Lean Mean & Agile 2009
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This document provides a summary of the Agile 2009 conference through 3 sentences: The Agile 2009 conference in Chicago had over 1350 attendees and featured over 20 concurrent sessions on topics like user experience, test-driven development, behavior-driven development, software craftsmanship, mock objects, dynamic languages like Groovy. Speakers discussed principles from agile, lean, and XP and trends like deliberate practice, leadership, responsibility and dialog over discussion. A wide range of agile tools were also presented including Cucumber, RSpec, JBehave, EasyB for behavior-driven development and testing.
Lean Mean & Agile 2009
- 1. Lean, Mean, & Agile Agile 2009 Conference Report Harold Shinsato - October 8, 2009
- 2. Yes Power Integrity Challenge Strength Courage Winning No Violence Arrogance Etc.
- 4. Agile
- 5. Agile Scrum & XP
- 6. Lean 5 Steps
- 9. A little history • agilemanifesto.org - February 2001 • Programmers tired of bureaucracy • lean.org - Toyota Post WWII • Few customers • Had to remove waste • Scrum Conference + XP Conference
- 10. Agile 2009 Conference • Chicago - August 24-27 • 1350+ Attendees • Large Music Festival Model (21 “stages”) • 20+ sessions going on at any time • Any number of “Open Jam” sessions
- 11. User Experience (UX) • Jared Spool Keynote • Guerilla Usability Testing • Guerilla User Research • Lightweight Design • Integrated with Agile/Scrum/Iterative dev.
- 12. What’s the Story? As <role> I want <function> so that <business value> Rachel Davies Johanna Rothman
- 14. 10 Years to World Class • The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance - by Anders Ericsson • Sufficient time (hours a day) • Mentor/Coach/Teacher • Specific practice • Immediate Feedback
- 15. Uncle “Bob” Martin objectmentor.com
- 16. Software Craftsmanship • Software Craftsmanship North America • Know your craft • Study more than 1 language (Java, C#, Dynamic, Functional) • YOU are responsible for your training • No technical debt - only mess making
- 18. TDD Benefits • Clean code • Self documenting • Full unit test suite • Enables near 0 defect rate • Ensures flexible code
- 20. BDD Benefits • TDD is actually not about testing • TDD is a design methodology • “Test” Driven Development encourages “Test” mindset and delays mastery of TDD • BDD encourages starting from the behavior and the use of • Mock objects
- 21. BDD Sessions + Tools • Agile 2009 Sessions: • “Acceptance Testing Java Applications with Cucumber, RSpec, and JRuby” • “How to Make Your Testing More Groovy” • Tools • RSpec, Cucumber, JBehave, EasyB, .......
- 22. RSpec/Cucumber
- 23. JBehave
- 24. EasyB
- 25. Mock Objects • Mock Roles not Objects • System Under Test & Collaborators • “Mocks aren’t Stubs” (or dummies) • State vs. Behavior Verification • Java tools - jMock, EasyMock, Mockito
- 26. JMock Example SUT sut = new SUT(); // System Under Test Mock mock = new Mock(Collab.class); //setup expectations mock.expects(once()).method(“neededMethod”) .with(eq(1), eq(“String param”)); //exercise sut.testedMethod((Collab) mock.proxy()); //verify mock.verify(); assertEquals(EXPECTED_STATE, sut.state());
- 27. Bad Mocking (thanks Paolini Carolini & Sudhindra Rao) • Unreadable tests • Replacing Integration Testing • Unnecessary (e.g.Value Object) • Context Confusion • Mock returns Mock • Mock Abuse (better: FakeDB, Dummy, Stub, Fixture)
- 28. Dynamic Languages & Groovy
- 29. Groovy = less code
- 30. Other Groovy Features • Fully compatible with Java code • Can use Static Types • Easy to make Domain Specific Language • Dynamic typing, closures, metaprogramming, etc. • Easy XML processing, string & list handling
- 31. Groovy Adoption
- 33. Decision vs. Exploration • Discussion is “convergent”. It assumes a single viewpoint must be chosen. • Dialog or Conversation allows for exploration and does not require decision. • Dialog is critical for many Agile processes. • User Research, Retrospectives, Learning
- 34. Dialog Processes • World Café • Open Space Technology • Deep Democracy • Appreciative Inquiry
- 35. Leadership Stage • Coaching • Organizational Development • Change Management • Collaborative vs. “Command & Control” • Leadership & Self-Organizing • “Stepping Up & Stepping Back”
- 36. Post-Heroic Leadership Gilles Brouillet “Developing Agile Leaders and Team: A Developmental Path”
- 38. Responsibility Redefined • Dr. Christopher Avery • Leadership means 100% Responsibility • Responsibility != Accountability • Responsibility != Shame
- 40. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- 41. We Want Your Questions, Thoughts ...