agile starter kit

AGILE STARTER KITGIL

ZILBERFELD

Agile… is big

Different Methodologies

Scrum certification

Scrum master

Professional scrum developer

XP practices

Change is hard

The organization

Peers

Where to start?

You can start now

Small steps, small victories

Make your own way

Forget about “how agile you are”

Concentrate on actions

The challenge

You control only yourself

And that’s hard by itself

People don’t like change

And you may find some friends

What not to do!

Tell everyone you’re going agileIf you think nobody listened before

Proclaim you’re better than the other peonsOf course you are

Go whole hog

Before you start

Identify the coalition

If possible, find a running mate

Identify the oppositionNeed to handle them with care and affectionWhat matters to them? Help them achieve it

Being agile

Shortening the feedback loopCommunication

○ What’s happeningVisibility

○ How are we doing?Improvement

○ How can we do things better?

Be Nice!

Communication

Stand-ups 2nd best – talk with peers

And other managersAlso with marketing people

Visibility

Whiteboard of sticky notesPlanned, in progress, done

2nd best: publish successes Don’t: warn all the time

Visibility

Build server 2nd best: Integrate often

Visibility – Unit Tests

Check-in your test code Automated unit tests running 2nd best: Manually run your unit tests

Improvement

Code review Pair programming 2nd best: Work on bugs together

Summary

Do what works Get more people on board Be nice!

Questions?

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