Agile For Teams

Vision

What is this #agileforteams thing about?

Why should you care about Agile?

1. Because you care about delivery
2. Because you care about your team’s morale
3. You care about cost, optimisation and efficiency
4. You care about building the right thing more than the wrong thing really productively
5. You care because using the #agileforteams process, you stand to gain:
6. Questions and Actions

What is Agile?

1. Agile is open ended, so you need guidance
2. The answer is always: It depends.
3. How-To: To add or not to add
4. Process first, Tooling second
5. Questions and Actions

Part 1: The Retrospective

1. How-To: Simple Playbook for a pilot Retrospective
2. Questions and Actions

Part 2: The Agile “iterative” cycles

1. Loops, feedback and getting up to speed
2. So what are these “loops” then?

The Principle of #smallbatches

1. Because Small is Fast
2. Because Small is Easier
3. Because Smaller is Clearer
4. Because Small == Low Risk
5. Because Small gives you Fast Feedback
6. Small often removes dependencies
7. So how do you get to Small?
8. How-To: Cutting something up

Pivotal Tracker

1. Compared to other tools
2. You need to project dates, ok!
3. The Killer Feature
4. Questions and Actions

Part 3: The Story Lifecycle

1. Who is this “Product Owner”?
2. Who are the “Build Team”?
3. Writing a high-quality Story
4. Defining a high-quality Story
5. Estimating a Story
6. How-to: Simple Story Estimation using your hands
7. Starting
8. Building
9. Mainline Development
10. Automated Testing
11. Continuous Monitoring in Production
12. Fast Deployments
13. Simple Architecture
14. So what do you get in return?
15. Finishing
16. Delivering
17. Acceptance (sign off) and Rejections
18. Rinse and Repeat
19. Questions and Actions

Part 4: Points on the Scoreboard

1. When is it going to happen?
2. Why is Velocity so important?
3. An Agile process needs to be sustainable

Thoughts on Bugs and Chores

1. Bugs
2. Chores

Part 5: How can I get this happening in my team today?

1. Do your stakeholders need convincing?
2. What new part of your project is Low Risk?
3. Just bite the bullet and do a Hard Cutover.

Final thoughts, housekeeping and parting inspiration