Using Tools to Make CMMi More Agile

Eric Rongley Bleum

CEO

Bleum is the leading software outsourcer focused on customers and systems that need near zero defect delivery

Bleum

We build high performance teams for

systems that must always run

We help clients methodically improve

the run-time performance of their

mission critical applications

We help software publishers reduce cycle time while improving the quality of their releases

Zero Defect Track Record Making perfect the probable outcome

Our Secret Sauce:

1. Smart teams 2. Senior Management

Commitment 3. Automatic process

control and measurement

Keys to Achieving Zero Defects Routinely

1. Define a process and execute

2. Measure everything – in real time

3. Focus on exceptions – Good and Bad

4. Collect and Use Historical Data

5. Let the data lead you

6. Rinse and Repeat

Define a Process, Any Process and Keep It Simple

Don’t get hung up on “Perfect” Metrics, have multiple views Measure Gates Measure Work in Process

Mine That Data!

Measure Everything

EVERYTHING IS A

TASK

THAT TAKES

TIME

AND HAS SOME

OUTPUT

Use a Real Time Tool

Time tracking to plan better

Static code analysis Capture un-planned

tasks Reduce Escapes!

Focus on Exceptions Good and Bad Governance should make slips visible

Follow the data

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Fault Density vs Review Effort % Fault Density Reviewing Effort %

(Secondary Axis)

Rinse and Repeat

Across teams, focus on: Phase Containment

If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail.

- Bernard Baruch

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Agile Throws a Wrench in the Works

Good 1. Teams focus on delivering

valuable functionality 2. Digestible progress keeps

motivation up 3. Continuous integration

helps capture defects 4. Peer pressure to be

productive

Bad 1. Often leads to bad

architectures 2. Tempts bad human nature

not to document and plan 3. Hero dependent 4. Scope creep and schedule

slippages endemic 5. Too much shared

responsibility for Quality, etc

Synthesizing the Best of Agile, CMM & RUP

1. Use Case Survey as the glue that holds together Use Cases and User Stories. Combine the concept of User Stories and Scenarios of Use Cases.

2. Reduce process overhead – Guide to tailoring process to overcome the “Heavyweight” perception of CMM.

3. Prioritize what to elaborate as Use cases and what to keep as User Stories.

4. Automation of metrics collection will reduce the process overhead.

5. Use RUP approach to technical risk by frontloading its resolution.

Use Case ~ Epic Scenario ~ User Story

Using the Right Tool for the Right Job What we see over the course of hundreds of projects

SDLC When to use

Waterfall Smaller projects with non-volatile requirements

Iterative (RUP)

Large production systems with complex requirements

Agile/Scrum Minimum Viable Products Team of senior self directed individuals

Keep Overall Budget and Time Control

Roadmap (use case survey, what is going to be built). Estimate (Time, Salaries, IT Resources). Scope

– Captured and tracked – Keep all aware every time it changes.

Omnipresent will provide the Sprint and Whole project view

to guard against run on projects.

Bleum Releases OmniPresent

Commercial Version of Hydra Beta Version free for next one year http://omnipresent.bleum.com/ See your baseline performance and how your team

compares on other metrics, especially those that utilize code analytics

Agile Lifecycle in Beta

Daily SCRUM Meetings

Sprint Planning

Sprint Demo

Bleum’s Area of Interest

Measuring Productivity Tools for counting function points? Productivity of testing function? Methods of calculating complexity analysis of automated test

scripts?

Eric Rongley CEO eric.rongley@bleum.com USA Headquarters 901 Englewood Parkway, STE 106 Englewood, CO 80110 Worldwide Headquarters Cloud-9 Mansion 8F 1118 West Yan 'an Road Shanghai, 200052 PRC Tel: +86 (21) 6282 1122

Thank you

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