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1 Copyright 2015 Gerard Meszaroshttp:/Agile2015.gerardm.com

Talk Ain’t EasyRound-the-World Agile Without any Talk

Gerard MeszarosIndependent Consultant

CTO of [email protected]

These slides: http://Agile2015.gerardm.com


Agenda

FeedXL Background

FeedXL 2.0

How We Work

A Day in the Life

Key Learnings

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Product & I.T.

I.T.

EmbeddedTelecom

My Background

Gerard [email protected]

•Software developer

•Development manager

•Project Manager

•Software architect

•OOA/OOD Mentor

•Requirements (Use Case) Mentor

•XP/TDD Mentor

•Agile PM Mentor

•Test Automation Consultant & Trainer

•Lean/Agile Coach/Consultant


Product & I.T.

I.T.

EmbeddedTelecom

My Background

•Software developer

•Development manager

•Project Manager

•Software architect

•OOA/OOD Mentor

•Requirements (Use Case) Mentor

•XP/TDD Mentor

•Agile PM Mentor

•Test Automation Consultant & Trainer

•Lean/Agile Coach/Consultant Gerard [email protected]

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Before FeedXL: X’Prime

PhD Project: Rod

Sue

ArmidaleWinnipeg


Before FeedXL: X’Prime

PhD Project:

Armidale

Sue

Rod

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X’Prime + Equilize = FeedXL (JV)

Rod

Nerida


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FeedXL 1.0 EvolutionPasture BuilderNew pricing modelJira integrationMore Nutrients andRatiosMore diseasesDiscount Coupons


After 5 years of FeedXL’ing

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Rod

Rod’s “Personal Pivot”Gerard


Slack

Syncconvo

Integration

Integration

Topic“channels”

Direct Msg’ing

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Agenda

FeedXL Background

FeedXL 2.0

How We Work

A Day in the Life

Key Learnings


FeedXL 2.0

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Getting Started – Software Archeology


Getting Started – Technology Stack

Browser Server Services

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Getting Started – Tools Stack

And a lot of manualprocesses to deploy to:


Deployment Architecture

Jira

PayPal

MaxMind

AuthSMTP

Betabeta.my.feedxl.com

Prod MySQL

PHPForums

ELB

LoadBal1

LoadBal2my.feedxl.com

forums.feedxl.com

AWS EC2

MainPublic1feedxl.com

Public2ELB

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Outsourced Development – 1st Attempt

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WebCo

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Outsourced Development – 1st Attempt

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Get the Wrong Person off the Bus!

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Outsourced Development – 2nd Attempt

AA

Vikram

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Outsourced Development – 2nd Attempt


Introducing Business Unit Tests

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Third Outsourcing ExperienceCsaba


Improving End-to-End TestsNew Diet Can Be Added

Open the horses and diets pageSelect First Existing HorseSelect PasturesCreate DietVerify SummaryPrint And Save

Existing Diet Can Be UpdatedOpen the horses and diets pageSelect First Existing HorseSelect PasturesSelect Existing DietVerify SummaryPrint And Save

Keywords:

Open the horses and diets pageClick Element horsesAndDietsWait Until Page Contains horseMethodSelect

Select First Existing HorseOpen Horse ListClick Element css=#horseList > ul > li:first-childWait Until Page Contains Element css=#horseDetails .horseDetailsTableClick Element wizardNext

RobotFramework

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University Project

100 KMApart

Canmore Calgary

10,000 KMApart

Cultural Difference


Agenda

FeedXL Background

FeedXL 2.0

How We Work

A Day in the Life

Key Learnings

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Communication Tools

PicPick


Development Process & Tools

RobotFramework

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Planning Board

(Installed)

(Cloud-based)


Acceptance Testing

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Development


Ready for Assignment

#NoEstimates

Backgroundwork for devs

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Ready for Prioritization


Understand & Specify

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Product Backlog


Continuous IntegrationFeature Branchescreate problems!

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Agenda

FeedXL Background

FeedXL 2.0

How We Work

A Day in the Life

Key Learnings


A Day in the Life of FeedXL

Alberta New Zealand Australia India Romania

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Let’s see whathappened overnight.Any tickets?

@gerard, have aquestion for you ….

@vik, can you ….?




Let’s see whathappened overnight.Any tickets?Business stuff

Feature designBusiness stuffFeature design

@Sue, @nerida,question for you ….

@nerida, ticket for u

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Business stuffFeature designBusiness stuffFeature design

@vishal: re …




Good morningeveryone….

Did sometesting ….

GoodmorningFeedXL

Can someonehelp me…

Boys, we trashedyou in cricket

yesterday!

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I’m headed to bedsoon; last call forquestions.

I need to go towork; see you alltomorrow.Deployed

a fix….




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I’m back in; didsome testing…any questions?

I ‘m done for theday; see you alltomorrow.

1:30 PM6:00 PM8:00 PM2:00 AM 11:00 AM




Let’s see whathappened overnight.Any tickets?

@gerard, have aquestion for you ….

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Agenda

FeedXL Background

FeedXL 2.0

How We Work

A Day in the Life

Key Learnings


Planning vs. Plans

Need agraphic for aProject Plane.g. Gantt orPert Chart

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Improving Customer Support


Deciding What to Build is Hard

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Communication Somewhat Less So


Communication & Relationships

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Documentation: Just Enough, JIT

Needs it, Writes it

Needs it, Reads it,Fixes bugs

Etc.


Outsourcing can be very cost-effective

Csaba

Vikram VishalAgile FAQs

Ipso lorem …

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Get the Wrong Person off the Bus!

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Cloud-Based Env Ideal for Distr’d Team

Jenkins

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Results


Next Steps

LoadTesting

Mobile Devices

CD Tools

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Thank You!Gerard Meszaros

[email protected]://www.xunitpatterns.com

Slides: http://Agile2015.gerardm.com

Call me when you:• Want to transition to Agile or Lean• Want to do Agile or Lean better• Want to teach developers how to test• Need help with test automation strategy• Want to improve your test automation

Jolt Productivity Awardwinner - Technical Books

Available on MSDN:


Product Design (What to Build?)• Word Docs• Excel Spreadsheets• Originally: Axure• Added: HotGloo “clickable” UI prototypes

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Development Process: Agile (of course!)• LeanKit board for management• Spreadsheets, UI Prototypes, Word Docs for

getting agreement on requirements


Code Branching Strategy and BuildPipeline• Gitflow

• Branch per feature (deployed each to dev //)• Merge into Release and deploy to Staging• Deploy Release to Beta• Deploy to Production

• Picture from Deployment Guide

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