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Phoenix Scrum User Group

Simplifying Scrum Online. Phoenix Scrum User Group. May 21 st 2009. Brightspark – who we are. Privately funded technology company Toronto based Founded in 1999 Founders are serial entrepreneurs

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Phoenix Scrum User Group

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  1. Simplifying Scrum Online Phoenix Scrum User Group May 21st 2009

  2. Brightspark – who we are • Privately funded technology company • Toronto based • Founded in 1999 • Founders are serial entrepreneurs • Rails shop focused on building internet businesses. We also do outsourced Rails development work • Our process is Scrum and XP

  3. Brightspark 3.0 – Our Mission • Build leading edge Internet businesses using core competencies in web application software development • Agilebuddy.com • Collectionbuddy.com • iStopOver.com

  4. Jack Milunsky – Little bit about myself • 20 year software veteran • Led Teams both large and small • Worked on many successful projects and some failed ones • Most of my career was based on Waterfall • Practicing Agile for almost 5 years • CSM certification

  5. What is Agile • Agile = Scrum + XP for most companies practicing agile • PLUS Lean is creeping into the picture more and more now • Agile means • Iterative incremental development • Engineering discipline (process and quality)

  6. Most Important Agile benefits • Two major Agile benefits: • Transparency • Means you get to see exactly where things are at all of the time • Rhythm (heartbeat) • Deliver soon and deliver often - this means you mitigate risk

  7. Additional benefits • Two major problems that kill productivity • Churn • Code quality/Technical debt • Scrum helps mitigate this through: • Uninterrupted time for developers to get their work done • Build quality in right from the start

  8. Lean thinking "Stop Starting, Start Finishing" “If you don’t know how to get the story out of the iteration – don’t let it in”

  9. Lean thinking • Lean thinking • Minimize Work In Progress • Work in progress = Liability • Focus on cycle time rather than productivity • We ship every 2 weeks – DEPLOYED TO PRODUCTION • This means you can’t have too much in the pipeline • Fix the bugs when you find them • “ Defect tracking systems are queues for partially done work” - Mary Popendiek

  10. The biggest risks of All • #1 There is no greater risk than delivering the wrong product • Mitigating business risk… • Deliver early and often • Iterate, Inspect and adapt • Involve the customer and stakeholders

  11. Technical debt • #2 Technical debt can kill companies by painting them in a corner. Tell tale signs: • Features take longer and longer to get implemented • Releases have longer cycles • Ever increasing QA cycles • Increase release bug counts • Increase in support calls/emails • Unsatisfied customers • Internal Morale problems • Fewer individuals on the team that know the entire codebase

  12. Technical debt • Mitigating risks in regards technical debt • What you want is an Agile Architecture and codebase • Strong engineering discipline – setting the dials to ten • Emergent Architecture – the antithesis of BDUF • Unit test coverage – strive for 100% we have 95% coverage • Pair programming • Definition of Done

  13. Emergent architecture • Make room on your backlog for refactoring • 20% of our time devoted to refactoring out codebase every sprint • This requires discipline – so tempting not to do this • Requires buy-in from stakeholders • Ruthless focus on highest priority items

  14. Results • First full release in 6 months • Started using Agilebuddy after 1st sprint • No staging environment for 1st version • New production builds deployed every 2 weeks • 95% unit test coverage – Rails makes it real easy • No defined QA closure phase • Very low bug count • Highly Agile architecture and codebase • Fully automated continuous integration • Fully instrumented code

  15. Our process – without fail • Cadence!!!! • 2 Week sprints • Mondays we plan • Fridays we deploy, demo’s an retrospectives • Requirements, requirements • We really try hard to minimize the number of stories we throw into a sprint

  16. Engineering discipline Our definition of “DONE” Coded to standards Documented Unit tested – Strive for 100% code coverage Functional tested Zero defect policy Deployed to production at the end of every sprint

  17. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT What is it? • Not just about writing tests first • Red-Green-Refactor Cycle

  18. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT RedGreenRefactor Write one test and make sure it fails Write just enough code to make it pass Refactor the code Repeat

  19. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TDD is hard! • Discipline • Robustness • Performance • Exploratory Programming

  20. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT TDD is hard! ... But it’s worth it! • Actually easier and faster than manual testing • Safety net

  21. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT Tools are important • Autotest • Mocking/Stubbing • Continuous Integration

  22. TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT Miscellaneous • What to test • How to get your feet wet • Don’t test what you didn’t write

  23. Acceptance Test Criteria Website: www.agilebuddy.com Blog at: blog.agilebuddy.com

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