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Building the A-Team (Agile Team). What is Agile, Understanding what it means to be Agile, Agile terms, tools and principles.
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Building the A - Team
- 1. The A - (Agile) Team By Bruce Lucas N. Organizer, forLoopPH
- 2. A typical developer • Creative mind • Problems solving skills on the hour • Doesn’t always fit in with corporate work • DIY fired • Likes team work but prefers to work alone. • Always chased by deadlines • Always loosing money • Build once, support for life • …..
- 3. The new paradigm… Teamwork Business minds Tech minds
- 4. What is Team? a group of players forming one side in a competitive game, to execute a task, etc
- 5. What is Agile? A set of Values and Principles
- 6. What Agile is NOT • Not a Framework • Not a process • Not a Software • Not a Design language • Not a specific way of Developing Software
- 7. Agile Agile Collection of Beliefs Used to make Decisions On how to Develop Software
- 8. Agile simply gives you a foundation for teams to make decisions And Agile practices keeps the team organized.
- 9. Agile Manifesto – 68 words over Develop Software better by valuing items on the left side of the list than those on the right side Individuals and interactions Processes and tools Working Software Comprehensive Documentation Customer collaboration Contract Negotiation Responding to change Following a plan Credit: Mark Shead
- 10. 12 Principles of Agile
- 11. 1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous deliver of valuable software.
- 12. 2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in the development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
- 13. 3. Deliver working software more frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to a shorter timescale.
- 14. 4. Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
- 15. 5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need and trust them to get the job done.
- 16. 6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
- 17. 7. Working software is the primary measure of progress
- 18. 8. Agile processes support sustainable development. The sponsors, developers and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely
- 19. 9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- 20. 10. Simplicity – the act of maximizing the amount of work not done is essential.
- 21. 11. The best architecture, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing team.
- 22. 12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
- 23. Agile Teams Agile teams make decisions every day and those decisions have to be in tune with the values and principles that works best for them.
- 24. Agile Practices Agile practices can be different for different teams but it is more centered on the WHY of those practices rather than the WHAT kind of practice?
- 25. SCRUM VS KANBAN Remember: Practices don’t make you agile. STAND-UP VS SEAT-DOWN MEETINGS Your PRINCIPLES and VALUES are what makes you agile.
- 26. Choosing practices that support your principles and values. That is how you build an Agile Team.
- 27. Agile terms? • User Stories • Epic • SCRUM • KANBAN • Board • List • Cards • Sprints • Retrospective • Continuous Integration More…
- 28. User Stories Following the Agile principle No 7. Working software is the primary measure of progress. A story template -------------------------------- WHO - As a : [Type of user] WHAT - I want to: [Type of action to perform] WHY - So I can: [achieve this result]
- 29. Example of a clear User Stories As a: Website Visitor I want to: Subscribe to a mailing list for a product. So I can: Receive email updates for the product. As a: Admin User I want to: Disable Users So I can: Prevent unauthorized access to the software at any time.
- 30. A good story… Reflect the understanding of the user’s needs and expectations. And supports our agile principles
- 31. Tools for Agile Teams • JIRA • Pivotal Tracker • Trello • Wrike • Agilean • Planbox • Assembla • Asana
- 32. The Emergency CEO Syndrome. KILL
- 33. The thin line… Freelancer Businessman Build a career and earn a living… Build a company and earn a living… More code… You do the work… less code… People work for you…
- 35. Thank you 08036602512 brucelucas@olotusquare.co www.olotusquare.co forloopph@gmail.com www.forloop.africa Bruce Lucas N. @brucealgorithm 08036602512