Practices of an Agile Team

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Practices of an Agile Team Eiwa System Management, Inc. Fumihiko Kinoshita

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About Me ✓Name: Fumihiko Kinoshita ✓Mail: [email protected] ✓Blog: http://fkino.net ✓Technical Lead ✓Practitioner of Agile Development ✓XP Japan Users Group Staff ✓I translated “Practices of an Agile Developer” into Japanese. ✓I like XP.

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Practices of an Agile Developer

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Japanese Edition

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The Art of Agile Development

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My Team’s Practices

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Agenda ✓Agile Retrospectives ✓Agile Planning ✓Energized Work ✓Agile Team

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Weekly Time Box

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Iteration Planning Retrospective Development

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 Development Retro- spectives Deve lopm ent Off 2 Iteration Planning 3 Slack

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Agile Retrospectives

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 Development Retro- spectives Deve lopm ent Off 2 Iteration Planning 3 Slack

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Retrospectives ✓Once a week ✓KPT ✓Retrospective Driven ✓Learning team. ✓Continuous Kaizen.

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Retrospectives ✓KPT (Keep/Problem/Try) Keep Problem Try

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Retrospectives ✓First Retrospective in the project ✓“Try” area is large Keep Problem Try

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Retrospectives ✓Final Retrospective at the end of the project ✓Timeline Nov. Dec. Jan.

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Retrospectives ✓Graduation ceremony ✓Emotions Keep Problem Try Happy Sad

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Estimate Retrospectives ✓The data is gathered and analyzed

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Positive Strokes ✓Paying compliments to team member

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Feedback

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Iteration Planning Retrospective Development Feedback

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Lean Software Development

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Lean Principles ✓Eliminate waste ✓Amplify learning ✓Decide as late as possible ✓Deliver as fast as possible ✓Empower the team ✓Build integrity in ✓See the whole

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Lean Principles ✓Eliminate waste ✓Amplify learning ✓Decide as late as possible ✓Deliver as fast as possible ✓Empower the team ✓Build integrity in ✓See the whole

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Agile Retrospectives

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Post-Iteration Party ✓Drinking party ✓Every 2 weeks ✓You’ll need some cash!

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Sake ✓Kagetora

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Sake ✓Hangover ✓Serious reflection Drank too much

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Agile Planning

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 Development Retro- spectives Deve lopm ent Off 2 Iteration Planning 3 Slack

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Iteration Planning

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Iteration Planning ✓One week is 32 hours ✓The remaining 8 hours are “Retrospective”, “Iteration Planning” and “Slack”. ✓Various Kaizen is done in remaining time.

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Estimating

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Extreme Programming Installed

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Programmer Rights ✓The programmer has the right to estimate work and have those estimates respected by the rest of the team. ✓The programmer has the right to honestly report progress. ✓The programmer has the right to produce high- quality work at all times. ✓The programmer has the right to know what is most important to work on next. ✓The programmer has the right to ask business- oriented questions whenever they arise.

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Taboo Word

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“We’ll Try” The saddest two words a programmer can ever say.

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Lister’s Law People under time pressure don't think faster.

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Estimate and Promise We cannot promise the precise outcome.

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Estimate and Promise We can ✓estimate what we can do. ✓promise to do our best. ✓promise to tell the truth about what has happened.

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Iteration Planning Adjust ✓the assignment of team members. ✓the scope of the work. ✓the limits.

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This is my job as a leader.

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But if we don't finish the work we've committed to...

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Kaiouken

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Iteration Planning ✓Sign up for the tasks that you want to do.

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Iteration Planning If more than one person signs up for the same task ...

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Darts

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Task Kanban

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Task Kanban ✓Football Pitch

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Task Kanban ✓Time.now

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Task Kanban ✓School Timetable

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Toyota Kanban System ✓One-piece-At-a-Time Production ✓Waiting in one line ✓Standardization and multi-skill ✓Start as late as possible ✓Total amount management

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Toyota Kanban System ✓One-piece-At-a-Time Production ✓Waiting for in line ✓Standardization and multi-skill ✓Start as late as possible ✓Total amount management

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Energized Work

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Energized Work ✓40 hours a week ✓Though I do not work overtime, I want overtime pay!

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Overtime Tickets

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Overtime Tickets ✓Assume 30 hours of overtime deemed ✓1 ticket = 30 minutes ✓For every 30 minutes of overtime you work, you put a ticket into the box. ✓When working overtime is unavoidable, a leader can distribute additional tickets. ✓Remaining tickets = Overtime pay

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We changed office regulations without permission.

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Agile Team

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Frequent meeting with the customer ✓Every one or two weeks. ✓“Problem vs. us” ✓We tell the truth about what has happened.

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Honesty pays — BUSHIDO

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The most delightful words I have heard from a customer ”Because I trust you.”

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Trust

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Slack

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Parent’s Rule Always give trust slightly in advance of demonstrated trustworthiness.

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Trust Team Trust Trust Trust Trust Member Customer Leader

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What It Feels Like

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✓You seem to take pleasure in work. ✓Your team also includes the customer. ✓I want to do the work once again with this team.