Shortening the Feedback Loop

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1. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. eTools for Efficiency “Shortening the Feedback Loop” Our Sprint in a Nutshell December 9th, 2008
2. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Objectives 1. Share with CAMUG a high level overview of our weekly iteration/sprint and identify our goals of shortening the feedback loop. 2. Questions, comments, feedback and areas of improvement from CAMUG? 3. Other topics?
3. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. About Us ▶ Adam Alinauskas (http://streamlinelogic.ca) ▶ Joel Briggs (http://twitter.com/joel_briggs) ▶ Mo Khan (mokhan.ca) ▶ Luu Duong (luuduong.ca)
4. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Setting the Stage ▶ A typical sprint/iteration during the project ▶ What we’re not covering today… ▶ Project inception ▶ Initial project/product planning or brainstorming phase(s) ▶ End of a project/product, hand-off, etc.
5. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. What is Feedback? ▶ Feedback is a circular causal process whereby some proportion of a system's output is returned (or fed back) to the input. www.wikipedia.org
6. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Sprint Beginnings ▶ 1 week sprint/iterations (short but manageable) ▶ ½ day meeting with Product Owner to discuss stories in priority ▶ ½ day team discusses and creates task for the stories
7. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Planning Poker
8. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Estimating & Planning Result To Do In Progress Verify Done Story
9. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Daily Process ▶ Daily 7:30am standup
10. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Daily Process…
11. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Desk Check
12. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Development ▶ “Shortening the feedback loop” for developers ▶ TDD (red, green, refactor) VS unit testing ▶ Ubiquitous language ▶ Incremental design ▶ Shared code ownership - developers wear many hats
13. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Development - Pair programming
14. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Development - Continuous Integration
15. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Tools
16. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Environment ▶ Onsite Product Owner ▶ Product owner automated deployment (10am, 2pm, 6pm) ▶ Open workspace
17. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Mottos We Live By ▶ No broken windows ▶ Pain driven development (if it hurts, do it more often)
18. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Mottos We Live By… ▶ Run tests early, often, and automatically ▶ Continuously identify and remove waste ▶ Miniature efficiencies add up
19. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Mottos We Live By… ▶ Fail fast and quickly ▶ Zero defect policy
20. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Mottos We Live By… ▶ The last responsible moment ▶ People, process, technology ▶ The only constant is change
21. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. What about iteration unknowns?
22. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Sprint/Iteration End ▶ Deployable ▶ Demonstration to customer ▶ Retrospective ▶ Continuous improvement/learning ▶ Retrospective action plan ▶ Next sprint cycle repeats…again… and again…
23. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Celebration
24. © eCompliance Management Solutions Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. eTools for Efficiency Q&A Beer Time!!!