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Agile Whole Team Training Hands-on Agile Immersion

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Damon Poole

• Chief Agilist, Eliassen Group’s Agile Practice – Coaching: Transformation and Tune-ups – Training

• 22 years of process change: small co-located teams to multi-hundred team global enterprises

• Founder and past CTO and CEO of AccuRev • Creator of multiple Jolt-award winning products • Past President of Agile New England • Author of “DIY Agile Kickstart” • Consulted with Ford IT, Orbitz, Fidelity, Capital One,

ING Direct, and many others • Taught Agile techniques to thousands of people


Mixing it Up

• No more than 7 people per table

• Each team/table needs

–At Least 1 person with a business or marketing background

–At least one person with a project management background

– Everybody else

• 1 or more people with a development background (code, dba, etc)

• 1 or more people with a testing background


Materials

• Every table will need – 20-30 index cards – 1 set of poker cards for each team member

• Each pack contains 4 sets


Exercise: Choose a Product

• Something that involves software • Something the whole team finds interesting • Unrelated to your current project • Fun! • Examples:

– Mall map/information app – Kid tracker – Online recipe trading – App to find stuff on your grocery list while shopping

5 min


User Story

Traveller wants to book a trip so that they can go to their destination

3

Tom

What Estimate in story points

Who is working

on it Why

Who

Business value (customer/market) focused

Keeps Customer, Business, Agile team on same page

Separates the “what” (need) from the “how” (implementation)


Exercise: User Story Creation • Produce 4 user stories • Write each story on a single index card • No more than 15 words per story • No implementation oriented words • Leave room at upper right for a number • Brainstorm! You can create more than 5 and

then pick 5 • Format:

As a <user role> I want to <perform some action> so that <I achieve some goal>

5 min


Bill Wake’s “INVEST” Guidelines

• Independent – To the extent possible, doesn’t depend on other stories

• Negotiable. – A story is a conversation starter, not the end result

• Valuable to the user – Something the user can use, not a piece of something the user can use

• Estimable – No research required, well understood

• Small

• Testable


Exercise: User Story Creation • Write 4 more stories until you have 8 • Write each story on a single index card • No more than 15 words per story • No implementation oriented words • Leave room at upper right for a number • Brainstorm! You can create more than 5 and

then pick 5 • Format:

As a <user role> I want to <perform some action> so that <I achieve some goal>

5 min


Backlog

Traveller wants to see their upcoming trips

2

Tom

Admin wants a report of site-wide activity

5

Bob

Traveller wants to edit a booking

3

Tom

Traveller wants to delete a booking

1

Sue

Traveller wants to copy a booking

2

Bob

Traveller wants to enter a booking

5

Bob

Traveller wants to link to on-line check-in

2

Traveller wants to link to cancel a booking

2

Release

Traveller wants to move a booking

2

Bob

Traveller wants to e-mail an airline booking

2

Most Value

Least Value

Product


• Turn your stories into a backlog

• No “ties” or buckets

• Single file backlog only

Exercise: Backlog Creation

5 min

Most Value

Least Value

Traveller wants to see their upcoming trips

2

Tom

Admin wants a report of site-wide activity

5

Bob

Traveller wants to edit a booking

3

Tom

Traveller wants to delete a booking

1

Sue

Traveller wants to copy a booking

2

Bob

Traveller wants to enter a booking

5

Bob

Traveller wants to link to on-line check-in

2

Traveller wants to link to cancel a booking

2

Traveller wants to move a booking

2

Bob


Splitting out the Gold User needs… 8

8

“Yes! I need that and can use it.”


Splitting out the Gold User wants… 3 User wants… 5

5 3 “Yes! I need that and can use it.”

“Yes! I need that and can use it.”

?


Split: “and”, “using”, “,” , “with”, “or”

Person wants to send a happy birthday card, a valentine’s day card, or a Christmas card with a gift card

8

Person wants to send a happy birthday card

2 Person wants to send a valentine’s day card

2 Person wants to send a Christmas card

2 Person wants to send a gift card to go with greeting card

3


The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work Shopping Cart

Track items and purchase

Change quantity

Pictures with items

Take promo codes

Realtime calc of shipping/tax

The simplest thing

Additional value


The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

The simplest thing

Additional value

Airplane seat assignment

Show all seats with radio bttns

Show only available seats

Provide graphical chart

Allow group seating

Drag’n’drop


Splitting by User

Traveler wants to send a booking e-mail to the site.

8

Frequent traveler wants to send an e-mail to the site

5 Vacation traveller wants to send an e-mail to the site

5 Business traveller wants to send an e-mail to the site

5


Splitting by Segment

• Splitting by user is an example of splitting by segment

• Other examples of segmentation – Market – Holiday: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc. – Any kind of list

• Delivery method: ground, 2 day, overnight


• Look for splittable stories and split them

• Discard any stories that are split

Exercise: User Story Splitting

10 min


How long to dig a ditch with this?

1,000 ft = 1 day 5,000 ft, 5 times as much work, 5 days?


How about with this!?

1,000 ft = 1 hour 5,000 ft, 5 times as much work, 5 hours?


Story Points

• Replace time-based estimates • Focus on “what” rather than “who” • Simplify planning • Measure the relative level of effort • Includes the entire effort to complete the

story


Exercise: 1-Point Story

• Decide which story is the simplest to do • Make sure to consider all of the work required

– Implementation – Integration – Testing

• Don’t include dependencies • Mark that story as a 1 point story

3 min


• For today, just need cards: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13

• Estimate must contain all work: all implementation work, integration, all testing, etc.

• Only consider the incremental cost, not including dependencies

Exercise: Planning Poker


• From highest value to lowest value in the backlog:

–The product owner reads a story

–Each team member chooses an estimate

–When everybody is ready, product owner says “flip”

– If there is consensus, write the estimate on the story

–Revote if necessary (just once for today)

• Estimate as many stories as possible within the time allotted

Exercise: Planning Poker

15 min


Minimum Viable Product

Movie Going Planner



What theaters are near me?

Movies and show times at a theater

Movie details What’s playing near me: showtime + distance?

Navigation Purchasing tickets



Movie details

Navigation Purchasing tickets

What theaters are near me?

Movies and show times at a theater

What’s playing near me: showtime + distance?


Exercise: MVP Creation

• Decide on the MVP for your product • What’s the fewest # of story points

you can use to create a viable product?

• You can re-arrange the stories in your backlog if you need to

5 min


Q&A

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