from amber to green in four weeks

Antonio Terreno

Pat Kua

Agileday

23 November 2007, Bologna

From Amber to Green in Four Weeks

Our Story…

http://flickr.com/photos/celesterc/403508547/

Resourcing constraints

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oki/164253922/

Delivery constraints

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnx62/474996485/

Practices

http://flickr.com/photos/15933373@N04/1735047949/in/set-72157602650886363/

Daily Stand-Ups

http://flickr.com/photos/re_verse/25262581/

User stories

http://flickr.com/photos/teamaskins/130003950/

Pair programming

http://flickr.com/photos/fortphoto/388825145/

Test Driven Development

http://flickr.com/photos/chuckbiscuito/161971512/

Continuous Integration

http://flickr.com/photos/bourget_82/291349047/

Spikes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogenfreund/469765151/

Heartbeat retrospectives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/905385437/

Customer availability

http://flickr.com/photos/ezu/19680175/

Tuned our methodology and practices

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stitch/10332715/

Set design (trying several solutions)

http://flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/

Removing technical and process waste

http://flickr.com/photos/ispt17/

So we learnt that…

http://flickr.com/photos/foundphotoslj/466713478/

Team cohesion when changing

http://flickr.com/photos/mphs/540299247/

Commitment to success is infectious

http://flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/591122375/

Tiny Tasks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandiyan/1339056452/

Velocity variation

http://flickr.com/photos/kappuru/14050369/

Advices…

http://flickr.com/photos/ekai/457004988/

Be pragmatic when applying practices

http://flickr.com/photos/nothingpersonal/252531721/

New ideas need to be given a fair go

http://flickr.com/photos/gbaron/117091384/

Keep the cost of playing with the process low

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scr47chy/71541366/

Focus on removing the problems, not fixing people

http://flickr.com/photos/ippei-janine/683805285/

Q&A?

http://flickr.com/photos/tantek/22778226/