agile basics

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Agile BasicsAgile Basics

Alexey [email protected]


BioBio

• Ideas?• Architecture Director at GlobalLogic• Founder & CTO of BrightSide Software:

Nuospace (http://www.nuospace.com)Clienteq (http://www.clienteq.com)

• Founder of SofAge Agile Consultancy• JUG Ukraine coordinator• Speaker @ JUG Ukraine and AgileUkraine


AgendaAgenda

• Why Agile? (15 mins)

• Popular implementations (5 mins)

• The landscape (5 mins)

• Q&A (15 mins)


Why Agile?Why Agile?


Agile AdoptionAgile Adoption


How to get there?How to get there?

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PlannedPlannedBB

AgileAgile


Why do we miss?Why do we miss?

• Extremely hard to correctly identify all the needs up-front

• Communication is brittle

• Almost impossible to design everything in advance


The solutionThe solution

• Release high quality working software every several weeks

• Ask for feedback, change the software accordingly

• Collaborate all the time with the customer & inside the team

• Simplicity


How it worksHow it works

Small releases• Continuous integration• Automated testing• Short-term design (YAGNI)• Refactoring

Communication• Customer as part of the team• Planning meetings• Stand-up meetings


Popular implementationsPopular implementations


SCRUMSCRUM


Extreme ProgrammingExtreme Programming


The landscapeThe landscape


Agile UsageAgile Usage

Dr. Dobbs Journal & Scott Ambler Survey (March 2007)http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileMarch2007.html

• 69% are doing one or more agile projects• 24% not yet started believed to do so within the next

year • 44% indicated a 90%+ success rate at agile

projects, 33% indicated between 75 and 90%


Agile Usage (contAgile Usage (cont’’d)d)

Forrester Survey (September 2006)www.thoughtworks.com/pdfs/forrester_truth_about_agile.pdf

• 17% of North American and European Enterprises use Agile

• Another 29% of respondents are aware of Agile


Want some more info?Want some more info?

• On Agile• On SCRUM• On XP• Ukrainian Agile Developers Group


Thank you!Thank you!

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