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Technical backlog usage instructions at Kyiv Project Management Day 2017

Technical backlog usage instructions at Kyiv Project Management Day 2017

Nikita Galkin

October 28, 2017
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  1. Nikita Galkin Love and Know: ▰ how to make developers

    and business happy ▰ technical and process debt elimination Believe that: ▰ Any problem must be solved at the right level ▰ Software is easy. People are hard ▰ A problem should be highlighted, an idea should be "sold", a solution should be demonstrated Links: Site GitHub Twitter Facebook 2
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  4. Project is alive. Scrum is failed. Why? 8 ▰ Bad

    Product Owner and/or DoR? ▰ Bad Scrum Master and/or Ceremonies? ▰ Bad Team and/or DoD? ▰ Bad Backlog? ▰ All of that?
  5. Project is alive. Scrum is failed. Why? 9 ▰ Product

    Owner and DoR ▰ Scrum Master and Ceremonies ▰ Team and DoD ▰ Backlog ▰ So what’s the issue?
  6. What is Quality? 12 Attributes: ▰ Portability ▰ Reliability ▰

    Efficiency ▰ Usability ▰ Testability ▰ Understandability ▰ Modifiability
  7. Who takes care of which attribute? 13 ▰ Portability –

    DevOps Engineer ▰ Reliability – Product Owner ▰ Efficiency – System Architect ▰ Usability – UX/UI Designer ▰ Testability – QA Engineer ▰ Understandability – Developer ▰ Modifiability – Developer
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  9. How store Non-functional requirements? 16 ▰ In DoD – DoD

    will be too big. ▰ In their own specification – nobody will read. ▰ In Acceptance Criteria for specific story – regression testing will be very difficult. ▰ In special backlog AKA Technical backlog – this is our approach!
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  11. 23 Doing things the quick and dirty way sets us

    up with a technical debt which is similar to a financial
  12. Reason of technical debt 24 ▰ Prudent decision, because “Deadline

    is coming” ▰ Reckless decision ▰ Unaccounted non-functional requirements ▰ Technical Inflation
  13. Types of debt in software development 26 ▰ Tech debt

    ▰ Process debt ▰ Team (HR) debt ▰ Infrastructure debt ▰ Product debt ▰ <Your type> debt
  14. Product backlog 28 ▰ Consist of users stories: As a

    <persona> I want <goal> So that <reason> ▰ Functional requirements ▰ Demo for PO and stakeholders ▰ Delivery as working software
  15. Technical backlog 29 ▰ Consist of technical stories ▰ Non-functional

    requirements ▰ Demo for development team ▰ Delivery as artifact (package, document, etc)
  16. User story 30 ▰ Describes what the user does with

    the software and how the software responds. A User Story is a functional requirement that resembles a use case and test case. ▰ It contains the product owner expectations about customers needs.
  17. Tech story 31 ▰ A non-functional requirement that describes the

    functionality supporting the user-facing features in User Stories. ▰ It contains the team members expectations about project needs.
  18. Types of Technical Stories 33 ▰ Product Infrastructure. For example,

    new microservice or Database. ▰ Team Infrastructure. For example, new feature for CI ▰ Refactoring. Changes in codebase for improving maintainability. ▰ Bug fixing. ▰ Spike. When it’s time for R&D adventure
  19. Our approach 34 Our JIRA types: ▰ Technical story with

    estimates, demo and the template “As ... I want to ... So that ...” ▰ Bug, without estimates and demo, but with template ▰ Task with free structure
  20. Our approach 35 Tech stack: ▰ Saved in confluence ▰

    Declare approaches and philosophy ▰ Describes tools/libs with purpose and version ▰ Contains change log with date and issue
  21. Selling algorithm 43 1. Identify/highlight problem 2. Assessing the consequences

    of not solving the problem 3. Make sure that decision makers aware that this is a problem and know the assessment 4. Generate solution(-s) and estimate(-s) 5. Get a confirmation
  22. 44 THANKS! BE AWESOME! MANAGE EXPECTATION! You can find me

    on Twitter as @galk_in Slides are available at speakerdeck.com/galkin or at my site galk.in