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Agile

  • Organization practicing agile

  • Software Development: 37%

  • IT: 26%
  • Operations: 12%
  • Marketing: 7%
  • HR: 6%

  • Sales: 5%

  • Benefits

  • Manage changing priorities
  • Project visibility
  • Business/IT Alignment
  • Delivery Speed & Time to market
  • Team morale
  • Increased team productivity
  • Project risk reduction
  • Project predictability
  • Software quality
  • Engineering discipline
  • Managing distributed teams
  • Software maintainability
  • Project cost reduction

Agile Manifesto Values

  • Agile is a mindset

Agile Mindset

  • There are 4 values for the agile mindset

  • Individuals and interaction over processes and tools

  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

  • Responding to change over following a plan

  • These values are further described into 12 principles

Agile Methodology

  • Iterative approach to software development
  • Small cycles referred as sprints or iterations
  • With every iteration new features are added to the product
  • Small, self-organizing teams of software developers and business representatives

Agile at Scale

  • Vertical Scaling: integrate the work of multiple teams into a single product

  • Horizontal Scaling: apply agile mindset at other departments (hr, sales, finance, etc)

  • SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is a popular scaling method

Agile Tools

KPI

  • Assessment

Scrum

  • Built on
  • Transparency
  • Inspect
  • Adaption
  • Short learning cycles
  • Flow
  • Iteration planning
  • DSU: daily stand up

Kanban

  • Board with todos
  • Classes of service (CoS): level of urgency of the items
  • Expedite: critical priority
  • Fixed Date: high cost of delay
  • Standard: moderate cost of delay
  • Intangible: no cost of delay

Extreme Programming

  • Test-driven Development
  • Collective Ownership
  • Coding standards
  • Automated testing
  • Pair work
  • Simple Design
  • Refactoring
  • Continuous Integration
  • User Stories

V-Model

  • Write feature
  • Write Story
  • Write Code
  • Test-Code

V-Model

Cumulative Flow Diagram

  • Example 1
  • Backlog
  • Ready to Dev
  • Developing
  • Testing
  • Accepted
  • Example 2
  • In development
  • In code review
  • Waiting for QA
  • In QA review
  • Waiting for review
  • Done

CFD

  • lead time breakdown: latency between start and end