Even when the scope, the budget and the schedule of a project is fixed, there are plenty of dimensions on which you have freedom. This presentation relates the story of a project that explored some of those other dimensions by adopting various agile aproaches.

1. Fixed Price,
Fixed Scope and
Fixed Date Project
Agile practices in real life project

2. Agenda
- Chapter I : Introduction
- Chapter II : Kanban
- Chapter III : Restrospectives
- Chapter IV : Testing

3. Sophie
@sofzbxl
sophie.decarriere@ictcg.com
be.linkedin.com/in/sophiedecarriere/

4. Gilles
@gscokart
gilles.scokart@oniryx.be
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gscokart

5. Scope
Price
Schedule
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6. Don’t Fall in the trap !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/

7. There are many
more dimensions
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8. That’s the subject of this presentation

9. Team
Collaboration
Fun
Excellence
Improvements

10. Sharing Lessons Learned
By Jurgen Appelo

11. What we
learned
- Kanban
- Retrospectives
- Testing

12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ghislainmary/
MOSS - Fix Price
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ghislainmary/

13. MOSS - Fix scope
● Functional Specs
● Technical Specs
● Tests Specifications
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14. MOSS - Fix Date
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/

15. 1 Specs -
26 Implementations
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16. MOSS - Heterogenous team

17. MOSS - Technologies

18. Any reflections ?
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19. Chapter II : Kanban
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kawade/

20. Inherited Task board

21. https://www.flickr.com/photos/clagnut/
Retrospective : DONE Definition

22. DONE Definition

23. QA was a bottleneck
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24. Solution
Limit
Work
In
Progress
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25. Limit the WIP

26. Problem 2 : Envisioning is the bottleneck

27. Next change :
Merge
Envisioning/Design
& Realisation
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28. Problem 3 : Non push <> pull system

29. Pull from the need
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30. Pull System

31. Thinking Further
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32. Non Stories - Doesn’t fit
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33. Stories well defined goes quickly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adabo/

34. Unclear Items are slow
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35. Response:
Big picture

36. Learning
Reflect against your
Kanban

37. Chapter III : The Retrospectives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kubina/

38. starting point : open a space and provide tools
https://www.flickr.com/photos/philgyford/

39. in social housing ...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicohogg/

40. From outside
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41. Co-Sensing

42. https://www.flickr.com/photos/msvg/

43. To inside
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagezen

44. Co-construct shared knowledge from the inside
https://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit

45. Start by appropriating the
stories
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46. The global process: play
with the business

47. The global process: a
guideline

48. Time Management
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49. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t

50. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman

51. What I learned
The knowledge comes from the inside, not from
the outside.
Shared knowledge may improve autonomy,
initiative and creativity.

52. Testing Aproach
The research of the quality

53. Fixed Price
Fixed Scope
Flexibility
Fixed Date
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuck/

54. Fixed Price
It will be a long road
Fixed Scope
Flexibility
Fixed Date
https://www.flickr.com/photos/james_wheeler/

55. High quality is
the only way
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lafiebredeloro/

56. Let’s try something : BDD
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imipolexg/

59. Adaptation : Remote Steps

60. https://www.flickr.com/photos/heycoach/

61. Test API is good
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90155419@N00/

62. BDD is very
useful in
Demo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/

63. Very useful to define DONE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/comedynose/

64. But didn’t worked for us as support for discussion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jirka_matousek/

65. Useful for regression test and bug fixing
https://www.flickr.com/photos/coofdy/

66. Two levels of
testing

67. Unit Test
Junit + JMock
=> Quick feed back
=> Design Feed-back

68. But it is hard with complex
data !
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69. Testing data
Use Builders, with Chain of methods
reg = aRegistration()
.of(aNonEU())
.excluded(lastYear())
.value();

70. Conclusions
Quality is Free
(in some context)

71. Shared by :
https://be.linkedin.com/in/sophiedecarriere
https://be.linkedin.com/in/gscokart
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/