Bill uses this presentation to give an overview of Agile Project Management and Software Development.

1. Classes
Agile3d Academy Coaching
Community
Compliance
Agile Landscape
Beginner’s Overview and Methods
AgileBill Krebs
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2. 1982 - Developer 1982; 1987 Performance
2001 – Agile
2007 - Certified Scrum Master (CSM), ‘08 CSP
2010 - MBTI, IGQI
2012 PMI-ACP
Masters in Education Technology in Progress
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3. Gartner Predicts that by the end of 2012, Agile development
methods will be used on 80% of software development projects.
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4. Why Agile ?
Quality (= Speed)
Reduce Risk
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5. Iron Triangle
Date
Scope Staff Scope
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6. AgileManifesto.org
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7. Three Benefits
82% had better productivity
Scott Ambler’s Feb 2008 Agile Adoption Survey
www.agilemodeling.com/surveys
642 respondents from Dr. Dobbs Journal
69 % Adopted Agile 77% had better Quality
78% had better stakeholder
Satisfaction
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9. Flavors of Agile
Agile
Iterative
Lean Kanban
Flow
XP RUP Rare
Tech Scales
Scrum
FDD DSDM Crystal
Project
Management 1 to 3% each
72%
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10. The Flow of the ‘Scrum’ Agile Process
• A box for each day
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12. Sococo
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13. XP
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15. Agile can be more productive
Capers-Jones
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16. Requirements
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17. Hierarchy of building blocks
Theme
Epic
Story
Task
(How)
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18. Ron Jefferies 3 ‘C’s
A User Story – Building Block
As an online shopper, I can ship to a friend
Card
Talk with Bob,
Conversation my stakeholder
Test: No more, No Less:
[x] Can retrieve friend’s address
Confirmation [ ] Can specify ship date and carrier
 [ ] Can track order
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19. RGB - Card details
Role Goal (Benefit)
I can see my patients So I don’t prescribe
As a doctor
medications conflicting drugs
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20. Project Management
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21. Example Team
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22. Prioritize
• Business Value
• Value and effort are independent
• No ties. Stack rank
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23. Estimate
Planning Poker
Wideband Delphi
Affinity Estimating
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24. Expected Variance in Velocity
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25. Release Plan: an ordered pile of stories
Conservative
In
Stretch At Best
Not in this release.
Out
Out
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26. A Sprint Calendar
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27. A Two Week Sprint
Product Backlog
Every day:
In Release
• Standup at task board
Process
• Pair, unit test, refactor, review
Stretch Retro
• Test, integrate, build, test
Later
Releases
m t w t f
Sprint Product
Backlog M T W T F Demo
Time
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30. Task Board
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32. A Sprint Calendar
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33. A Sprint Day
• Stand Up Meeting
• Repeat every few hours:
{ Unit Test, Code, Refactor, Review, Continuous Integration }
• QA – test early test often – inside the iteration
Team collaborates on the tasks vs individual efforts
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34. Automated build and test – big visible
indicators
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35. Automated Acceptance Testing (Fitnesse)
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36. A Sprint Calendar
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37. Agile Journey Index
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40. Three Keys to Agile
In
Stretch
Next Use a task board Watch the burn down
to Focus and Finish and Act if you get behind
Release
Don’t over promise
Overstuffing slows us down
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41. Learn More
agiledimensions .com
meetup .com / agile3d
Linkedin.com / in / BillKrebs
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