Delivering a win-win-win workforce with Agile programming methods

Ron Lichty, Ron Lichty Consultingwww.RonLichty.com

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Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom*

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Ron Lichty, consultant & trainer in Managing Software People & Teams

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“Doing What Matters for ICT Education”

• California Community College (CCC) ICT Collaborative:– enable students to meet ICT workforce needs

• Wins

– Students in demand in the workplace

– Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs

– Your ICT programs lauded

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Achieving Wins

• These three wins

– Students in demand in the workplace

– Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs

– Your ICT programs lauded

...cannot be achieved by teaching the “what” alone

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The Problems with Agile

• Too few practitioners

• Too many ingrained habits

• Agile practices are not easy

• Retooling programmers is tough

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Best Practices We Hire For• Scrum• Test Driven Development (TDD)• Pair Programming• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs• Rapid Relative Estimation• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally

– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning• Emergent Design• Practicing Pomodoros

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Where to Start?• Scrum• Test Driven Development (TDD)• Pair Programming• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs• Rapid Relative Estimation• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally

– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning

• Emergent Design• Practicing Pomodoros

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Test Driven Development (TDD)

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Test Driven Development (TDD)

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“There is evidence that doing TDD takes about 15% longer... But there is also evidence that TDD leads to fewer defects. Two studies at Microsoft found that the number of bugs found went down by 24% and 38% with the use of TDD (Sanchez, Williams, and Maximilien 2007, 6).”

--Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile

Pair Programming

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“Advocates of pair-programming are advocates because they believe that a pair is actually more productive than two separate developers. This is due to the continuous discussion and review that pairing introduces. You come up with better designs, make fewer mistakes, and make more people familiar with the code. All of these things offset having less people typing.”

--Martin Fowler, who wrote the book Refactoring

Pair Programming

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Best Practices We Hire For• Scrum• Test Driven Development (TDD)• Pair Programming• Collaborative Requirements Elicitation• Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs• Rapid Relative Estimation• Developing Iteratively and Incrementally

– With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning• Emergent Design• Practicing Pomodoros

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Ron Lichty Consulting

• Mentoring and Coaching and Consulting:– http://ronlichty.com/

• The book:

Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools & Insights

for Managing Software People & Teams– http://ManagingTheUnmanageable.net

• Training: now in development:– “Managing Software People and Teams: the class”– “The Agile Manager”(Email me through the site above and I’ll let you know when.)

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