Agile is not the easy way out
- 1. Agile Is Not the Easy Way Out (But It Does Work) Rebecca Parsons
- 2. Tale of Two Toy Castles from Rich Hickey and Neal Ford. Metaphor to keep in mind during the talk...
- 3. The Knitted and Lego Castles Yes, you can buy that on Amazon... Think about this in context of team, system, and business model...
- 4. Agile Principles like transparency, reflection, and feedback...
- 5. Inform the practices like pair programming, CI, standups, retrospectives, etc...
- 6. Resulting in an approach that is
- 7. Disciplined
- 8. Sustainable
- 9. Grounded in Reality
- 10. and Effective For each of these, I’ll describe principles and practices that relate... show how and why they’re not easy but why they contribute to success. Many items could appear in different headings and they inter- relate. That’s why principles matter....
- 11. Disciplined Pair programming, testing and continuous integration Unambiguous definition of done Continual refactoring Standups and retrospectives Cavalier attitudes can not survive (no place to hide) Ironic that some orgs feel agile only applies with talented developers but also accuse devs of wanting agile so they can be reckless
- 12. Processes together form a rigorous structure within which to work Broken builds, style monitors, continuous peer review, etc....
- 13. Sustainable Not just iterative (mini-waterfalls) Balance of short and long term Scope control limits waste The Agile Contract No need for heroes Scrum as mini-waterfalls
- 14. The team selects the processes, empowering them and making it sustainable Collective ownership of project and process allows team to buy in and look to make things work over the long run for all stakeholders. Broad team means broad ownership and shared success.
- 15. Grounded in Reality Yesterday’s weather Clarity of actual progress Adaptive planning, evolutionary architecture, emergent design... Actually adaptive/evolutionary everything We’re not just order takers Opportunities come from being responsive
- 16. Embracing and exploiting opportunities as they appear and dealing with issues as they arise How much more effective can you be?
- 17. Tale of Two Toy Castles Revisited
- 18. The Knitted and Lego Castles Elegant, unified whole, but unravels with change. Again, team, systems and business models. We live in a world that requires us to change.
- 19. Questions?