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MY PERSONAL TECH-WRITING
AGILE MANIFESTO
Mikey Ariel
Senior Technical Writer, Red Hat
LinuxTag, May 2014
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Why Are We Here?
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How agile software development started
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What can the Agile Manifesto do for my docs
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Where did agile development get its bad reputation
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The Scrum, Kanban, and lean development power trio
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Who Am I?
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Technical writer
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Former Scrum master (SAFe / ScrumBan)
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Documentarian
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Opinionated and passionate
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Who am I Not?
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Engineer
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Expert on agile development
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Veteran of open source
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Big fan of slides
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History of the Agile World, Part 1
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Chasing waterfalls
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Hardware is dead, long live software
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Ain’t nobody got time for that!
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SaaS before it was cool
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Iterative AND incremental? Incredible!
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Ask What the Agile Manifesto Can Do for You
Individuals and interactions
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Processes and tools
read: Get to know your stakeholders
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Working software
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Comprehensive documentation
read: Document and learn by example
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Customer collaboration
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Contract negotiation
read: Find your customers
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Responding to change
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Following a plan
read: Keep up with the development cycle
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The Scrum Playbook
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Sprints: Time-boxing abstract timelines
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Backlog: How good is “good enough”
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Planning and retrospective: Staying accountable
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DoD: Crossing all the t's
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Scrum master: Herding all the cats
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Kanban Board Games
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Cards represent tasks
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Columns represent development stages
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Blockers sound the alarms early
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Board is accessible and transparent to all
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Analysis and integration with tracking tools
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Lean Mean Writing Machine
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Finger on the pulse: Decide late, deliver fast
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Keep the WIP down: Stop starting and start finishing
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Sharpen your axe: Refactoring and scaling
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Where is the Fail?
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Power to the people... who don't want it
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Method tailoring or fear of change?
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Scrum of scrums of scrums of scrums
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Yo dawg, we heard you like meetings...
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Same %&$#, different names
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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
COMPLIMENTS? TOMATOES?
You can also ask me later here, here, here, and there:
Email mariel@redhat.com
Google+ mikeymay972@gmail.com
Twitter @thatdocslady