how to adopt agile at your organization
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How to Adopt Agileat Your Organization
Challenges and Success Stories
Agile Riga Day 2011
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Raimonds Simanovskis
Agile
TechnologyRuby
github.com/rsim
JavaScript
Open-source
@rsim
Social
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I heard about Agile...
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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But what is Agile?
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Why to start Agile?
What are the problems we want to solve?
Do we acknowledge that we have problems?
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We want toDevelop software faster
Be responsive to changes
Get higher quality result
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Why to change?Everything is
already more or less OK
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
We are already Agile!
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Just another buzzword...
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Our managers don’t allow us to
be agile :(
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Our employees don’t take
responsibility :(
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Challenges before starting
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Our customers are demanding
waterfall :(
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OK, ready to start!
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Big bang approach!
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OK, some ramp up
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But in reality...
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There will be failures
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Adopt iteratively practice by practice
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Start with valuesand principles
Individuals and interactions
Working software
Customer collaboration
Responding to change
Processesand tools
Comprehensive documentation
Contract negotiation
Followinga plan
over
over
over
over
1
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Start with iterationsCreate
a backlog
Regularreview ofpriorities
Plan initerations
Self-organizedeveryday
work
1 - 4 weeks
Demonstrateiteration
result
Retrospectand
improve
2
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Challengesafter starting
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Just renaming things
Tasks in MS Project plan Backlog items
Requirements specification User stories
Project phases Iterations
Detailed design specification... we still need this ...
Project Manager Scrum Master
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Performing rituals without understanding the reason
What did you do?
Nothing special
The same as usualYou guysare cool!
Let’s go to lunch!
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Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration 3 Iteration 4
Overcustomizing practices
Requirements
Design& coding Testing
Requirements
Design& coding Testing
Requirements
Design& coding
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False sense of early finish
We’re doing Scrum!
Yeah!We’re so Agile!
And leanas well!
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Involve customerExplain values and
principles
Explain iterations and backlog
Explain product owner role and help with it
3
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Speak morewrite less
Lo-fi communications:user stories, index cards, whiteboard
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Lo-fi communications:user stories, index cards, whiteboard
Transparency and honesty
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Challenges
Agile just inside development team without
customer involvement
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Challenges
Customer does nothave time
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Challenges
Development team and customer each have own
backlogs and priorities
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Challenges
Customer collaboration and scope management in
fixed scope / fixed price contracts
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Implement Quality
Doneis
done
4
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Testing
Integrated into development
Automated
Not a role but function
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Continuous integration
Observe code repository
Build product
Execute tests
Publish results
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Zero bugs
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Challenges
Backlog Work in process Done
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Growing work in process
Backlog Work in process Done
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Growing work in process
Backlog Work in process Done
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Usability
Done means not just doable but also usable
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Technical Excellence5
Is itgood?
#@%$^&10 PRINT “Hello”20 GOTO 10
Pair Programming
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Test Driven Development
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Challenges
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Technical practices much harder than “soft” practices :(
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Challenges
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Twice as much work!
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Challenges
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
I’m not allowed to do refactoringNeed to work on
new features
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Challenges
• “Why to change?”
• “We are already agile”
• “Just another buzzword”
• “Our managers don’t allow to be agile”
• “Our employees don’t take responsibility”
• “Our customers want waterfall”
Legacy code...Bad technology...
Can’t do TDD
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Readiness for change6
Anything can be changed
Minimize cycle time to production
Source code always ready for deployment
Automated deployments
Agi
le o
pera
tions
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Challenges
Development Operations
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Staying agile7