Agile 101

Liz Keogh@lunivore

Queued In progress Done

A new look at

Waterfall

FeedbackLoops XP

Starting out

What is Agile?

What is Agile?

We are uncoveringbetter ways

of developing softwareby doing it

and helping others do it.

Individuals and interactionsover

processes and tools

Working softwareover

comprehensive documentation

Customer collaborationover

contract negotiation

Responding to changeover

following a plan

Scrum Extreme ProgrammingDSDM

Crystal

Clear

FeatureDriven

Development

Queued In progress Done

A new look at

Waterfall

FeedbackLoops Scrum

The Planning

Game

What is Agile?

What is Agile?

A new look at

Waterfall

GettingStarted

Anal

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Cost of change over time on a really nasty Waterfall project

In waterfall, we try to get everything right up front

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Where does this curve come from?

Assumption: Software projects are best managed like Civil Engineering projects

What if that wasn’t true?

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Cost of change over time on a really nasty Waterfall project

Cost of change over time on a very nice Agile project

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Actual cost of change

Make sure you get it right

Assume you got it wrong

Queued In progress Done

FeedbackLoops XP

The Planning

Game

A new lookat

Waterfall

What is Agile?

A new look at

Waterfall

Feedbackloops

GettingStarted

Developer

IDE

UnitTests

Pair ProgrammerAcceptance

Tests

ContinuousIntegration / Deployment

Developer

Tester

Business

Users

As much as we can, as often as we can

Collaboration

Conversation

Queued In progress Done

Scrum

The Planning

Game

FeedbackLoops

What is Agile? A new look

at Waterfall

FeedbackLoops

Scrum

GettingStarted

Planning meeting

Stand-ups

Development

Testing

Showcase

Planning meeting

…

Sprint / Iteration

(1 or 2 weeks)

Retrospective

Backlog Development Test Ready

Planning meetingStand-ups

Development

Testing

Showcase

Retrospective

Backlog Development Test Ready

Queued In progress Done

The Planning

Game

ScrumThe

Planning Game

What is Agile? A new look

at Waterfall

FeedbackLoops

Scrum

GettingStarted

Done

Definition of “Done”

Estimate in points

1 2 3 5

How many last sprint?

1 2 3 5

Are we comfortablewith what

we’ve signed up for?

Queued In progress Done

The Planning

Game

What is Agile? A new look

at Waterfall

FeedbackLoops

Scrum

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

The Planning

Game

Visualize the Workflow

Backlog Development Test Ready

Pick some high priority (or high risk!) items

Work towards a showcase

Backlog Development Test Ready

15 minutes daily stand-ups

Retrospective

Backlog Development Test Ready

What made getting here hard?What would have made it easier?

Liz Keoghhttp://lizkeogh.com@lunivore