agile mëtteg series session 9

Agile Mëtteg – November 11th, 2010Agile Tooling

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OBJECTIVES & AGENDA

ObjectivesGet a short introduction to agile tooling, and where it sits next to agile methods and practices

AgendaAgility and QualityTools contribution to Agile software developmentTools in the Agile IT(Examples)To conclude

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LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

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AGILE PARTNER SERVICES

Custom Software Development & Maintenance

Our core business to answer customer needs

IS servicesThanks to our expertise we can support IT team to reach their productivity & quality objectives (Assessment, Coaching, Support, Training, Resource delegation…)

IS SolutionsTake benefit from commercial or Open Source platform to answer as quick as possible to specific needs

IS users servicesWe can support Product & Services owners to work closely with the IT team (Assessment, Coaching, Support, Training, Resource delegation…)

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SPEAKER

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Pierre-Antoine Grégoire

I.T. Architect

CSM

Agile PractitionerLean/Kanban, Devops


PARTICIPANTS

Who are you?What is your role?What do you know about agility?What are your expectations?

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AGILITY AND QUALITY

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ADAPTATION vs. ANTICIPATION

Source: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum, Mike Cohn , Addison-Wesley, 2009

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MEET THE FUD

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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt


QUALITY STRIKES BACK!

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Quality is the best answer to FUDDeliver quality items faster than beforeWin trustEasier said than done?


OBJECTIVES

Build knowledge

Build a solution that fits the real

needs

Optimize delivered value

Build trust relationship

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WHICH QUALITY & HOW TO MEASURE IT?

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Agile is about adding ValueGiving value to a customer for a productContributing to a value stream

Focusing on valueEnforces removal of impedimentsMakes evaluation obvious from clients to I.T. teams to ManagementGives shared quality goals for everybody


IN THE MEANTIME…

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Many people won’t see things this wayNon Agile boundaries exist:

Audit constraintsInput from non-agile teamsOutput to non-agile teams

And moreover:Agile doesn’t mean messy nor improvised developmentAgile doesn’t mean costless developmentAgile means focus on value


SO WHERE DOES QUALITY SIT?

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Delivered features (value) must be target constant and (very) high quality


Trust is a key asset to Agility adoption

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If people trust Agile teams/initiative, adoption is (of course) easier


TOOLS CONTRIBUTION TO AGILE SDLC

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THE 4 VALUES

Extract from Manifesto for Agile Software Development:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

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Source: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

http://www.agilemanifesto.org/


EXTRACT FROM THE 12 PRINCIPLES

Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

Deliver working software frequently with a preference to the shorter timescale.

Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

Face-to-face conversation for conveying information to and within a development team.

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AGILE PROCESS

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Iterations System in progress

Iterative and incremental process Adaptive planningIterations time-boxed


TOOLS EVERYWHERE

A Whiteboard/Kanban AND a good ticketing system

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TOOLS EVERYWHERE

Frequent delivery AND Continuous Integration to enforce and ease this delivery

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TOOLS EVERYWHERE

TDD AND Testing frameworks,

Collaboration tools for User Acceptance Tests

Good IDEs/Editors for Efficient Refactoring

Good code analysis for fast error analysis

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TOOLS TO IMPROVE YOUR PROCESS

Tools in an Agile project/context are not focused on nor chosen for their compatibility with a predefined process

Tools should adapt to your needs and assist you in improvements of your process

Development process

Testing process

Validation process

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TOOLS TO AUGMENT YOUR FOCUS

Tools should help you improve quality, by removing boiler-plate and helping you focus on Value

Tools should evolve constantly with your process

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TOOLS IN THE AGILE I.T.

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MORE THAN JUST PROJECTS

SDLC (Software Development Life-Cycle) expands to more than a development teamHow do Agile tools help with customer interaction?How does Agility integrate with (for example) ITIL?How can Agility ease interaction with operations?

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CUSTOMER-FOCUSED AGILE TOOLS

Transparency and collaboration toolsWIKIDSLs (Ubiquitous language)Wallboards or Equivalent virtual Dashboards

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ITIL AND AGILITY

ITIL, as many frameworks and methods, comes with methods and tools (remember the manifesto?)ITIL should be considered a good grammar, though it doesn’t provide value by itselfValue should still be the main goal, and ITIL a shared vocabulary/tool to achieve itThis is true for any other (imposed) classic framework or method

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OPERATIONS AND AGILITY

A new trend: Dev/opsLimit between development and operations blurrier every day

Cloud and virtualization are helping thisfrequent releases have their impact

End-to-end Delivery quality attempted very early, and therefore achieved very early!Failure is allowed, though quality and tooling ensure easy fixes (reverting to former version in a click…)

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CONCLUSION

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TOOLS SHOULDN’T GET IN THE WAY

Everything that disallows providing more value with more quality faster should be considered an impedimentThis is also true for tools.

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Tools should help improve the process

Tools should be there to help and assist the processTools should adapt to process improvements or be abandonedTools should not drive the process, people and value (stream) should

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TIME-TO-MARKET

Sources: Mah 2008. Moutain Goat Software, LLC11 November 2010


SALESFORCE.COM

Source: Greene and Fry 2008. Moutain Goat Software, LLC

568% more value delivered in the first year of being agile.

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SATISFACTION

Improved

Significantly Improved

Enhanced ability to manage changing priorities

41% 51%

Improved project visibility 42% 41%

Improved alignment of IT and business goals 39% 27%

Reduced project risk 48% 17%Source: VersionOne, 2008 State of Agile Development Survey

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QUESTIONS

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READY to TRY


HOW WE CAN HELP

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New to Agile?

Want to get started?

Already in?

Awareness sessions

Trainings and Certifications

Assistance & Support Coaching

Diagnostic « Quick Scan »

Agile

Agile « Jump Start » & transition

Agile « Health Check »


Certifications Duration Date

Certified Scrum Master 2 days To plan in 2011

Certified Scrum Product Owner

2 days To plan in 2011

NEXT TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS

Courses Duration

Nov Dec Jan

iPhone development

5 days 22 - -

Software factory 3 days - 08 12

Agile methods 1 day 08 13 10

Scrum 2 days 09 14 11

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Complete calendar on: http://www.agilepartner.net/training/focus-on/

http://www.agilepartner.net/training/focus-on/


RESOURCES

Agile Partner: www.agilepartner.net NEW! blog.agilepartner.net

Agile Interest Group Luxembourg: www.aiglu.org

Agile Alliance: www.agilealliance.org Scrum alliance: www.scrumalliance.org Scrum.org

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http://www.agilepartner.net/

http://blog.agilepartner.net/

http://www.aiglu.org/

http://www.agilealliance.org/

http://www.scrumalliance.org/

http://www.scrum.org/


CONTACTS

Thank You

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Pierre-Antoine GREGOIRE

Sylvain CHERY

IT Architect [email protected]

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+352 691 555 482 +352 691 555 221

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