Xanpan — a team centric agile method story

It is an agile method created by Allan Kelly.
Talk given an Agile Luxembourg meetup event.

1. Xanpan A team centric agile method story Pronounce it Zan pan
2. @yot88 Who am I yoan thirion software craftsman, agile & craft coach, team player https://yoan-thirion.com
3. @yot88 Allan kelly Agile coach Software engineer
4. What limitations have you already lived or observed with Kanban or Scrum ?
5. #nomagicmethod #nomagicframework
6. @yot88 What is xanpan? A process for agile teams Team at the heart Principles practices
7. @yot88 XP scrum lean kanban Product management xanpan pragmatism
8. @yot88 PRINCIPLES Work in iterations Team-centric Work to improve Flow Quality is free (invest in quality) Visualize
9. @yot88 Work in iterations 2 weeks iterations from mid-week to mid-week releasable product at the end of each iteration continuous integration -> continuous deployment Deadlines help to focus : limit wip
10. @yot88 Planning -3 players Product Owner played by a product manager, or a BA The creators Software engineers, Testers, UX, UI,… The facilitator Dedicated or not Product ownership is considered a practice rather than a role.
11. @yot88 Planning -artefacts vertical slices of business functionality from multiple projects or products Blue cards Tasks related to blue cards Bugs White cards Red cards Planning board Planning poker
12. @yot88 Planning Meeting
13. @yot88 Retrospective “Teams may also hold a retrospective as part of the iteration end routine, although not all teams hold retrospectives, and even those who do may not hold them at every iteration.” Formal or not (dialogue)
14. @yot88 Work in routine Event Frequency Iteration Every 2 weeks –10 working days Stand-up meeting Everyday -Maximum 15 Minutes Iteration review meeting End of every iteration 20 minutes at end of Iteration Retrospective event End of every iteration Formal retrospective End of every iteration (new teams) (60-90 minutes) every second (mature teams) Informal retrospective Every second iteration (30mins) for mature teams Demo At least every iteration which does not release Release Minimum quarterly high-performing teams will release many times during Iteration Sanitize the board & count the points
15. @yot88 Plan beyond the iteration The quarterly plan looks at most 12 weeks into the future Roadmap looks at the next quarter Iteration plan : output of the next two weeks More certainty Filled to approximately the capacity of each iteration : WIP limit for iterations
16. @yot88 Plan beyond the iteration Quarter & Roadmap are only horizons planning != scheduling Plan = looking into the future to learn about what might happen : perhaps preparefor it with Design thinking for example
17. @yot88 Goodhart ‘s law if a team tries to target a certain number of points, it will meet its goal, but may not do any more work. Such teams exhibit inflation in estimates : exactly as with financial inflation, the numbers are bigger but the value less.
18. @yot88 where is the Kanban part in it ?
19. @yot88 Kanban-style flow Xanpanallows both planned and unplanned work Work can flow from iteration to iteration Blue cards must bring value (Small stories regularly don’t)
20. Team-centric the team may be working on more than one product or project at a time.
21. @yot88 Commitment Kanban-style flow
22. @yot88 visualise Sprint backlog Stock of unplanned work Work For today
23. @yot88 visualise State of the team and their work See to learn
24. Quality is free All successful software needs rework how easy is the rework? Low quality makes rework harder, and therefore slower. High quality makes rework easier, and therefore faster.
25. Poor quality Rework destroys flow stories and tasks can’t truly be considered ‘done’ hidden work is flowing between iterations Metrics are destroyed Inordinate amounts of time prioritizing, reporting, doing rework instead of delivering value inordinate amounts of money on testing resources and cycles
26. How to define quality of a software product ? Defects Maintainability
27. @yot88 How to build quality in ?
28. @yot88 Technical practices some of Test-Driven Development (Unit, ATDD) Refactoring Frequent builds Continuous Integration Source code control Code reviews Pair programming Static analysis Coding Standards
29. @yot88 "create your own process, don’t follow someone else’s prescription.” – Allan Kelly
30. @yot88
31. @yot88 Just do it : action over words Keep or drop Identify a practice, tool, technique, whatever from somewhere else. Decide what it would mean to your team: what would you do differently? Set a time frame Make the change at the end of the period : check
32. @yot88 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maurostrione_scrum-agile-devops-activity-6650103984235298819-Zb5a
33. @yot88 “xanpan is the kind of stuff that should emerge from every agile teams when not constrained by some “agile” dogms.”
34. https://agnosticagile.org/
35. What could you try to implement in the near days to solve the limitations you observed ?
36. @yot88 ANY QUESTION ? REMARKS ? OPEN YOUR MIC
37. @yot88 PLEASE GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK #CONTINUOUSIMPROVEMENT
38. @yot88 thank you yoan thirion software craftsman, agile & craft coach, team player https://yoan-thirion.com