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Imperatives of Tools and Engineering Practices - while

scaling

Jeyaprakash Rajaram PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP

Co- organizer ISEC Chennai Chapter

14- March -2015 , Chennai

jeyaprakash.rajaram@gmail.com

in.linkedin.com/pub/jeyaprakash-rajaram-

jp/8/330266/en

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Agile Principles

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Agile Principles while Scaling

How the below facts are possbile while Scaling

Face to Face communication

Frequent Delivery

Sync-up between Business and Scrum team

Architecture and Technical excellance

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Minimum 10%-15% of Scrum team members and stakeholders are

not co-located.

Communication Gaps in Requirements Engineering

Gaps in Dependency management

Issues while Code Integration /Build/ Packaging & Deployment

Lack of Automations but more relying on manual testing

Lack of Release Co-ordination and Look-ahead Planning

Observations while scaling

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Two types of Tools - To resolve the previous

observations

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Collaboration Approach – While Scaling (1)

Mandate the use of video conferencing or webcam for agile ceremonies. Start

mimicing face to face like environment

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Collaboration Tools – While Scaling(2)

1. Application Life Cycle Management Tools - A Right balance between Concept and Scrum team (ALM – IBM

RRC, RTC, Rally, Version one, Jira)

2. Concept team: At Product Portfolio needs to be at least one release ahead of Scrum team by Logging the

artifacts in ALM Tools

3. Scrum Team: Set proper sprint level look ahead by Logging the artifacts in ALM Tools

Imbalance between Concept teams and Scrum team

1. Late Requirements intake by Product Portfolio

2. Lack of Look ahead Planning

3. Lack of Capacity based intake

4. Poor Dependency management

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Engineering Practices – While Scaling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints

Break the constraints i.e. developers are the major constraints - a water fall way of perception will

be diluted by right engineering practices, involvement of testing and concept team

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Development Accelerators – While Scaling

1. Break the day to to day problems and accelerate

your development by right tools in Code,

Build,Test, Deploy space

2. Practice single program level view for – build

Failures, Code Coverage, Code Quality Metrics

3. Be Pracmatic while implementing the Tools

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Directions towards betterment - while scaling

Constant Inspect

and Adapt based on

Tools Data in more

Pracmatic way(6)

ALM usage for right

balance between

product portfolio

and scrum teams

(2)

Use of Development

Accelarators(5)

Better Collaboration

by ground rules

during Agile

ceremonies (3)

Engineering

Practices (4)

Mimic Face to Face

Communication (1)

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Benefits of Right Tools Usage

Increased throughput

Increased % Test Coverage

Increased % Test automation

Increased Velocity

Increased Openness to Change

Increased Code Commits / day

Reduced Cycle time

Reduced Defect Density

Reduced Code complexity

Reduced Sprint Duration

Reduced % Build Failure

Reduced Debugging Time

Reduced Scope Creep

Thank you!