AGILE - ASPE – SDLC

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AGILEGetting Started on Your Team


INTRO AND AGENDA

Your Instructor:• Christy Clement • Agile Trainer and Coach

Agenda:• Picking your team• Picking your project• Different approaches• Q&A


THE AGILE TEAMSkill Sets (5-9 people)• Business• ScrumMaster• Development• QATraits• Willing to try Agile• Dedicated to the team• Have knowledge of Agile• Co-located if possible

Business Technology

AgileTeam

“Agile is more about attitude than process,more environment than methodology” - Jim Highsmith


THE AGILE PROJECT

Small Huge

Hardware

heavySoftw

are

heavy

Many

dependencies

Independent


OPTIONS, OPTIONS...

Pilot Big Bang

All outIncremental

A. Start with 1 pilot team and fully convert to Agile


OPTIONS, OPTIONS...

Pilot Big Bang

All outIncremental

B. Start with 1 pilot team with an incremental approachA. Start with 1 pilot team and fully convert to Agile


OPTIONS, OPTIONS...

Pilot Big Bang

All outIncremental

B. Start with 1 pilot team with an incremental approachA. Start with 1 pilot team and fully convert to Agile

C. Transition all teams to Agile at the same time


OPTION A: ALL OUT PILOTWed Thurs Fri Mon Tues

Sprint 0

StartSprint 1!


OPTION A: SPRINT 0Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues

Vision

Roadmap

Build backlog of user stories

Prioritize

Estimation

Detailed Requirements for Iteration 1 Stories

Release Planning

Prioritize

Estimation


OPTION A: CALENDAR• Sprint length: 2-4 wks• Back to back sprints• Start day

Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues

Iteration Planning

Scrum Scrum Scrum Scrum

Scrum Scrum Scrum Scrum Review

Demo

RetroStory

Review


OPTIONS, OPTIONS...

Pilot Big Bang

All outIncremental

B. Start with 1 pilot team with an incremental approach


OPTION B: INCREMENTALStart with a Retrospective

Went Well Pain Points To Improve

Release

Interaction

with

customer

Detailed

req’ts

Estimation

Changing

Req’ts

Too many

#1

priorities

Better

priorities

Stable req’ts


OPTION B: INCREMENTALMap Pain Points to Agile Tools

Too many #1

priorities

Short

iterations

with focus on

the next

priority

Pain Points Agile Tools

Common

backlog with

PO’s

prioritizing

together

Requirements

are unstable

Team thinks

we’re done,

customer

doesn’t agreeDefinition of

done

Team

commits to

too much

work

Time to

market is too

long - too

many depts to

involve

Task out

requirements

as a team,

assign hours

Small, cross

functional

team with a

common goal


OPTIONS, OPTIONS...

Pilot Big Bang

All outIncremental

C. Transition all teams to Agile at the same time


OPTION C: BIG BANGConsiderations:• Training

• Teams• Management

• Release coordination• Environment coordination• Automated testing strategy• Dependencies between teams• Electronic tool selection


NEXT STEPS

• Find a mentor

• Get training

• Figure out your approach

• Get started!


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