Engineering Practices within Scrum

By Mike BeedleEnterprise Scrum Inc.

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

Agile Manifesto

Agile is outdated, and it is not what experts do today. Even as defined it is poorly implemented: ◦ Individuals and interactions over processes and tools◦ Working software over comprehensive documentation◦ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation◦ Responding to change over following a plan

Agile Manifesto+

I prefer to say the state of Agile is now (in the best scenario):

•Beyond Individuals and interactions to hyperproductive Swarming jelled teams and communities of practice•Beyond working software to well architected and well-tested user-centered software services•Beyond customer collaboration to user collaboration and user involvement•Beyond responding to change to prioritizing and optimizing for change

•Beyond single Agile teams to Agile Enterprises

10-year Agile Manifesto event: goal to improve current state of Agile … not to redefine it!

1) demand technical excellence (testing,

integration and design) 2) promote culture change (individual and

organization) 3) maximize business value (use business

priorities throughout the process)4) organize knowledge (improve teaching and

knowledge repositories)

10-year Agile Manifesto Workshop

1) Requirements elaboration management (User Stories evolution)

2) Configuration management 3) Integration (continuous or frequent), 4) Layered testing for D^4 (unit, regression,

system, acceptance) including daily testing reports

5) Agile Architecture and design, using architectural and design patterns,

6) Coding standards

Engineering Practices