Download pptx - How to Keep Going Fast - Agile Velocity - Product Camp Austin

As you come in, find someone in the room and discuss what

you know about Technical Debt

HOW TO KEEP YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS GOING FAST

Product Camp Austin 11

We’d prefer a fast, steady stream of new features…

But sometimes it feels more like this

Long Delivery Times

Mounting Defects

Rising Development Costs

Poor Customer Responsiveness

Late Deliveries

Frustrated and Poor Performing Teams

Intentional Debt

Temporary

Code

Business Pressure

Delayed Testing

Other Conscio

us Tradeoff

s

Unintentional Debt

Poor Code or Design

Business PressurePoor Practices

Inflexible Software

Lack of understanding

Poor design/architectur

e

Unintended

Complexity

Poor design

A Vicious Cycle

Time Pressure

Poorly Implemen

ted Features

Late Delivery

Continuous Integration

Test (and other) Automation

Refactoring - would you trust delivery of your products over

this road?

Peer Review

http://jimhighsmith.com/the-financial-implications-of-technical-debt/

Jim Highsmith’s Technical Debt Graph

Rewrite!

Let’s do an exercise to understand the concept further.

Form into Teams of at least 4 people.

FeatureCost: 15

FeatureCost: 10

FeatureCost: 5

Technical DebtCost 15

Impact -10


Impact -10


Impact -5


Impact -5


Impact -5

Iteration Card

Setup your board as follows

FeatureCost: 15

FeatureCost: 10

FeatureCost: 5


Impact -10


Impact -10


Impact -5


Impact -5


Impact -5

Iteration Card

Add up the total impact of all technical debt items

-35

-35

25

X

FeatureCost: 10

FeatureCost: 15

FeatureCost: 10


Impact -10


Impact -10


Impact -5


Impact -5


Impact -5

Iteration Card

You have 25 Points to SpendSelect the cards you want to spend your points on.

No partially done work.

FeatureCost: 5

FeatureCost: 5

-35

25

10

15

15

X

The goal is to complete as many feature points at the end

of 5 iterations.

Go!

The goal is to complete as many feature points at the end

of 5 iterations.

Stop!

Theoretical Capacity

Technical Debt

Productivity

Time

In order to go fast we need a focus on Craftsmanship

Capture your debt

Visualize and estimate

Need to invest time, team needs slack

Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors,

developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace

indefinitely.

Discuss how you could apply theses concepts to help your

teams go fast.