum roles include the Product Owner who prioritizes features, the Development Team who implements them, and the Scrum Master who facilitates the process.
- Core Scrum activities are Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, which focus the team and enable inspection and adaptation.
- The Product Backlog contains prioritized features and the Sprint Backlog contains work for the current Sprint. A Burn Down Chart tracks progress. Scrum
Scrum is an agile framework for managing projects that emphasizes transparency, inspection, and adaptation. The key roles in Scrum are the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development Team. The Product Owner manages the Product Backlog of features and priorities. The Scrum Master coaches the team and removes impediments. The Development Team works in short Sprints to deliver working software. Key Scrum events include Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. Artifacts include the Product and Sprint Backlogs, as well as impediment and parking logs. Together, these roles, events, and artifacts aim to deliver working software frequently through an empirical process of transparent inspection and adaptation.
Keys to Successful Cohabitation: Governance and Autonomous TeamsDevOps.com
Our release management processes and teams are there to try to protect us from failure and disaster, but when we want to accelerate our velocity, they can seem to get in the way. Current best practices that optimize value streams move toward smaller, autonomous teams who are responsible for every aspect of delivery and risk management. But how can we do that without compromising our governance and introducing risk?
Join Helen Beal, a self-described ‘DevOpsologist’ at Ranger4 and Jeff Keyes, VP of Product at Plutora, to learn about:
Why autonomous teams and centralized governance can live together;
How organizations evolve to release frequently and safely on demand;
What happens to release managers in a decentralized model;
The technology that supports us in making risk-informed decisions.
The document discusses Agile methodology and its key aspects. It provides an agenda for a seminar on Agile development that includes topics like scope, foundations, processes like eXtreme Programming and Test-Driven Development, a case study, and experiences. It then discusses concepts like iterative development, minimalism, dependency management, and the Agile manifesto's values of individuals, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Specific Agile processes like Scrum and practices like pair programming, user stories, and testing are also covered.
Agile methodology is a framework for modern software development.
What is the philosophy behind Agile?
How does it differ from traditional project management strategies like waterfall?
What are the stages, meetings, tools, and team roles?
What is Scrum?
The document provides an overview of Agile and Scrum concepts through an experiential paper airplane factory simulation activity. Key points covered include:
- The activity splits participants into teams to simulate a production line for building paper airplanes using Agile principles like iterations, inspecting and adapting processes.
- It demonstrates roles like the product owner, team leader and roles, Scrum meetings like planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
- The winner is determined by the team that delivers the most airplanes on time while continuously improving their process over multiple iterations based on inspecting and adapting their production line.
- The document concludes with recapping the key lessons around how the activity simulated real-world
Presented in BSPIN Conference (http://bspin.org/conference2014/) on "Succeeding in SMAC World". Had great interactions and glad to see great interest on Agile Testing concepts with Participants.
This document outlines a model for a sustainable agile transformation within an organization. It begins with an overview of agile basics and scaling agile approaches. It then discusses why agile transformations are difficult, focusing on achieving safety from different stakeholder perspectives. The model proposes defining an operational framework structured around teams, products, and services. It recommends introducing change incrementally, starting with independent pilot teams, and measuring improvement through coaching and assessment. The transformation aims to tie back to business drivers like predictability, quality, and early return on investment.
Agile Business Day 2020 - Refinement- Unlock the full potential of your refi...Derk-Jan de Grood
Good refinement makes development more predictable, leads to better solutions and enables the Product Owner to set the right priorities. Still many teams fail to unlock the full potential of refinement. Join this session to get practical tips to get more out of your refinement sessions.I have guided many teams during their transition toward Agile. Initially most attention went to the ceremonies and understanding the agile values. Experience taught me that when the team gets up to speed refinement becomes a bottleneck. Crucial because good refinement makes development more predictable, leads to better solutions and enables the Product Owner to set the right priorities.Unfortunately, I see many teams that do not unlock the full potential of refinement. Not only is the time spent on refinement often limited, many of the refinement meetings I join are inefficient. I meet teams that spent half the meeting watching the Product Owner entering the new backlog items in the workflow system. Although they poker the user stories afterwards, little time is left to discussions the best solution and risks that need to be avoided.In this talk I will focus on the following topics• Advantages of good refinement and what I see in daily practise• How we can boost the potential of Refinement by organising it as a process rather than a meeting• Introduction of challenging questions that can be used to prepare your refinement• And last but not least, how you can involve the off-site team members of distributed teamsJoin this session if you are an Agile Coach of SM and want to help your team(s) to get more out of refinement. If you are a PO and feel a need to boost quality and predictability, or if you are a member of a distributed team and want to involve your fellow team members making better solutions.
