Baking Boards: Tweak the Recipe for Agile Development

This is a story about how we at JetBrains "bake" agile boards for different teams: product development, marketing, design, and technical writing. I will show live examples and explain various options that support different preferences and processes for each team.
This presentation will be interesting for everyone who has the drive to develop. These recipes are especially useful to anyone who thinks they don't have or don't need a process, or for those who do follow a process but don't get results.
Surprisingly, this is a true sign that you understand the concept of agilezen. Any cook can follow a standard recipe. A real chef knows how to make small adjustments that make a big impact. To build an agile practice that works for you and your team, all you’re missing is the secret ingredient.

Transcript

1. Baking Boards: Tweak the Recipe for Agile Development 1 Valerie Andrianova Product Marketing Manager, JetBrains
2. Андрианова Валерия Продуктовый менеджер по маркетингу, JetBrains 2
3. Boris Gloger Several agile books author, borisgloger consulting GmbH Founder & Managing Director “JetBrains — is one of the most agile companies I’ve ever seen, which doesn’t have a clue about it.”
4. YouTrack Team
5. YouTrack Team Goals • Continuous delivery • Speed up development process • Improve code-quality • Involve all team members
12. YouTrack Team Results • 4 major releases during 2017 • 93% of user stories completed • 50% fewer bugs reported in 2017 compared to 2016 • Every member of the team is involved in planning, retrospective, stand-ups and discussions
13. YouTrack & Hub Documentation Team
14. Documentation Team Goals • Fit into product continuous delivery • Collaborate with the product team • Visualize the scope of the product release
15. Documentation Scrumban Board
20. Documentation Team Results • Documentation for new features is delivered on time • Major efforts and minor updates are managed simultaneously • Process is clear for the whole team • Backlog of unresolved issues is greatly reduced
21. IntelliJ IDEA Product Marketing Manager
22. PMM Goals • Collaborate with various teams • Track various marketing activities • Manage personal tasks • Knowledge and experience sharing
23. IntelliJ IDEA PMM Board
30. PMM Results • Easier to track high-priority tasks • Get a birds-eye view of work in progress • Conveniently manage tasks in multiple projects • Spend less time searching for important issues
31. Design Team
32. Design Team Goals • Collaborate with 20 product teams • Keep load-balance between designers • Keep track of the incoming tasks • Prioritise the tasks by due date
33. Design Board
39. Design Team Results • Managing load-balance between designers is greatly improved • Tracking incoming tasks became much easier • The process is clear for the customers (PMMs)
40. СLion & AppСode Team
41. CLion and AppCode Team Goals • Plan and track scope for the upcoming release • Involve all the team members • Manage work-load on every development stage • Visually prioritise tasks
42. CLion Kanban Board
48. CLion and AppCode Team Results • Every team member is involved in the process • Easier to manage the workload in each stage of development • Tracking work in progress is more convenient • Able to manage small tasks that might be overlooked otherwise
49. Secret Ingredient • You set the rules and agree to follow them • Responsibility of each team member • Self-management • Continuous process tuning • Tools should be customisable enough to fit your process, not the other way around
50. Thank YOU! valerie.andrianova@jetbrains.com https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack Tag: Baking Boards Twitter: #howwescrum