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From waterfalls to rapids
an experience report
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Calm Serene Symmetry Beautiful Peaceful Inside ?
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Prelude
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Introductions
Me You Raise your hand if…
– You have little idea about Agile or scrum– You are working in Agile environment– You are a non-tester
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Interruptions solicited
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Agenda
why how where
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Why ?
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Transparency
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Shorter release cycles
Reduce inventory Feedback Quality Reduce total time ?
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Inspect and Adapt
Retrospectives Customer feedback
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Dev-Test Silos
Who do you eat lunch with ? Two teams working as one team or one team ? Team interactions or individual interactions ?
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Dev-Test ratio
What is a healthy ratio ?
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Exclusive ownership
Who own the assets ? Do developers test ? Do Testers change code ?
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“Technical” test staff
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Long endgame QA phase
Lack of automation Lack of domain knowledge Cemented dev-qa silos QA documentation
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How ?
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Top to bottom
Management initiated Team initiated
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Time and energy
Expensive Commitment
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Learnings
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Experimental
Processes Product
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Tools
Basecamp SeeNowDo Pivol Tracker Rally White-board
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Extreme Programming
Unit Testing Pair programming TDD BDD Continuous Delivery Code reviews
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Culture
Process or culture ?
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Where ?
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Success !
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Dev-QA ratio
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Shorter QA phase
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Self reliant teams
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Automation
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Joint ownership
Quality is everyone’s responsibility Joint exploratory testing Pairing
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Better collaboration
Developers <- Domain knowledge Testers <- Technical help
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crossover
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Limited success !
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Transparency ? Not so much
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Gimmickry of scrum
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Documentation burden
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Challenge of changing culture
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Too many meetings ?
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Lessons learned
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Lessons learned
Don’t follow scrum by book Don’t over sell it Be wary of vendors - but do seek help
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Factors
The domain The customers Technology Nature of the application Your market Who initiated the transition Human factor
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Closing thoughts
Quite a ride Next job : Agile again Startup vs. Not-so-startup Developers ?
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Contact
www.rajivnarula.com
@rajivnarula
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