This document provides an overview of different software development processes including the waterfall model, iterative model, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and Agile Development Process (ADP). It describes the key aspects of each process including phases, roles, artifacts, and ceremonies. Specifically, it provides detailed explanations of Scrum, an agile methodology, including Scrum roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, ceremonies like the Daily Scrum, and artifacts like the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. The document concludes with references for further information.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing work with an emphasis on iterative development and collaboration. It uses sprints, daily stand-ups, backlogs and emphasizes adaptive planning and evolutionary development. Key roles include the product owner, scrum master and development team. Sprints involve planning, daily stand-ups and a review at the end where the completed increment is demonstrated. The process aims to deliver working software frequently to gain feedback and continuously improve the product.
This document provides an overview of the Agile (Scrum) methodology. It describes Scrum as a framework for project management that uses short development cycles called sprints. Key aspects of Scrum covered include roles like the product owner and scrum master, meetings like the daily scrum and sprint review, and terminology such as user stories, product backlog, and burn-down charts. The document outlines benefits of Agile like improved visibility and quality, as well as some potential disadvantages around documentation and management effort.
Tester’s considerations when moving towards successful CI/CDDerk-Jan de Grood
These are the slides of the tutorial I gave at QA&Testing in Bilbao on 17 October 2018
Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) empowers organizations to bring their solution in production fast and frequent. This interactive session will share the benefits of this concept and introduce eight conditions that need to be met in order to make CI/CD a success. After this brief introduction, we will make small groups and explore these conditions, exchange experiences and you will get an understanding what needs to be improved in your organization. Talk to your peers and learn where they stand. Of course each of the groups will share their learnings, so we all go home with an understanding of how you can benefit from CI/CD and what needs to be done to make it work.
Finally we will see what test strategy we would advise if our company would decide to move towards CI/CD and this cover we consider much more than just automate our tests…
Agile development focuses on effective communication, customer collaboration, and incremental delivery of working software. The key principles of agile development according to the Agile Alliance include satisfying customers, welcoming changing requirements, frequent delivery, collaboration between business and development teams, and self-organizing teams. Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile process model that emphasizes planning with user stories, simple design, pair programming, unit testing, and frequent integration and testing.
The document introduces agile software development methods. It discusses the goals of being able to speak confidently about agile and provide solutions to problems teams face. The agenda covers introductions to agile principles, roles, planning, reporting, retrospectives, and estimating. Popular agile methods like Scrum and XP are explained. The roles of product managers and product owners are compared.
The document provides an overview of agile development, including its principles, types of agile methods, tools that support agile development, and when projects are well-suited to agile. It defines agile development as an iterative approach performed by self-organizing teams to produce high-quality software through early delivery and response to changing needs. The principles emphasize things like customer satisfaction, frequent delivery, collaboration, trusting motivated individuals, and responding to change.
The document provides an overview of the waterfall model and agile methodologies for software development projects. It discusses:
- The linear sequential phases of the waterfall model and when it is suitable.
- Issues with the waterfall model like inability to handle changes and lack of testing throughout.
- Benefits of agile like ability to adapt to changes, early delivery of working software, and improved success rates.
- Key aspects of the Scrum agile framework like sprints, daily stand-ups, and product backlogs.
- Differences in how development costs are treated as capital expenditures or operating expenses between waterfall, agile, and cloud-based models.
The document discusses Agile SCRUM project development methodology. It provides an overview of SCRUM principles and processes including short iterative development cycles called sprints, daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, tracking sprint backlogs and burn downs, sprint reviews and retrospectives. The roles of product owners, scrum masters and self-organizing cross-functional teams are also summarized.
The document discusses different project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches. It provides details on frameworks for scaling Agile like SAFe and LeSS. Studies have shown that Agile projects have a higher success rate of delivering on time and on budget compared to Waterfall. Scaling Agile involves frameworks to coordinate large programs involving multiple Agile teams through elements like program increment planning and aligning teams.
The document provides an overview of Scrum, an agile software development framework. It defines Scrum, discusses its history and introduction. It describes the Scrum framework, including roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, events like sprint planning and review, and artifacts like product and sprint backlogs. It outlines the Scrum process and provides examples of Scrum applications. It discusses advantages like adaptability and faster delivery, and disadvantages like lack of documentation. It concludes that Scrum is popular for experienced teams that can self-organize, but requires strict adherence to be effective.
