Agile Doesn't Have to Stink

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1. Agile Doesn't
   Have to Stink
   Justin Carmony - OpenWest 2015
   @JustinCarmony
   

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2. • Director of Development

   @ Deseret Digital Media
   • Utah PHP Usergroup

   President
   • I Make (and Break)

   Web Stuff (~10 years)
   • @JustinCarmony

   justin@justincarmony.com
   Hi • Director of Development

   @ Deseret Digital Media
   • Utah PHP Usergroup

   President
   • I Make (and Break)

   Web Stuff (~10 years)
   • @JustinCarmony

   justin@justincarmony.com
   

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3. This

   Presentation
   • Slides Posted Online
   • Feel free to ask on-topic
   question during presentation
   • Q&A Session At the End
   • Feel free to ask me any
   questions afterwards
   

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4. • You’ve Heard of Agile
   • You Know the Basic Structure
   of Scrum
   • You’ve tried to do Agile in
   some fashion with some team.
   Assumptions for this Presentation
   Planning
   Estimation
   2 Week Sprint
   Daily Standups
   Review & Retrospectives
   

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5. Let’s Take a Poll
   Developers? Product Owners? Project Managers?
   Scrum Master? Management?
   

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6. I’m A Developer
   

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7. Lets Get This
   Out of The Way
   

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8. Agile Sucks!
   

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9. Yes
   

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10. Yes
    , It Can
    

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11. Yes, It Can
    But It Doesn’t Have To!
    

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12. Lets Talk About
    Why
    

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13. ag·ile [aj-uhl, -ahyl]
    quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe: an
    agile leap.
    active; lively: an agile person.
    marked by an ability to think quickly; mentally acute
    or aware: She's 95 and still very agile.
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    2.
    3.
    

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14. ag·ile [aj-uhl, -ahyl]
    quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe: an
    agile leap.
    active; lively: an agile person.
    marked by an ability to think quickly; mentally acute
    or aware: She's 95 and still very agile.
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    2.
    3.
    4. A marketing word for any Development Tool,
    Training, or Processes recently released.
    

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15. Terrible Word
    

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18. Who uses Agile Processes?
    

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19. We’re Agile!
    

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20. What does Agile Mean?
    

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22. Actually…
    Welll…
    Uhhh….
    I guess…
    Hmm…
    Derp…
    

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26. Story Time
    

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28. Project Manager
    Work List
    Developers
    Tickets
    Guessing
    Hours
    Team Meeting
    

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29. Project Manager
    Work List
    Developers
    Tickets
    Guessing
    Hours
    Team Meeting
    Product Owner + Scrum Master
    Backlog
    Scrum Team
    Stories
    Estimating
    Story Points
    Sprint Planning
    

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33. It Was Frustrating
    

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34. Why Agile?
    

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35. Our Team is More Efficient!
    We Do Agile Because…
    We Make a Better Product!
    We Release On Schedule!
    

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36. Our Team is More Efficient!
    We Do Agile Because…
    We Make a Better Product!
    We Release On Schedule!
    

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37. Fundamentally
    Agile is About…
    

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38. Better Decisions
    

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39. Agile Is Not
    Just a Process
    

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40. Agile is a Decision
    Making Framework
    

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41. Quick Agile Test
    

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42. Have You Changed How You Make
    Decisions?
    

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43. • Have you changed how make decisions about:
    • What you work on “Today”
    • Features, Bugs, & Priorities
    • Releases & Deadlines
    • Planning for the Future
    Decision Making
    

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44. Re-learning Agile
    

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45. Reality In; Decisions Out
    R.I.D.O
    

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46. Reality
    

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47. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
    Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
    Time
    Progress
    

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48. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
    Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
    Time
    Work Finished
    

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49. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
    Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
    Time
    Work Finished
    

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50. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
    Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
    Time
    Work Finished
    

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52. Insanity!
    

