improving the odds of your agile transformation
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Jeremy Jarrell@jeremyjarrell
Improving the Odds of Your Agile Transformation
No Perfect Recipe
33 Practices of Successful Teams
Ready to Cook
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No questions left
Clear end goal
Ready to Cook
Not ambiguous
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Negotiable
Valuable
Estimateable
Independent
INVEST
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Sized Appropriately
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TestableT
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INVEST
Negotiable
Valuable
Estimateable
IndependentI
7N
V
E
Sized Appropriately
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TestableT
Let salespeople access the product
Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product using a username and password encrypted with MD5
Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product using a username and password
Only apply INVEST to stories your team is almost
ready to work on
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Estimated
Emergent
Backlogs Should be DEEP
Detailed Appropriately
Prioritized
Done Means Done
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Are there corner cases?
What will we not do?
Done Means “Done”
What is the goal?
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Acceptance Criteria helps us know when a story is finished
13Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product
The user gets 3 tries to enter their password
Password reset is not part of this story
After login, the user is redirected to dashboard
This story is done…
but it still needs to be tested.
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Peer reviewed
Added to deploy script
Done Criteria
Unit tested
Keep It Together
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Forming
Storming Norming
Performing
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More than 9
Too small
What Is the Right Size
Less than 5
Too big7±2
Research at Harvard
University has shown that
the optimum size is five
people.
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Define Acceptance Criteria
Agree on Done Criteria
Where to Go from Here
Get to INVEST
Keep Your Teams Together
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