The document discusses testing in agile projects through a case study. It presents four case examples of companies using agile methodologies and discusses both benefits and challenges of testing in agile projects. Specifically, it notes that agile practices like incremental development help ensure quality at the end of each iteration. However, agile also demands discipline from teams and individuals and can be difficult for testers accustomed to more traditional roles. The document concludes that in agile, testing is a function all team members contribute to rather than a separate role.
- Scrum is an agile framework for managing complex projects using short development cycles ("sprints"), regular inspection of progress, and adaptation to change. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, and incremental delivery of work.
- Key Scrum roles include the Product Owner who prioritizes features, the Development Team who implements them, and the Scrum Master who facilitates the process.
- Core Scrum activities are Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, which focus the team and enable inspection and adaptation.
- The Product Backlog contains prioritized features and the Sprint Backlog contains work for the current Sprint. A Burn Down Chart tracks progress. Scrum
Scrum is an agile framework for managing projects that emphasizes transparency, inspection, and adaptation. The key roles in Scrum are the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development Team. The Product Owner manages the Product Backlog of features and priorities. The Scrum Master coaches the team and removes impediments. The Development Team works in short Sprints to deliver working software. Key Scrum events include Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives. Artifacts include the Product and Sprint Backlogs, as well as impediment and parking logs. Together, these roles, events, and artifacts aim to deliver working software frequently through an empirical process of transparent inspection and adaptation.
Keys to Successful Cohabitation: Governance and Autonomous TeamsDevOps.com
Our release management processes and teams are there to try to protect us from failure and disaster, but when we want to accelerate our velocity, they can seem to get in the way. Current best practices that optimize value streams move toward smaller, autonomous teams who are responsible for every aspect of delivery and risk management. But how can we do that without compromising our governance and introducing risk?
Join Helen Beal, a self-described ‘DevOpsologist’ at Ranger4 and Jeff Keyes, VP of Product at Plutora, to learn about:
Why autonomous teams and centralized governance can live together;
How organizations evolve to release frequently and safely on demand;
What happens to release managers in a decentralized model;
The technology that supports us in making risk-informed decisions.
This document provides an overview of agile project management techniques. It covers introductions to agile, lean software development, Kanban, test-driven development, and Scrum. Each section defines the technique, describes key elements and processes, and discusses pros and cons. The document aims to teach learners about popular agile frameworks and how they can be applied to software development projects. Assessment will include case studies, videos, and quizzes.
The document provides an overview of agile software development. It discusses the goals of agile, which include gaining an understanding of agile principles and practices. The agenda covers topics like the agile manifesto, roles like product owners and scrum masters, planning practices like backlogs and sprints, reporting, and problems that can occur with agile. Resources for learning more about agile are also provided.
The document provides an introduction to agile software development processes. It discusses the waterfall model and iterative and incremental model. It then defines agile as a collection of iterative development methodologies that are lightweight and value individuals, interactions, working software, and responding to change. The document outlines agile principles and practices like user stories, story points, test-driven development, pair programming, daily stand-up meetings, story boards, burn down charts, continuous integration, and retrospectives. It concludes with feedback from an agile team noting benefits like earlier defect detection but also challenges in applying new techniques and lack of product management involvement.
Introduction to Agile and Lean Software DevelopmentThanh Nguyen
The document provides an introduction to agile and lean software development. It discusses traditional vs agile development, defines agile as iterative and incremental using a plan-do-check-act approach with empowered cross-functional teams relying on automation. It covers the agile manifesto, principles and core practices including short iterations, deming's PDCA model, and the agile software development lifecycle. Lean concepts are introduced such as eliminating waste, amplifying learning, deciding late and delivering fast to empower teams and build integrity.
The document provides an overview of the agile software development process. It begins with defining agile as an iterative and adaptive approach to software development performed collaboratively by self-organizing teams. It then discusses agile principles like valuing customer collaboration, responding to change, and delivering working software frequently. The document also covers specific agile frameworks like Scrum and Extreme Programming, the role of user stories, estimation techniques like planning poker, and ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives. It concludes by comparing agile to the traditional waterfall model and defining some common agile metrics.
The document provides an overview of the Scrum process. Some key points:
- Scrum is an agile process that focuses on delivering high business value in short iterations through inspecting working software every 2-4 weeks. The business prioritizes features.
- Roles include the Product Owner who manages the product backlog, Scrum Master who facilitates the process, and cross-functional team.
- Artifacts include the product backlog, sprint log/burndown chart, task board, and velocity/capacity metrics.
