Kicking Off Your First Agile Project @PMIWDC
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The document discusses kicking off an agile project. It covers identifying elements of agile chartering such as product vision, project mission, core team formation and working agreements. Essential agile practices like backlogs, user stories, sprints, daily stand-ups and retrospectives are introduced. Retrospectives are highlighted as a critical practice for teams to continuously inspect and adapt their processes to uncover better ways of working. The goal of retrospectives is to reflect on what can be improved to become a more effective team.
Kicking Off Your First Agile Project @PMIWDC
- 1. Kicking Off Your First Agile Project Salah Elleithy & Ken Horton @PMIWDC
- 2. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu @PMIWDC@selleithy
- 3. Topics we will uncover… 1. Identify the elements of Agile chartering 2. Apply essential Agile practices as a starting point 3. Learn one critical practice to help your team inspect and adapt @PMIWDC@selleithy
- 4. What does “Agile” mean to you? We are 4 Values 12 Principles agilemanifesto.org @PMIWDC@selleithy modernagile.org uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
- 5. What is Agile chartering? Agile chartering is a facilitated meeting, includes the various players who will direct, guide, support, implement, and evaluate the project. @PMIWDC@selleithy Source: Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Niess
- 6. - Product Vision - Project mission - Mission tests - Shared values and principles - Core team forming and cohesion - Working agreements Elements of Agile chartering Purpose Provides inspiration and conveys the meaning of the project Alignment Help the project team create an alliance to achieve the mission Context helps the core team and project community know how they fit into the larger organization - Boundaries - Project community interactions - Resources committed to the project - Checking assumptions Source: Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Niess @PMIWDC@selleithy Start with WHY! –Simon Sinek
- 7. Chartering Questions 1. What’s our product vision? 2. What are our success criteria? 3. How do we know when we are done? 4. Who is on the project? And how dedicated are they to the project? 5. What are the roles and responsibilities? 6. What do we value as a team? 7. What agreements do we want to have in place? (Team agreements) @PMIWDC@selleithy
- 8. Create your Agile soup!! Backlog User story Sprint Daily Standup Sprint Planning Retrospective Backlog refinement Sprint Review Story Mapping BDD TDD Definition of Done Definition of Ready Ready in 5 minutes @PMIWDC@selleithy Acceptance Criteria
- 9. More ingredients (or practices…) @PMIWDC@selleithy Source: Agile Alliance
- 10. Essential practices “ingredients” Backlog User story Sprint Daily Standup Sprint Planning Retrospective Backlog refinement Sprint Review Story Mapping BDD TDD Definition of Done Definition of Ready Acceptance Criteria
- 11. One critical practice… “We are uncovering better ways…” – Agile Manifesto So, what’s one critical practice that helps us find better ways? enACT STUDY REFLECT or CYCLE To keep uncovering better ways, we need to be constantly looking for better ways.
- 12. Retrospectives • “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” – Agile Principle #12 • Deming cycle “forgotten step” : Check or Study (or Reflect)
- 13. Retrospective Prime Directive “Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” -Norm Kerth, Project Retrospective: A Handbook for Team Review
- 14. Retrospective Goal: To uncover better ways of working together. • What are we seeing, noticing or observing? • What patterns/themes are emerging? • Where do we want to go from here? What do we want to try? • What are the next steps or take aways? And who wants to sign up?
- 15. 5 Retrospective Ideas 1. Worked well? Could be Better? 2. Appreciation game 3. Sailboat (Winds, Anchors) 4. Start, Stop, Continue 5. Wow, How about?
Editor's Notes
- #3: A project is a journey. Building a product is a journey. And this journey begins with a single step. How do we setup our teams for success?
- #9: Create your Agile Soup (What essential practices would you select? Print this slide and pass it out for them to circle the ones you want to start with…
- #11: Create your Agile Soup (What essential practices would you select? Print this slide and pass it out for them to circle the ones you want to start with…
- #15: https://blog.trello.com/the-5-steps-to-better-team-retrospectives