Agile is more than just iterations. This presentation re-introduces the full set of Agile Practices of Extreme Programming or XP.

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Mark Windholtz
ObjectWind Software Ltd

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Who Am I
♦ Mark Windholtz
♦ ObjectWind Software Ltd
♦ 14 years Building Professional Software
♦ Business, Medical, Engineering, Military
♦ First contact with XP in Oct 1996
♦ Started Six XP teams
♦ Consulted for Eight other XP teams

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Delivering to Deadline
XP is about delivering to deadline.
Every two weeks you release something
and every two weeks you check your plan.
You get really good at getting stuff done.
- James Grenning, ObjectMentor

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A Local XP Team

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What Management Gets
♦ Management gets …
– An Overall release plan (What, when, and how much)
– Most value out of each programming week
– Visible Progress: code running repeatable tests
– To Change direction as business changes
– Be informed early of schedule changes

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What Programmers Get
♦ Programmers are …
– told what is needed in priority order
– Allowed to produce quality work
– Allowed to ask for help
– Allowed to make and update estimates
– Allowed to accept responsibility

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Business to Code Process
Product is a bunch of …
Release is a bunch of …
Iteration is a bunch of …
Acceptance Test is a bunch of …
Task is a bunch of …
Episode is a bunch of …
Test is a bunch of …
Code

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Time Scale
♦ Product: Years
♦ Release: Month(s)
♦ Iteration: Week(s)
♦ Acceptance Test: Small piece of Biz value
♦ Task: Technical task
♦ Episode: 1-3 hours then integrate
♦ Test: 1 to 5 minutes
♦ Code: 0 to 20 minutes to satisfy test case

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Release Planning Game
(Exploration )
“Too Big”
Split
the Story
(Customer)
Write a Story
(Customer)
Spike
the Story
(Programmers)
Estimate
a Story
(Programmers)
“Don’t Know”
Go to Planning
♦ Goal
– Understand what the system is to do
♦ Result
– A working set of estimates

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Release Planning Game
(Planning )
Choose
Scope
(Customer)
Sort Stories
by Value
(Customer)
Declare
Velocity
(Programmers)
♦ Goal
– Plan the next Release so it gives the most bang
for the buck.
♦ Input
– Set of estimated stories
♦ Result
– A prioritized list of stories currently planned to
by included in next release

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Iteration Planning Game
( finding a fit )
♦ Biz
– Scope
– Priority
– Features per
Release
– Date of Release
♦ Tech
– Estimates
– Consequences
– Process
– Detailed Schedule
Feature Requests
Estimates & Budget
What’s in / What’s out

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Time Scale
♦ Product: Years
♦ Release: Month(s)
♦ Iteration: Week(s)
♦ Acceptance Test: Small piece of Biz value
♦ Task: Technical task
♦ Episode: 1-3 hours then integrate
♦ Test: 1 to 5 minutes
♦ Code: 0 to 20 minutes to satisfy test case

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XP Episode Cycle
analysis
test
code
design
( refactor )
discuss with user
integrate or toss

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Velocity
♦ Tasks are estimated
– 1 to 3 ideal days
– Measured in relative task points
♦ How many task points were done?
♦ Historical velocity data
– Rough (but real) predictor future progress
– Cost, scope, schedule

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What is Progress?
♦ A Task is either Done or Not Done
– 70% done is meaningless
♦ Done means done!
– Done but not tested is meaningless
– Done but not integrated is meaningless
♦ Code is written in small, running pieces
♦ No large leaps forward in a fog …
… and falling off a cliff

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Unit Tests
♦ All production code is tested
♦ Tests provide incremental certitude
♦ Test graph
– Rough measure of accomplishment
– Quick indicator of a stalling project

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Unit & Functional Tests: 7/30
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Total Tests:
Unit & Functional
Functional
Test Count
Iteration 012 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

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Unit & Functional Tests w/ Notes
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Added many new
team members
Moved from
PC to HP-Unix
Worked
longer
hours
Refactored
some tests
Optimized
How Tasks
were
Determined
Iteration 012 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

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Unit & Functional Tests: Feb 2002
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Iteration 30
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JUnit TestRunner in Eclipse

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Core Practices
Small Releases
Planning Game *
On-site Customer
Open Workspace
Continuous Integration
Collective Ownership
Sustainable Pace
Test-First *
Pair Programming *
Continuous Design Improvement
Simple Design
Coding Standard
Customer Programmer Team .
How to
Define Features Iteratively
How to
Build Features Iteratively
How to
Communicate & Schedule

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ObjectWind Services
♦ Agile Software Engineering Practices
– Your team, or
– Outsourced XP Projects
♦ Project Services
– Before: Design Reviews
– During: Project Reviews & Expert Coding
– After: Retrospectives (Lessons Learned)
♦ Training with Object Mentor
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