- Activities include sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demo/review, and retrospective meetings. Definitions of ready, done are established along with team values.
The Agile Readiness Assessment Tool EssayHeidi Owens
This report discusses Scrum, an agile software development methodology. It describes the key roles in Scrum - Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development Team. It also outlines the core Scrum events - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. The report examines the Scrum process and how it aims to deliver working software frequently through short development cycles called sprints. It emphasizes that Scrum provides structure through its roles, events, and artifacts while allowing flexibility through its iterative approach.
Kumar Rajasekaran presented learnings from scaled agile implementations. Key topics included transitioning from a business process to an execution process, implementing a release train with focus on tools, metrics, user experience, agile coaching, trainings and workshops, and conducting agility assessments from team to program level. Challenges included priority/scope change management, sprint cycle duration, acceptance criteria, dependencies, capacity planning and standardization. Opportunities included delivering working software, aligning delivery to business value, and improving test practices.
About Agile & PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) OverviewAleem Khan
A properly implemented Agile method increases the speed of development, aligns individual and organization objectives, creates a culture driven by performance, supports shareholder value creation, achieves stable and consistent communication of performance at all levels, and enhances individual development and quality of life.
This document discusses an overview of agile product management and scrum methodology. It covers the roles of product owner, scrum master and development team. It also describes scrum ceremonies like sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and retrospective. Additionally, it discusses techniques for backlog grooming, prioritization of user stories, mapping stories to sprints and releases. The goal is to provide a high-level understanding of agile product management concepts and processes.
This document provides an overview of process models and agile development approaches. It discusses the Unified Process (UP) and its phases including inception, elaboration, and more. Agile methods like Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) are also summarized. Scrum uses sprints, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives. XP practices pair programming, test-driven development, and frequent small releases. The document emphasizes that agile prioritizes individuals, working software, customer collaboration and responding to change over processes and tools.
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Overview
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Key Topics Covered
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12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
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What will you get from this session?
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2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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3. Workshop Objectives
Align with our clients on agile practices.
Set reasonable expectations
Mitigate difficulties of Distributed Agile Software
development
Agree on tools to be used, meetings to be held,
agile ceremonies to be practiced, etc.
Recommend Solutions based on our experience
Listen to the client’s concerns regarding agile
and come up with possible solutions.
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4. Workshop Agenda
Distributed Meeting Management
Roles
Agile Process
Alignment
o Scrum / Kanban
o Tracking
o Artifacts
o Quality, Velocity, and Definition of Done
Risks and their Management
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5. Meetings
As agile practitioners, we put individuals and interactions
over processes and tools. The use of video when
communicating improves the quality of interactions,
facilitates feedback and is the warmest kind of
communication we can have being distributed.
o Some tips to keep in mind: make sure lighting is adequate; orient
people to face the camera; individual cameras (versus room
cameras) are preferred.
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Video Usage
Tools we propose:
GoToMeeting
(recommended)
Skype
Google+
Screen sharing only:
Join.me
6. Roles & Responsibilities
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It’s important to clearly define roles and responsibilities when
starting any kind of project. When being distributed, even more!
Take the time to establish team and cross team roles and how
interactions are expected to happen.
Focus on have clear understanding of the following roles (at least):
o Product Owner
o ScrumMaster
o VP Team Lead
o Solutions Manager
o Client Stakeholders: who and what responsibilities?
o Other Roles: QA lead, build management, others?
7. Agile Process Alignment
Take time to discuss the following items in order to
be aligned
How agile is the group of people that the VP team will be interacting
with?
How agile do we want to be ?
Scrum Process and Meetings
o Sprint cadence: ? weeks
o Required meetings, timing, agenda, prep, and attendees.
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8. Agile Process Alignment
Choose appropriate tools to support agile practices in a
distributed model.
o E.g. TFS, JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Assembla, TargetProcess, etc.
o Document repository? (e.g. wiki, Google Drive, Confluence, etc.)
Go through the following discussions:
o Tracking Methods
o Deliverables and Artifacts
o Quality Practices
o Expected Velocity
o Definition of Done
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Tools
11. Scrum Meetings
Scrum proposes the following ceremonies
1. Product Planning
2. Release Planning
3. Sprint Pre-Planning (“grooming”)
4. Sprint Planning
5. Stand-up
6. Sprint Demonstration
7. Sprint Retrospective
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This doesn’t mean that they all will be useful in
our specific project.
12. Scrum Meetings
The key is choose the ones that we
consider will add value to our processes.
Inspect and adapt: remove unnecessary
meetings and add as necessary.
