How to Adopt Agile at Your Organization
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The document discusses an event called Agile Riga Day 2011 about adopting agile practices at organizations. It outlines some common challenges organizations face before and after starting their agile adoption, such as resistance to change, not fully understanding agile principles and rituals, lack of customer involvement, and difficulties implementing technical practices. The document provides recommendations for a successful agile adoption, such as starting iteratively, involving customers, implementing quality practices, and maintaining readiness for continuous change.
How to Adopt Agile at Your Organization
- 1. Agile Riga Day 2011 How to Adopt Agile at Your Organization Challenges and Success Stories
- 2. Agile Open- Technology source Ruby Raimonds Simanovskis JavaScript Social github.com/rsim @rsim
- 3. I heard about Agile...
- 4. But what is Agile?
- 5. But what is Agile?
- 6. But what is Agile?
- 7. But what is Agile?
- 8. But what is Agile?
- 9. But what is Agile?
- 10. But what is Agile?
- 11. But what is Agile?
- 12. But what is Agile?
- 13. But what is Agile?
- 14. 0 Why to start Agile? What are the problems we want to solve? Do we acknowledge that we have problems?
- 15. We want to Develop software faster Be responsive to changes Get higher quality result
- 16. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile”change? Why to • “Just another buzzword” is Everything • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” already more or • “Our employees don’t take less OK responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 17. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • “Just another buzzword” We are already • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” Agile! • “Our employees don’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 18. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • “Just another buzzword” Just another • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” buzzword... • “Our employees don’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 19. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • Our managers “Just another buzzword” • “Our managers don’t allow to beto don’t allow us agile” • “Our employees don’t take :( be agile responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 20. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • Our employees “Just another buzzword” don’t take • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” responsibility :( • “Our employees don’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 21. Challenges before starting • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • Our customers “Just another buzzword” are demanding • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” • “Our employees don’t take :( waterfall responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 22. OK, ready to start!
- 24. OK, some ramp up
- 26. There will be failures
- 27. Adopt iteratively practice by practice
- 28. 1 Start with values and principles Individuals and Processes over interactions and tools Working Comprehensive over software documentation Customer Contract over collaboration negotiation Responding to Following over change a plan
- 29. 2 Start with iterations Create Self-organized a backlog everyday Plan in work Demonstrate iterations iteration result Regular 1 - 4 weeks Retrospect review of and priorities improve
- 31. Just renaming things Project Manager Scrum Master Project phases Iterations Tasks in MS Project plan Backlog items Requirements specification User stories Detailed design specification ... we still need this ...
- 32. Performing rituals without understanding the reason What did you do? Let’s go to lunch! Nothing special You guys The same as usual are cool!
- 33. Overcustomizing practices Iteration 1 Iteration 2 Iteration 3 Iteration 4 Require Design Testing ments & coding Require Design Testing ments & coding Require Design ments & coding
- 34. False sense of early finish We’re doing Scrum! And lean as well! Yeah! We’re so Agile!
- 35. 3 Involve customer Explain values and principles Explain iterations and backlog Explain product owner role and help with it
- 36. Lo-fi communications: user stories, index cards, whiteboard Speak more write less
- 37. Lo-fi communications: user stories, index cards, whiteboard Transparency and honesty
- 38. Challenges Agile just inside development team without customer involvement
- 39. Challenges Customer does not have time
- 40. Challenges Development team and customer each have own backlogs and priorities
- 41. Challenges Customer collaboration and scope management in fixed scope / fixed price contracts
- 42. 4 Implement Quality Done is done
- 43. Testing Not a role but function Integrated into development Automated
- 44. Continuous integration Observe code repository Publish Build results product Execute tests
- 45. Zero bugs
- 46. Challenges Backlog Work in process Done
- 47. Growing work in process Backlog Work in process Done
- 48. Growing work in process Backlog Work in process Done
- 49. Usability Done means not just doable but also usable
- 50. 5 Technical Excellence Pair Programming Is it 10 PRINT “Hello” #@%$^& good? 20 GOTO 10
- 52. Challenges • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • Technical practices “Just another buzzword” • much harder than “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” • “soft” practices :( “Our employees don’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 53. Challenges • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • “Just another buzzword” much Twice as • “Our managers don’t allow to be agile” work! • “Our employees don’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 54. Challenges • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile”allowed I’m not • “Just another buzzword” to do refactoring • “Our managers don’t allow to beon Need don’t work to take agile” • “Our employees new features responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 55. Challenges • “Why to change?” • “We are already agile” • Legacy code... “Just another buzzword” • “Our managerstechnology... Bad don’t allow to be agile” • “Our employees don’tdo TDD Can’t take responsibility” • “Our customers want waterfall”
- 56. 6 Readiness for change Anything can be changed Agile operations Minimize cycle time to production Source code always ready for deployment Automated deployments
- 57. Challenges Development Operations
- 58. 7 Staying agile