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Brian BoelsterliCREOSS Business Solutions

September, 2010

Agile for Business Advantage

Part 1 of 2


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Agenda

•Audience Survey

•Agile Primer

•Agile Benefits

•Agile Challenges

•Summary


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Audience Survey

•Three questions:

1. What software development methodology are you using now?

2. Are you considering moving to Agile method in the future?

3. Why? or why not?


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Agile Primer

http://etutorials.org/Microsoft+Products/Agile+Project+Management+with+Scrum/Chapter+1+Backdrop+The+Science+of+Scrum/Empirical+Process+Control/

Defined Process Control

Empirical Process ControlPredictive/Serial Adaptive/Evolutionary

Requires that every piece of work be completely understood. Given a well-defined set of inputs, the same outputs are generated every time. A defined process can be started and allowed to run until completion, with the same results every time.

Provides and exercises control through transparency,

frequent inspection and adaptation for processes that

are imperfectly defined and generate unpredictable and

unrepeatable outputs.




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Agile Primer“When the process is too complicated for the defined approach, the empirical approach is the appropriate choice”

B.A. Ogunnaike and W.H Ray, Process Dynamics, Modeling and Control

“In the long run, making successful products the first time using empirical process control turns out to be much cheaper than reworking unsuccessful products using defined process control.”

Ken Schwaber, Agile Project Management with Scrum

Empirical Process ControlAdaptive/Evolutionary






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Agile Primer

•On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile Software Development Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened

Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive

documentationCustomer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

The Agile Manifesto

Wow! This was almost 10 years ago!

http://agilemanifesto.org

http://agilemanifesto.org/

http://agilemanifesto.org/


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Agile PrimerPrinciples of the Agile Manifesto

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

• Highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery..

• Welcome changing requirements ...

• Deliver working software frequently ...with a preference to the shorter timescale.

• Business people and developers ...work together daily...

• Build projects around motivated individuals ...support they need and trust them to get the job done...

• ............more.....

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html


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Agile Primer

1-Transparency

2-Inspection

3-Adaptation

Empirical

Process Control

Adaptive





Principles of the Agile Manifesto


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Agile Primer

• John’s team: Waterfall

• Sequential (Analysis, Design, Construction, Test, Maintenance)

• Documentation centric and contract oriented

• Fragile to change

• “...Some of the things that we learn invalidate our design and we must backtrack.” David Parnas, in A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It

•Sally’s team: Agile

•Adaptive, collaborative, iterative, incremental, architecturally-driven

•Cross-functional teams, highly interactive

•Adaptation, Transparency, Inspection


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Agile Primer•AGILE Methods/Approaches

•Scrum - Ken Schwaber/Jeff Sutherland - focused on agile project management

•Extreme Programming - Kent Beck - focused on agile engineering

•Lean - Mary and Tom Poppendieck - focused on “lean” subculture concepts and Kanban

•Dynamic Systems Method Development- DSDM Consortium/UK - focused on RAD and agile project management

•Others (i.e., Crystal / FDD / RUP / EUP)http://agile.dzone.com/articles/software-development-methodolo

http://agile.dzone.com/articles/software-development-methodolo

http://agile.dzone.com/articles/software-development-methodolo


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Agile benefits• Recent SURVEY conducted...

• 1: QSMA (Michael Mah 2008) (http://www.qsma.com/index.shtml)

• Comparison of 26 agile projects to a database of 7500 primarily traditional projects

• 2: David Rico (2008) (http://davidfrico.com/)

• Survey of 51 published academic and research papers

• 3: VersionOne (2008)(www.versionone.com)

• Opt-in online survey of over 3k individuals

• 4: Dr. Dobb’s Journal (2008) (http://www.drdobbs.com)

• Opt-in online survey of over 642 individuals conducted by Scott Amblerhttp://www.succeedingwithagile.com/resources/reported-benefits-of-agile-2

http://www.versionone.com/

http://www.succeedingwithagile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Reported-Benefits-of-Agile.zip

http://www.succeedingwithagile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Reported-Benefits-of-Agile.zip


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Agile benefits•Productivity

•Cost

• Job satisfaction

•Time to market

•Quality

•Stakeholder satisfaction


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Benefit: Higher Productivity• Dr. Dobb’s:

• 82% productivity increase

• VersionOne:

• Significantly improved (23% of those surveyed)

• Improved (50% of those surveyed)

More productive

(16% of those

surveyed)


