Steer at the Team Level with Rational Team Concert

© 2015 IBM Corporation

DevOpsSteer at the Team Level- Agile Planning and Tracking

Jean-Louis (JL) Marechaux

Worldwide Enablement & Performance

[email protected]

@JLmarechaux

Introduction

• Targeted Audience

• Scrum Masters , Agile Team Members

• Focus on Planning and Tracking

• Expected Background and Experience

• Agile methodologies and Scrum

• IBM® Rational® Team Concert

• Workshop Expectations

• What you want to learn today

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Intended Audience

This DevOps - Steer at the Team Level workshop is

for teams who use IBM® Rational Team Concert™ to

conduct planning and tracking activities throughout

agile projects.

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Prerequisites

• To get the most from this workshop, you must have basic knowledge of:

• The Scrum Framework

• Rational Team Concert

• For the labs (hands-on exercises), you need Rational Team Concert v5.0.1 or higher

• The provided virtual machine includes a Jazz Team Server preconfigured for the workshop

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Workshop Objectives

• After you complete this workshop, you will be able to complete these tasks:

• Conduct agile planning and tracking activities using Rational Team Concert:

– Create Product Backlogs

– Plan Releases

– Plan Sprints

– Hold Daily Scrums

– Monitor Sprint Progress (*)

– Conduct Sprint Reviews (*)

– Conduct Sprint Retrospectives (*)

(*) Material provided / Not covered during lab 2848 by lack of time

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Workshop Agenda

Module Description

Module 1: Overview of Agile Planning &

Tracking Capabilities

Review core Scrum principles. Review key

capabilities for planning and tracking with IBM®

Rational Team Concert (RTC).

Module 2: Create Product BacklogExplore activities related to a Product Backlog

management. Use Rational Team Concert to

create and populate a Product Backlog.

Module 3: Release PlanningExplore activities related to Release Planning.

Use Rational Team Concert to plan a release

Module 4: Sprint PlanningExplore activities related to Sprint Planning. Use

Rational Team Concert to plan a sprint.

Module 5: Sprint Execution

Examine Sprint activities in an Agile project. Use

Rational Team Concert to conduct collaborative

activities during a Sprint (Daily Scrum, Sprint

Progress).

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Overview of Agile Planning & Tracking Capabilities

Module 1

Objectives

• Review core Scrum principles

• Explore typical activities for DevOps –Collaborative Steering during an agile project.

• Agile planning and tracking at the team level

• Identify IBM® Rational Team Concert main capabilities to support agile planning and activity tracking.

Note that basic knowledge of the Scrum framework is important to understand this module.

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Brief Introduction to Scrum (<15 minutes)

• Scrum.org leads the evolution and maturity of Scrum

• Key aspects of the Scrum framework:

• Roles

• Events

• Artifacts

• Scrum is used for managing product development

(This section is optional if everyone is proficient with Scrum)

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The Scrum Framework In One Picture

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Accelerate

software delivery –

for faster time to value

Balance speed, cost,

quality and risk –

for increased capacity

to innovate

Reduce time to

customer feedback –

for improved customer

experience

Our DevOps POV is resonating with clients and they are delivering

measurable business outcomes with DevOps

Continuous

Customer Feedback

& Optimization

Collaborative

Development

Continuous Release

and Deployment

Continuous

Monitoring

Continuous

Business Planning

Continuous

Testing

Operate Develop/ Test

Deploy

Steer

DevOpsContinuous Feedback

IBM DevOps Point of View

Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables organizations to seize

market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback

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Incremental Software Development Approach for Agile Teams

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Plan SprintPlan Sprint

Monitor Sprint

Progress

Hold Daily Scrum

Code, Test, Deliver

Manage

Product Backlog

Plan Release

Conduct

Sprint Review

Conduct

Sprint Retrospective

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2

7

8

3

4

5

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DevOps Steer: Planning and Tracking Throughout an Agile Project

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Manage Product Backlog Over Time

• Rank high priority stories (ordered list of features)

• Refine backlog (new or refined work items over time)

Agile Quick Planner

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Plan the Release

• Identify release objectives and dates

• Select stories for the release

• Refine release backlog over time

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Agile Quick Planner

Plan the Sprint

• Select stories for the Sprint

• Agree on a Sprint goal

• Decompose stories into tasks

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Agile Quick Planner

Code, Test, Deliver

• Collaborative work to create a Product Increment.

Code, test, refactor

Build and deliver changes

Update tasks and stories

Project Dashboards

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Agile Quick Planner

Hold Daily Scrum

• Synchronization meeting

• Share progress with the team

• Capture impediments and risks

Kanban Board (or Taskboard)

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Monitor Sprint Progress

• Review overall progress against goals

• Review work items needing attention

• Review and update impediments and risks

Project Dashboards & Plans

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Conduct Sprint Review

Project Dashboards

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Kanban Board

(or Taskboard)

• Summarize work completed during the Sprint

• Demonstrate the completed work

• Discuss progress relative to plans

Conduct Sprint Retrospective

• Discuss what worked well

• Discuss what didn't work well, and how we can improve

• Create tasks for future improvements

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Agile Quick Planner

Rational Team Concert

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• Quick Planner

• Kanban Board & Taskboard

• Dashboards & Reports

Extensive support for Agile Planning & Tracking throughout a Project

Summary

Rational Team Concert facilitates the adoption of the IBM DevOps

approach:

– Steer: Continuous Planning

– Develop & Test: Collaborative development

Rational Team Concert supports Agile practitioners throughout projects

– Backlog Management, Release and Sprint Planning, Daily

Scrums, Reviews and Retrospectives.

