Agile is the new black by Fred George

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. ✦ Originally attributed to the fashion industry ✦ Designates a versatile staple... ✦ Generally unobjectionable ✦ So overused as to become trivial ✦ Now on Banned Words List X is the new Y 3 Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. “Agile is agile... or should be” 4 ✦ Changes over time (even within same project) ✦ Different project to project (at the same time) Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile is not Waterfall 7 Manufacturing Engineering Work In Progress Gantt Finishing Starting +5 Stories +10 Card Wall -10 Gantt -25 MS Project Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Iteration Length 8 +5 Iter 2 wks +10 Iter 1 wk +25 Day or less -10 Same for yr -10 Iter > 2 wks -25 Iter > 1 mon 1999 2005 2009 3 Weeks 2 Weeks 1 Week 1 Day * * *Original XP * Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. 9 Roles in Agile Teams Agile Roles development business management programmer customer BA QA DBA UI designer architect project manager iteration manager Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. 9 Roles in Agile Teams Agile Roles development business management customer BA QA project manager iteration manager developer + SCRUM master + Agile coach + dev/ops Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. ✦ What project starts with the right staffing? ✦ What project doesn’t change during its life? ✦ Example (2003-4 project of 8 months) ✦ 10 staff changes in first 6 weeks ✦ Dismissed a client programmer ✦ Eliminated BA Staff Changes in a Project 22 Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Requirements Hierarchy 23 Tasks Stories Features Projects Initiatives +25 at Features +5 at Stories -25 at Tasks Credit: Greg Reiser, ThoughtWorks, 2005 Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile circa 1999: XP ✦ Iteration-based ✦ 2-3 weeks ✦ Defined roles: ✦ Customer, developer, business analyst, tester, clerk ✦ Prescriptive process (and that was good!) ✦ Focus: Shippable at each iteration 25 Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile circa 2006: XP 26 ✦ Iterations disappeared (or daily via Standup) ✦ Defined roles: ✦ Customer, developer, business analyst, tester ✦ Project manager, iteration manager ✦ Acceptance testing nearly gone (smoke tests) ✦ Focus: Potentially shippable anytime Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile circa 2011: Anarchy 27 ✦ Stand ups ✦ Story narratives ✦ Retrospectives ✦ Estimates ✦ Iterations ✦ Mandatory pairing ✦ Unit tests ✦ Acceptance tests ✦ Refactoring ✦ Patterns ✦ Continuous integration Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile 2013: Implementing Anarchy 28 ✦ Online version of Daily Mail ✦ Company established in late 1800’s ✦ MailOnline largest online newspaper in world ✦ Challenge: Introduce Anarchy to an established IT Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Transformation Summary 29 Was 2013 ✦ Project focus ✦ 3-6 month ✦ BAU for smaller ✦ Specialists ✦ Front-end ✦ Back-end ✦ Design ✦ Test ✦ Deployment ✦ SCRUM ✦ Story & task focus ✦ Feature focus ✦ 1 month or less ✦ Longer for new platforms ✦ Poly-skilled ✦ Broadly-skilled developers == Experts ✦ Experts float amongst efforts ✦ Aggressive Agile ✦ Table-based teams of 5-8 ✦ Rotation to balance & broaden Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. People Focus 30 Master Journeyman Apprentice Key Business Tech Platform iOS Android Databases Big Data Languages HTML/CSS/JS Java Ruby Server-side JS Software Delivery Agile management OOD / Architecture Testing Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Matching HR Focus 31 Competent in at least 1 key technology Graduate Dev Developer Not yet competent in a key technology Senior Dev Master (expert) in at least 1 key technology Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Agile 2014 @ MailOnline 33 Was 2013 Next ✦ Project focus ✦ 3-6 month ✦ BAU for smaller ✦ Specialists ✦ Front-end ✦ Back-end ✦ Design ✦ Test ✦ Deployment ✦ SCRUM ✦ Story & task focus ✦ Feature focus ✦ 1 month or less ✦ Longer for new platforms ✦ Poly-skilled ✦ Broadly-skilled developers == Experts ✦ Experts float amongst efforts ✦ Aggressive Agile ✦ Table-based teams of 5-8 ✦ Rotation to balance & broaden ✦ Feature focus continues ✦ 1 week or less ✦ Team delivers on all platforms ✦ Poly-skilled ✦ More self- governance ✦ Communities of expertise ✦ Career guidance, not appraisals ✦ Anarchy + ✦ Hiring, training by developers ✦ Team size to 2 Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. Restarting Your Agile... 34 ✦ Start process experiments ✦ Discard those Agile Process Guides ✦ Drop bug tracking for immediate bug fixing ✦ Change metrics to focus only on finished efforts ✦ Fire any Agile Coaches ✦ Hire poly-skilled ✦ Talk to your HR department on changing roles Saturday, May 25, 13

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Copyright © 2013 by Fred George. All rights reserved. More? 35 ✦ It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, No It’s Superman ✦ 10:15 Thursday - People over Process or Tools ✦ Micro-Service Architecture ✦ 3:15 Friday - Architecture to enable Anarchy ✦ The Secret Assumption of Agile ✦ 4:30 Saturday - Training for Growth & Anarchy Saturday, May 25, 13

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