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Building Cloud Apps using Agile Methodology & Tools

Steve Greene VP, Products & Technology Program Management Salesforce.com

Sue Vickers Principal Product Manager for CA Agile Vision CA Technologies


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Agenda

  Salesforce Agile Transformation

  Principles of Agile Development

  Building CA Agile Vision product using Agile

  CA Agile Vision overview & demo

  Key Features & demo of CA Agile Vision

  Q&A


Lack of visibility



Resource Bottlenecks


Unpredictable completion of projects or initiatives



Lack of responsiveness, lack of team alignment on priorities



Infrequent Customer Feedback



2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Features Delivered per Team

Days between Major Releases


What did we do about it?



What is ADM?

ADM (Adaptive Delivery Methodology)

Salesforce.com flavor of agile

Scrum project management framework

XP practices

Based on Lean principles


Self-organized, empowered teams



What is ADM? Build software every 30 days



Transparency



ADM / Scrum Lifecycle

Daily Scrum Meeting

Sprint Review: Demo Potentially Releasable New Functionality

Product Backlog

Sprint Backlog

Retrospective


2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Features Delivered per Team

Days between Major Releases

Transformation Results


Agile & Productivity

Teamwork

Automation

Continuous Integration

Test-Driven Development

Code Review / Pair Programming


Principles of Agile Development   User Story – Requirement that is small enough to be

completed in one dev cycle such as 2-3 weeks   Epic – Parent User Story   Backlog – list of all user stories for the product   Iterations/Sprint – Dev cycle spanning about 2-3 weeks   Daily Standup – daily meeting to provide team member

updates   Tasks – subtasks of a user story where the actual work is

completed   Story Points – S/M/L type sizing of user stories   Burndown Chart – Chart displaying the amount of work

remaining in the sprint


Building CA Agile Vision the Agile Way

  Current Release: Spring 2011 (4th release), Sprint 11 underway

  The team –  QA : 4

–  Dev: 5

–  Product Owner: 1

–  Scrummaster: 1

–  Tech Pubs: 1

  12 2-week sprints –  Last two sprints are Stablization and RTM

–  Beta overlaps sprints 11-12


Agile Project Performance   QA is part of the sprint   Points do not count at all if a PBI is not completely

done (including development, testing, fixing bugs, and validating fixes)

  Velocity fluctuates based on holidays, resources, sustaining.


Working within our Governance Process

  Scheduled gates to match up with sprint completion   Corporate beta overlap sprint 11 and 12 using sprint 10

product   RTM Process after completing stabilization sprint #   During RTM period the team completed documentation

of their code   Stakeholder demo every 2 sprints   No separate sustaining team, so need to handle

production issues and manage building new features in same team. Strain on velocity.


  Don’t forget sprint zero   Be flexible – US west coast day ends as China begins

work   Let the team self-govern and learn how to work together   Break backlog items down as much as possible to get

complete closure during a sprint

  Don’t forget sprint zero

  Plan for spikes to design features that are more complex

Lessons Learned


CA Agile Vision Overview

•  Inline create, edit, decompose, prioritize, rank, and estimate project, release and sprint backlog

• Assign resources, and update progress for user stories and tasks.

Create and manage requirements for Agile

projects

•  Intuitive UI to create multiple time-based sprints, assign backlog, and monitor sprint progress.

• Virtual wall of requirements

Facilitate sprint planning in an Agile

planning process

• Burn-down chart with velocity, velocity-based forecasting

• Personalized views and dashboards

Collaborative workspace for daily stand-up meetings

Agile Vision Overview


Overview Demo: CA Agile Vision


Key Features

  Drag n drop Backlog Management   Virtual Wall to manage tasks   Track team member allocation   Inline editing – developer productivity   Track work across products   Charts & Custom Reports


Features Demo: CA Agile Vision


Additional Resources   Agile for Dummies e-book – Will provided to all attendees in the

follow-up email

  Develop Force Community

–  http://developer.force.com

–  Agile Whitepaper: http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Agile_Development_Meets_Cloud_Computing

  CA Agile Vision - http://ca.com/agile

–  CA Agile Community

–  Submit and vote on ideas

–  30 Day trial available at ca.com/agile


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