alternatives to go agile / transparency
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These presentation series are subjected to explore the alternative yields of Agile methods besides the well known ones; Managing Changing Priorities, better Time to Market, Higher Quality...TRANSCRIPT
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These presentation series are subjected
to explore the alternative yields of Agile processes besides the well known ones; Managing Changing Priorities,
better Time to Market, Higher Quality...
The Scrum framework mostly considered
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Transparency
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Alternatives to Go Agile
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Situations of transparency...
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Commonality #1
- PM(Project Manager): Hi Adam, How long will ___ take, what do you think?
Developer thinks: I’m very busy now and he’ll probably add more work. This one at least will take 2 days and I have a bunch of work to complete..
- Developer: About a week.
PM thinks: You think so, I’ll take it as 1,5 or 2 weeks to guarantee.
- PM: Thanks Adam. I’ll update the plan with this feedback.
Developer thinks: Now I can delay some of these, too.
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PY
BA
Dev
X 2
X 2
The costs get higher for each level as we go up in a vertically
organized hierarchy
Commonality #1
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Commonality #2
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- Customer: Hi Alex, how is the project getting on? We have 4 months and the market is very aggressive nowadays.
- PM: We’ve completed 50% as the architecture got clear! We just have coding and testing to be completed.
Customer thinks: They told us the same for the previous project but it stayed at 95% for 3 months. Hopefully they’ve learned from that...
- Customer: Excellent! We’ll break away if we can go live on time.
- PM: We’re sure that we’re on track, don’t worry...
Traceability
Commonality #3
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- Developer A: We just have few weeks to test ____ module.
- Developer B: And we haven’t done any refactoring, we’re too slow.
- Developer A: We have to speed up now, then we focus on quality.
- Developer B: Good idea, otherwise we’ll not be able hit it...
Commonality #4
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- Developer A: We just have few weeks to test ____ module.
- Developer B: And we haven’t done any refactoring, we’re behind the schedule.
- Developer A: We have to speed up now, then we focus on quality.
- Developer B: Good idea, otherwise we’ll not be able hit it...
Commonality #4
It’s very hard to focus on quality later as the new emergent work arrives all the time
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Commonality #4
Reduced quality results in increased TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
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Commonality #4
All of the stakeholders should be informed about quality
Reduced quality results in increased TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
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http://benscheirman.com/2007/10/dont-make-squirrel-burgers
Commonality #4
All of the stakeholders should be informed about quality
Reduced quality results with increased TCO(Total Cost of Ownership)
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The probability of risk of error increases as the true information delivery and
transparency decrease
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Ahmet Akdağ 2012
Pro
babi
lity
of R
isk
of E
rror
True information/Information Transparency
The probability of risk of error increases as the true information and
transparency decreases
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People can’t have enough time to do the job when they focus giving transparent information via expensive tools which also adds another level to complexity
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Agile Solution?
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Traceability
All of the stakeholders are at the same level of knowledge with continuous
delivery of working software
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Estimation and planning gets better as the planning is done by considering the
past performance, not by considering “the most likely scenario”
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All of the stakeholders committed to the project has common definitions which
creates a transparent ground to communicate
(Definition of Done)
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Progress information is shared with
stakeholders via frequent efficient meetings
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Everyone involved in the project can access easily to the project information
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Everyone involved in the project can access easily to the project information
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Stakeholders do not need to buy a tool
or derange people working on the project to get information about the
progress of the project
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Transparency is enhanced with
flat hierarchy and less of roles
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Agile processes enhance
transparency and traceability
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Standish Group
Agile processes that brings transparency in are the universal remedy to deliver
up-to-date, high quality software products
Over80.000
IT projects
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