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Benefit: Lower Cost

Rico’s Literature SurveyOther surveyed results

Development Cost

DDJ VersionOne

Improved 32% 30%

Significantly Improved

5% 8%

Lowest Reported Improvement

MedianHighest

Reported Improvement

Productivity 14% 88% 384%

Cost 10% 26% 70%


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Benefit: Increased job Satisfaction •40% of Salesforce.com employees enjoying jobs (BEFORE

adopting Scrum)

•86% of Salesforce.com employees enjoying jobs (15 months AFTER adopting Scrum)

•92% would recommend Agile to others

•Note: According to a University of Calgary research report, 2/3 less overtime in Agile ecosystems


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Benefit: Faster time to market

•VersionOne Study

•65% improvement

•Another 23% significant improvement

•Michael Mah Study

•37% faster568% more value delivered in the

first year of being agile.


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Benefit: Higher quality• Rico Study

• 10% improvement (minimum)

• 63% improvement(median)

• Company trying Agile (Scrum):: ePlan Services

• 70% reduction of defect per 1,000 lines of code (after 9 months)

• Dr. Dobb’s Study

• Somewhat Higher satisfaction (47% of those surveyed)

• Much higher satisfaction (31% of those surveyed)

• VersionOne Study

• 44% improvement

• 24% significant improvement

• Defects

• 10% reduction (84% of those surveyed)

• 25% reduction (30% of those surveyed)


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Benefit: Improved stakeholder satisfaction•Dr. Dobb’s

Study

•Somewhat higher (47% of those surveyed)

•Much higher (31% of those surveyed)

VersionOne Study

ImprovedSignificantly

Improved

Enhanced ability to manage changing priorities

41% 51%

Improved project visibility 42% 41%

Improved alignment of IT and business goals

39% 27%

Reduced project risk 48% 17%


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Agile benefits•Higher Productivity

•Lower cost

• Improved job satisfaction

•Faster time to market

•Higher quality

• Improved stakeholder satisfaction


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Agile challenges• Business/IT Alignment

• Adoption

• Rigor

• Integrating Agile

• Velocity

• Sustainability

Part 2 of 2 presentation will do a deep dive in this....


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Summary• Audience Survey

• We learned about each other and our experiences with Agile

• Agile Primer

• We reviewed Empirical Process Control (transparency, Inspection, adaptation), Agile Manifesto and its principles and how these tie back to Empirical

• Agile Benefits

• We learned about benefits of agile such as higher productivity, lower costs, improved engagement and job satisfaction, faster time to market, higher productivity and stakeholder satisfaction

• Agile Challenges

• We discussed some of the challenges that come with Agile initiatives such as adoption, aligning business imperative with technology objective, rigor (or lack thereof), time management/meeting structures, geographic constraints and training


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Sources• Mike Cohn, Reported Benefits of Agile Development, 2008

• Ambler, Scott. 2008a. Agile adoption rate survey, February. http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileFebruary2008.html.

• Cohn, Mike. 2009. Succeeding with Agile: Software development using Scrum. Addison-Wesley.

• Greene, Steve, and Chris Fry. 2008. Year of living dangerously: How Salesforce.com delivered extraordinary results through a “big bang” enterprise agile revolution. Session presented at Scrum Gathering, Stockholm. http://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/scrum-gathering-2008-stockholm-salesforcecom-presentation.

• Mah, Michael. 2008. How agile projects measure up, and what this means to you. Cutter Consortium Agile Product & Project Management Executive Report 9 (9).

• Mann, Chris, and Frank Maurer. 2005. A case study on the impact of Scrum on overtime and customer satisfaction. In Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, 70–79. IEEE Computer Society.

• Rico, David F. 2008. What is the ROI of agile vs. traditional methods? An analysis of extreme programming, test-driven development, pair programming, and Scrum (using real options). A downloadable spreadsheet from David Rico’s personal website. http://davidfrico.com/agile-benefits.xls.

• VersionOne. 2008. The state of agile development: Third annual survey. Posted as a downloadable PDF in the Library of White Papers on the VersionOne website. http://www.versionone.com/pdf/3rdAnnualStateOfAgile_FullDataReport.pdf.

http://www.ambysoft.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/

http://davidfrico.com/agile-benefits.xls

http://www.versionone.com/pdf/3rdAnnualStateOfAgile_FullDataReport.pdf


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Take aways...•Ask us about our assessment process

•Stay for the afternoon session today we will cover challenges and techniques for addressing these challenges

•ADC and MKS familiar tooling support for implementing Agile with MKS Integrity ALM offering


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