agile lessons learned in the microsoft alm rangers

Agile lessons learned in the Microsoft ALM Rangers team

Hi, I’m Robert

Microsoft AppFactory Senior Developer

Microsoft ALM Ranger

@rmaclean ♥ www.sadev.co.za

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Constant improvement

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Scrum basics

Product owner owns product backlog

Team completes work in sprints

Daily meeting for 15min to assess progress

Scrum master keeps team focused & removes blockers

Each sprint delivers potentially shippable product

Each sprint ends with a review & retrospective

Ruck compare

Product owner owns product backlog

Team completes work in sprints

Weekly meeting for 15+15min to assess progress + video recorded

Ruck master keeps team focused & removes blockers

Each sprint delivers potentially shippable product

Each sprint ends with a review, retrospective & video

An Amazing Team

Key things we’ve learnt

Passion wins

Definition of Priority

Ceremony needs to be light

Time as an engineering constraint

Communication is more important than metrics

Video isn’t a nice to have

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