Rational Team Concert provides tools for Agile practitioners:

– Quick Planner

– Kaban Board & Taskboard

– Project and team Dashboards

– Reports

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Create Product Backlog

Module 2

Objectives

1. Explore how IBM® Rational Team Concert supports the creation of a Product Backlog.

2. Acquire hands-on IBM® Rational Team Concertexperience to conduct Agile activities:

• Communicate Product Vision

• Populate Product Backlog (Quick Planner)

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We are here

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Product Backlog for Agile projects

• Share and explain Product Vision

• Make the Product Vision available to the team

• Create Product Backlog

• Single source of requirements for any changes to be

made to the product

• Living artifact (never complete)

• Add items to Product Backlog

• New epics / stories (features, technical debt,

enhancements…)

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Exercise: Create the Product Backlog

• Goals:

• Share initial Product Vision and

• Create the initial Product Backlog

Share Product Vision

Add Product Vision to the

Product Backlog plan

Import backlog items

Add new items to Product Backlog

Populate Product Backlog

(15 min.)

Done

Already done for you in the VM image to

shorten the workshop 27

Done

Done

Summary

• The Product Backlog :

–Contains items to describe changes needed to the product

– Is an ordered list

– Is the single source of requirements for the team

• Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative

environment to work with:

– Product Vision

– Product Backlog

– Epics and Stories

• The RTC Quick Planner facilitates backlog management

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Release Planning

Module 3

Objectives

1. Explore how IBM® Rational Team Concert supports Release Planning.

2. Acquire hands-on IBM® Rational Team Concertexperience to conduct Agile activities:

• Refine Product Backlog

• Plan the Release

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We are here

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Release Planning for Agile Projects

• Refine Product Backlog: Ongoing activity

• Refine epics / stories

• Reorder the Product Backlog (ranking)

The Product Backlog is ready for the upcoming

Release

• Document and share Release details

• Objectives for the Release

• Create Release Backlog

• Select items from the ordered Product Backlog

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Exercise: Release Planning

• Goal: Agree on the release content, resulting in the Release Backlog

Plan the Release

Share Release details

Select Stories

Review Product Vision

Perform coarse business prioritization

Refine Product Backlog(ongoing)

Provide details and estimates for stories

Reorder Product Backlog items

(30 min.)

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Summary

• At the end of the Release Planning:

• The team has a common understanding of the

release objectives

• Item for the upcoming release are identified

• The team is ready to start Sprint Planning

• Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative

environment to work on:

– Priorities or ranking in the Product Backlog

– Details and estimates for Stories

– Release Backlog / Release Plans

– Epics and Stories

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Sprint Planning

Module 4

Objectives

1. Explore how the IBM® Rational Team Concert supports:

• Release Backlog management

• Sprint planning

2. Acquire hands-on IBM® Rational Team Concert

experience to plan a Sprint using the Quick Planner.

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We are here

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Release Backlog and Agile Activities

Refine Release Backlog: Ongoing activity

– Refined epics / stories (features, enhancements…)

– Details for epics / stories (decomposition, details,

estimates)

– New order (ranking)

The Release Backlog is ready for the upcoming Sprint

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Sprint Planning: Define the Work for the Team

Sprint Planning

– Collaborative planning: Work needed to create the next

product increment

Topic 1: What will be delivered: Sprint Goal

Topic 2: How the work will be done to create the increment

Stories selected for the Sprint Backlog

Sprint stories decomposed into tasks

The Sprint Backlog is ready for the upcoming Sprint

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Exercise: Plan Sprint

Select stories and define Sprint goal

Decompose Stories into tasks

Plan the Sprint

Review team workload

Goals:

Ensure Release Backlog is ready for Sprint Planning

Select stories for the Sprint.

Review Release Backlog information

Refine Release Backlog(ongoing)

Update Release Backlog ordering

Refine Stories

Verify team velocity

(45 min.)