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13. Kanban Process
Overview of Process
Work States. Define them and make sure everyone
has a deep understanding of them.
Establish adequate WIP Limits.
Card Ownership.
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14. Tracking Methods / Development
Artifacts
Take time to sync up about the expected tracking
methods
Also sync up on understanding and importance of
concepts like velocity, story points, etc.
We find the following charts quite useful to
document the selected tracking methods.
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15. Tracking Methods
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Stories / PBIs Tasks
How is work estimated?
How is progress measured?
How is velocity measured? (not applicable)
What are the statuses?
Working at
task level?
Are bugs/defects treated differently than a story / task?
16. Development Artifacts
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Content and Format Who Does?
Tracking Board
User Story / PBI
Specification
(see next slide for example)
UI Design
Task / Card
Test Case
Ticket (for bug or
issue)
Documentation
(classic)
17. Software Quality Assurance
Development Process Improvement – KPIs, e.g.:
o Velocity
o Estimation accuracy
o Code quality
o Functional quality
o Others?
Quality Planning
o Role, if any, of stories and tasks in testing
Quality Practices
o Internal code quality
o Testing roles and practices
o Approaches and environments
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18. Testing
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Responsible Party Practices and Tools
Unit
Functional
System
Integration
Regression
Performance
Acceptance
Role of TDD / BDD
Environments to be used (dev, QA, staging, etc.)
Automation?
19. Expected Velocity
Establish velocity expectations from both sides.
The Velocity of the team will depend on a number of
variables, as the ones on the next slide. Make sure
both parties are aligned on the understanding and
importance of those variables.
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20. Expected Velocity
Ramp-up expectation (three iterations?)
Use of spikes in stories ?
Goal of first iterations: learning, delivery?
Approach to technical debt
Approach to changes during sprint
o Re-cap: changes in requirements
o Re-cap: changes in estimates and commitment
Absence planning (holidays and vacations)
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21. Definition of Done
This is an area of truly focus on when working
on distributed teams.
Make sure we are aligned on the Definition of
done criteria on the Task, Story, Sprint and
Release level.
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22. Definition of Done examples
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Task:
•Implemented
•Unit Tested
•Code commented
•In source trunk
•In CI build
•Coverage
•Standards met
•Tracked
•Other metrics?
Story:
•AC met
•All agreed tasks
done
•Functionally tested
•All known bugs
fixed
•Documented for
user view
•Story test updated
•Integration tested
•Installation works
•Smoke-tested
Sprint:
•Sprint end date
reached
•Completed stories
demo’d
•Retrospective held
and documented
•Product backlog
updated
•Performance tested
•Regression suite
updated
•All bugs closed or
postponed
•Documented for tech.
view
Release:
•All agreed sprints
done
•Integration tested /
hardened
•Documentation
“tested”
•Install packages
complete
•Release notes
•Marketing collateral
•Regression test
complete
•External testing
•PO sign-off
23. Risk Management
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Be aware of risks involved in agile development, and
take into account that being distributed sometimes
add more risks.
This is our introduction to Risk Management in 2 steps.
o 1 Awareness of possible risks.
o 2 Assessment and mitigation plan.
24. Possible Risks
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Needs
•Product Owner participation and clarity / distance from business customer
•Incomplete acceptance criteria
•Developers unclear / unquestioning during story elucidation
Plan
•Expectations for ramp-up
•Unrealistic, business-driven deadlines
•Planning at too high a level / inaccurate estimations
Commit-
ment
•Commitments when there should not be commitments
•No measures of productivity
Delivery
•Velocity / blockers early warnings and visibility
•Not enough time / attention to functional testing
•Poor definition of / adherence to agile processes, e.g. mid-sprint changes
25. Risk Assessment
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Risk Area Specific Risk Priority
(H/M/L)
Mitigation Strategy
Communication
(access, infrastructure, response, 3rd parties, etc.)
Requirements
(client or team participation, too many layers,
incomplete acceptance criteria)
Planning
(ramp-up / deadline expectations, planning too
high, poor estimating)
Commitment
(team being “sure”, lack of metrics)
Delivery
(attention to blockers, lack of QA, adherence to
agile processes)
Personnel
(roles, skills, motivation, conflict)
Other
26. Workshop Action Plan
Specific Action Items
o Action Item #1: (establish ad hoc meetings for example)
Future Use of Workshop Output
o Use #1:
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Workshop Retrospective
What went well?
What didn’t go well?
How can we improve the workshop for the next time?
27. Thank you !!
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www.velocitypartners.net
info@velocitypartners.net
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