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53. Goal:
    Honest Assessment
    of Reality
    

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54. What is Reality?
    Things we can Control Things we cannot Control
    The Past
    Deadlines
    Features
    Bugs
    Feature Scope
    Sick & Personal Leave
    Work Emergencies
    How Long Things Take
    ???
    What To Code
    Etc, etc, etc
    What to Fix
    Actions for Right Now
    Re-evaluate Scope
    Etc, etc, etc
    Etc, etc, etc
    

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55. Decisions
    

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56. Make Decisions that
    Manage Risk
    

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57. Complexity
    Critical
    

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58. Complexity
    Critical
    

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59. Complexity
    Critical
    

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60. Complexity
    Critical
    

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61. Complexity
    Critical
    

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62. Improving Parts
    of your Process
    

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63. Team Roles
    

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64. Project
    Manager
    Owns the Process
    Owns the Product
    Owns Development
    

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65. Project
    Manager
    Owns the Process
    Owns the Product
    Owns Development
    Hard to assess reality for all 3 things
    

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66. Scrum
    Master
    Owns the Process
    Owns the Product
    Owns Development
    Product
    Owner
    Dev
    Lead
    

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67. Scrum
    Master
    Product
    Owner
    Dev
    Lead
    Reality Decisions
    

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68. Share Common Goal
    Individual Responsibilities
    

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69. Meetings
    

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70. Meetings Suck!
    

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71. Keep Them Simple!
    Keep Them Short!
    

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72. Review
    Retro
    Estimation
    Planning
    2.5 Hours
    

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73. Retrospectives
    

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74. MOST IMPORTANT
    PART OF OUR PROCESS!
    

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75. 1.What went well?
    2.What do we want to Change?
    3.How are we going to Change It?
    Retrospectives
    Reality In
    Decisions Out
    

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76. Document It!
    

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77. • Added 0 point option to Pivotal for for simple tasks that were falling
    in the cracks before.
    • More consistent with standups. Starting & ending on time.
    • Gathered good feedback from stakeholders
    • Having a UI that we can demonstrate with helps communicate to
    stakeholders
    What Went Well
    

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78. Disrupted several times by AdOps “Emergencies” that could have been
    avoided with early communication.
    What To Change & How
    Problem
    Solution
    Designate point person (product manager) for all requests to come
    through. Proactively coordinate with AdOps before Sprints start.
    

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79. Pivotal & GitHub Notifications are being too noisy in the HipChat Room.
    What To Change & How
    Problem
    Solution
    Create new HipChat room for All Notifications and only post critical
    notifications in the main room.
    

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80. With Remote Developers visit, we didn’t have enough on boarding work
    for new Junior Dev.
    What To Change & How
    Problem
    Solution
    Tag “easy” items regularly to have a clean backlog of on boarding tasks.
    

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81. Several DN stories planned had CMS dependencies that weren’t
    finished
    What To Change & How
    Problem
    Solution
    Use “dependency” label in both DN & CMS backlogs
    Review CMS backlog before finalizing each sprint plan
    

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82. Review Your
    Retrospective Items!
    

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83. • Safe Communication Environment
    • Focus on the Future
    • Look for Small, Manageable Changes
    • Focus on You before Others - “What can I improve”
    Making Retrospectives Effective
    

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84. Estimation
    

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85. It’s Not Precise!
    It’s Not Accurate!
    

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91. Releasing
    

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92. Complexity
    Critical
    

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93. Complexity
    Critical
    

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95. • Don’t Over Analyze for perfect Precision!
    • Focus on Identifying Complexities.
    • Opportunity for Product Owners & Devs to clear up Ambiguity and
    define a more clear scope.
    • You will get better over time. There will always be stories that will be
    greatly over or under estimated.
    Estimation
    Reality In Decisions Out
    

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97. Planning
    

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98. • Planning goes smoothly when:
    • You Product Backlog / Icebox is Well Defined
    • Broken into manageable stories & estimated
    • End of planning ensure:
    • Goals are set and stories are prioritized
    • Everyone knows what they will be doing next
    Planning
    

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99. Stand Ups
    

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100. • Focus on the spirit of the meeting, not the rules.
     • Make sure to identify three areas:
     • What happened Previous Day
     • What they will work on Today
     • Anything Blocking.
     • Opportunity for Decisions! Keep an eye on Goals!
     Making Stand Ups Effective
     Reality In
     Decisions Out
     Reality In
     

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101. Final Thoughts
     

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102. Everyone Has a Process
     

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103. Be Strategic About It
     

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104. Spirit Over the Rule
     

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105. Always Look for
     Ways to Improve
     

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106. Questions?
     

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107. Thank You
     Twitter: @JustinCarmony
     Email: justin@justincarmony.com
     Web: justincarmony.com
     Please Leave Feedback: https://joind.in/10884
     

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