Agile is a way of doing project management.
Agile mindset
Continuous improvement
Focus on why
Sprints
Should be short, typically 2 weeks.
Agile What to do:
Find out where you are
Take a small step towards your goal
Adjust your understanding based on what you learned
Repeat
Agile - How to do it
When faces with 2 or more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take the path that makes future change easier.
Is it easier or hard to change in the future?
In robotics
Look at a robot which balances itself, it uses a PID controller. If it is falling forward, then the wheels have to speed up, if its going to fast, then the wheels slow down.
Determines correction to apply by looking at
The error
The history
The anticipated short term future
Dont let the turkeys get you down.
Turkey is people that think they are important.
No rules are universal
All rules need context
Cant listen to any experts
No book out there knows where you or your team are!
It comes down to courage and faith.
Standup to fear-mongers.
You already have the values
Use them to create practices
Get feedback, refine, repeat
Agile is not what you do, agility is how you DO it!
Agile Manifesto - 12 Principles
- Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
- Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
- Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
- Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
- Working software is the primary measure of progress.
- Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Is Agile still alive?
User Stories
As a type of user, I want some goal so that some reason.
https://toggl.com/developer-methods-infographic
Agile is dead
Agile is an Adjective, not a noun!
An agile programmer
Can’t sell or train on adjectives, can sell or train nouns:
Training
Consulting
Books
Conferences
Roles that use Agile
- Everyone
- Studio Head
- Producers
- Team Leads
Agile Paid Courses
Agile Foundations - LinkedIn Learning
Agile Free Resources
External References
- Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- User Stories
- Agile | Wiktionary
- GOTO 2012 • Frankenbuilds; if Agile is so good, why are our Products so bad? • Gabrielle Benefield
- Pragmatic Programming
User Stories
As a