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Summary

•At the end of Sprint Planning:

–Sprint goal is defined

–Stories for the upcoming Sprint are selected

–Stories are decomposed into tasks to facilitate

collaborative work and estimation

Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative

environment to support:

• Backlog Refinement

• Sprint Planning

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Execute Sprint

Module 5

Objectives

1. Explore typical activities of an Agile team during a Sprint (after Sprint Planning):

– Stories Implementation, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint

Retrospective

2. Acquire hands-on IBM® Rational Team Concert experience to conduct Agile activities during a Sprint.

– ( Code, Test, Deliver - Not part of this workshop)

– Hold Daily Scrum

– Monitor Sprint Progress

– (Conduct Sprint Review – Not part of this workshop)

– (Conduct Sprint Retrospective – Not part of this workshop)

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We are here


Code, Test, Refactor

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Implementation of User Stories: Create the Product Increment

Code, Test, Deliver

–Keep a focus on the Sprint Goal

–Build a Product Increment

Update stories and tasks as work progresses

–Status, time remaining

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Discussion: Implement Stories using Rational Team Concert

Find and review assigned work

Code, Test, Refactor

Build and deliver changes

Complete tasks associated to User Stories

Update tasks and stories

Review “Definition of Done”

Goal: Complete development of Stories for the Sprint.

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Group Discussion


We are hereHold Daily Scrum

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Daily Scrum: Synchronize Team Activities

Inspect and adapt meeting for the Development Team

–Synchronize development team activities

Development Team members:

–What have you accomplished since the last Daily Scrum?

–What will I accomplish before the next Daily Scrum?

–What is impeding our work?

Inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal

Identify any impediments or risks

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Exercise: Hold Daily Scrum

Prepare for Daily Scrum

Update stories and tasks

Review progress on stories

Synchronize teamwork

Hold Daily Scrum

Identify risks and impediments

Goal: Ensure the team is making progress and that there are

no blockers.

Review Sprint plan

(30 min.)

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We are here


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Monitor Sprint Progress in Agile Projects

Ongoing activity during a Sprint

Inspect and Adapt

–Inspects progress toward Sprint goals

–Takes corrective action as appropriate

Project information

– Remaining work

– Builds health

– Work item status

– Risks and Impediments

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Exercise: Monitor Sprint Progress


Review overall progress

Review risks and impediments

Goal: Ensure that work is progressing as planned toward the

Sprint Goal, and if not, take corrective action.

Review remaining work

Review work items needing attention

Review stories in progress

(30 min.)

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We are here

Sprint Review

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Sprint Review: Inspect the Product Increment

Inspection and adaptation event

– Focus on the product

Explain progress toward the Sprint and Release

goals

– What has been done / What has been postponed

Demonstrate the product increment to get feedback

Capture new business needs

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Exercise: Conduct Sprint Review

Goal: Demonstrate stories implemented in the Sprint and

adapt the Release Backlog, as needed.

Demonstrate the new product increment

Get feedback from stakeholder

Conduct Sprint Review

Discuss progress

Summarize work completed

(30 min.)

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We are here

Sprint Retrospective

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Sprint Retrospective: Identify Potential Improvements

Inspection and adaptation event

– Focus on the team

Examine how the Scrum Team worked during

last Sprint

– People / Relationships / Process / Tools

Plan improvements

Revisit the “Definition of Done” to improve quality

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Exercise: Conduct Sprint Retrospective

Goal: Discuss what worked and did not work in the Sprint and

create a plan for improvement.

Discuss process improvements

Create tasks for future

improvements

Conduct Sprint Retrospective

Next Sprint Starts

Advance current Sprint

Follow-up (30 min.)

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Sprint Execution Summary

• At the end of the Sprint:

– Product increment is developed

– Review and retrospective are done

Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative

environment to support:

– Agile Development (Code, Test, Build, and Deliver)

– Daily Scrum & Progress Monitoring

– Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective

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Workshop Summary


Activities completed during the

workshop

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Workshop Summary

• Rational Team Concert supports the delivery of Agile projects:

• Create and configure an Agile project

• Manage Product Backlogs

• Plan Releases

• Plan Sprints

• Hold Daily Scrums

• Monitor Sprint Progress

• Conduct Sprint Reviews

• Conduct Sprint Retrospectives

• Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative environment for agile teams.

– Helps teams manage key Scrum artifacts throughout Agile project

– Fosters transparency, inspection, and adaptation

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Further Information

• Agile page on jazz.net: https://jazz.net/agile/

• Rational Team Concert: https://jazz.net/products/rational-team-concert/

• Rational Learning Circles: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/training/learning-circle/• RTC Learning Circle: http://bit.ly/RTCLearnO

• Agile Learning Circle: http://bit.ly/AgileLearnO

DevOps Community on developerWorks

– http://bit.ly/dwDevOps– A community and developer-supported website that includes webcasts, workshops, wikis, developer blogs,

discussion forums, product downloads, documentation, and more

IBM® developerWorks® Rational area– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational– for white papers, demos, documentation, technical articles, and more

Social Networking– http://www.facebook.com/jazzdotnet– http://www.facebook.com/IBMRational– http://twitter.com/jazzdotnet– http://twitter.com/ibmrational

Additional Training: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/services/training/

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https://jazz.net/agile/

https://jazz.net/products/rational-team-concert/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/training/learning-circle/

http://bit.ly/RTCLearnO

http://bit.ly/AgileLearnO

http://bit.ly/dwDevOps

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational

http://www.facebook.com/jazzdotnet

http://www.facebook.com/IBMRational

http://twitter.com/jazzdotnet

http://twitter.com/ibmrational

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/services/training/

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