Continuous everything
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The document discusses how agile methodologies emphasize continuous processes in software development, including planning, coding, testing, and delivery, aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction and adaptation to change. Key concepts include rapid feedback, ongoing customer value, and the importance of automation and collaboration to sustain agile practices. It highlights the need for improvement in processes, environments, and team dynamics to effectively implement continuous agile principles.
Continuous everything
- 1. Continuous Everything How Agile is Changing the World Forever Jeffery Payne, Coveros @jefferyepayne Coveros improves the agility and security of software applications, teams, and enterprises
- 2. Everything In Agile Is Continuous Continuous Planning Design Coding Improvement Learning Testing Integration Delivery Security Deployment
- 3. Definition con·tin·u·ous /kənˈtinyo͞oəs/ adjective 1. Forming an unbroken whole; without interruption. 2. Another term for progress. Synonyms: unceasing, uninterrupted, unbroken, constant, ceaseless, incessant, steady, sustained, solid, continuing, ongoing, without a break, nonstop, around/round-the-clock, persistent, unremitting, relentless, unrelenting, unabating, unrelieved, without respite, endless, unending, never-ending, perpetual, everlasting, eternal, interminable;
- 4. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project Working software is the primary measure of progress Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
- 5. Perpetual motion is motion that continues indefinitely without any external source of energy
- 6. What Continuous EVERYTHING Gives Us • Rapid Feedback • Ability to Embrace Change • On-going Customer Value • Practice • Confidence for Delivery 1816 Water Screw
- 7. Rapid Feedback • The Agile Mantra is ‘Fail Fast’ • You learn more from failure than success … so rapid feedback means fast learning! • Push downstream activities as early in the process as is possible to reduce rework Capillary Bowl
- 8. Ability to Embrace Change The Agile Bet If the cost of change can be kept low over time, the cost savings that result from early feedback will far outweigh the added costs of early change.
- 9. On-going Customer Value • Customers don’t know what they want until they SEE it! • Releasing software becomes a business decision, not a technical one • Focus on Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to delivery value faster de Vinci Wheel
- 10. Practice “Practice Makes Perfect” -- Anonymous “Practice Does Not Make Perfect. Perfect Practice Makes Perfect” -- Vince Lombardi “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work” -- Thomas Edison Early, repeated activities greatly increase your confidence by release
- 11. Confidence for Delivery • Gain confidence that a release is a viable candidate for production • How confident are you when: • software is integrated at the end of lifecycle? • test execution starts after a code freeze? • software is built to requirements that were defined 9-12 months ago? • software is deployed and tested on a production-like environment for the first time right before product launch? Archimedes Screw
- 12. Enablers for Continuous EVERYTHING • Automation • Virtualization • Collaboration • Being Agile
- 13. Automation • Non-automated activities will only get you so far on your agile journey • Teams following agile often make good initial progress only to bog down • Agile is a Russian Doll • At some point you must automate not only to improve but even to stay afloat
- 14. Virtualization (and cloud) • Virtualization is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources. • The benefits for virtualization are compelling: • Significantly reduces setup/teardown times for envs and testing • Enables infrastructure as code • Reduces and eventually eliminates human error with environments • Every environment can look like production
- 15. Collaboration • Pairing • Co-location • Team-based activities • Customer and stakeholder reviews
- 16. Being Agile
- 17. Instead of ‘Why’, the new paradigm is ‘Why Not’ • Why not run all regression tests over night? • Why not push prod like environments to all devs? • Why not run things in parallel to speed up work? • Why not check in code regularly? • Why not push performance testing into Sprints? • Why not regression test every hour?
- 18. How to Get Started • Optimize your process • Improve automation • Improve environments • Improve your team • Find a champion
- 19. Optimize your process • Understand your delivery process even if it’s manual • Identify constraints that reduce throughput • Dealing with constraints • Reduce work in progress • Reduce wait times • Reorganization process
- 20. Improving Automation • Start by getting your continuous integration capabilities up and running • Build AND Test • Automate the setup of a test environment • Automate some testing below the UI • Cucumber and other BDD tools ease this process
- 21. Improving Environments • Make all environment as similar as possible (production-like) • Push environments to teams • Benefits • Ability to move assurance activities earlier in the process • Fewer variations / variable to test • Higher confidence in delivery
- 22. Improving Teams • Concentrate on the Principles of Agile instead of the process • Frequent retrospectives • Focus on controlling technical debt • Sustainable pace
- 23. Find a champion • Identify a senior executive who will evangelize Agile • Provide air cover for change • Remove impediments to your progress
- 24. Thank You!