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GROWS for Executives
Jared Richardson@JaredRichardson
Principal ConsultantAgile Artisans
Who Am I?
Cofounder of GROWS Methodology
Author Ship It! and Career 2.0
Screencast editor PragProg.com
2nd public signatory of the Agile Manifesto
Started AgileRTP in 2007!
Coach
AgileArtisans.com
Jared Richardson
Outline
What is Agile?
What is GROWS?
What should I be doing?
Outline
What is Agile?
What is GROWS?
What should I be doing?
AgileManifesto.org
AgileManifesto.org
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
Which way?
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Outline
What is Agile?
What is GROWS?
What should I be doing?
Learning modelWorking model
Learning model: DreyfusWorking model: Intentional Experimentation
Learning Model
Dreyfus
Start
Familiar
Working
Smooth
Teaching
Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition
Start
Familiar
Working
Smooth
Teaching
Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition
Steps
Recipes
Intuition
Stuck
Principles
Key Points
Skills don’t map
dilbert.com/strip/1990-09-13
Key Points
Beginners need steps
Working Model
Agile practices
Intentional Experimentation
Quick Overview
What does GROWS look like?
3 Rs
Rhythm
Right Thing (vision)
Right Way (craftsmanship)
RhythmScrum practices
Daily meetings
Iterations
Demos
Retrospectives
Teams find their own cadence
Right Thing
Vision
The Right Way
Technical Practices
Technical Practices
Version Control
Test First
Continuous Integration
Continuous Testing
Iteration (ship event or usable product)
Vision/ Initiatives/ Customers Product
Owner
Iteration
Retrospective
Demo
Planning Meeting
Daily Meetings Daily
Meetings
Steps
Principle
Feedback Loop
Long loops are bad
Short loops are good
Recognize loops
Shrink them
Neglected Feedback Loops
Architecture
Requirements
New features
Bug fixes
SCMDevelopers
Watch
Build
Unit Tests
Deploy to Dev
Integration Tests
First Look
Continuous Testing
On Demand Deploy to QA
Manual Testing
Requirements
Requirements
Write Code
The Traditional Approach
Demo
Rewrite
“Discussion”
Typically a confrontation &
argument
The demo forces a
discussion of the requirements
An isolated event, primarily worked by the
customer proxy
Demo
Write Code
Requirements
The Agile Approach
Rewrite
Before significant time
and $$ is invested
Discuss
Include the Golden Triad
Dev QA
Customer
ExperimentationLearn about software by writing software
Can’t study your way into experience
Like riding a bike
3+ experiments
Creating feedback loops
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Requirements
Rewrite
Discuss
Development
Developers disagree on
which Javascript toolkit is best
Node.js
Bootstrap
Angular.js
Pick one
SOA
Monolithic
Peer to peer
Pick one
Developers disagree on
which architecture is best
Demo
Revise Rewrite Adjust
Frequent demos discover communication
failures early
Continue until you can demo
Discuss
Intentional Experimentation Study
Experiment
Learn
Decide! Learn
Learn Decide!
Two Paths
Outline
What is Agile?
What is GROWS?
What should I be doing?
Managers and Executives
Leadership
Vision
ShareCreate
Progress
EnsureTrack
Vision
Initiative
Themes
Epics
Features
Stories
Initiative
Themes
Epics
Features
Stories Days
Iterations
Months
Quarters
Years
Optional
Optional
Vision
3 to 5 initiatives
On the wall
Visible
Consumable
Electronic Tools
Hide size
Hide complexity
Great system of record
Great for remote teams
Work off the wall
Traceability
No orphan work
Everything fits in an initiative
Or we add a new initiative
Line of Sight
Everyone knows why
Everyone can understand
Commander’s Intent
No cogs in a machine
Progress
Track it
Progress
Don’t micromanage
Watch the appropriate level
Initiative
Themes
Epics
Features
Stories
Appropriate Level
Release Planning
Releases contain features
How many are ready to ship?
Releases contain features
Team Release Date
Release Theme
# Features
# Stories
Stories Complete
% Done
1
2
3
Release dateBurn Up Chart
Time
Features
Features in the release
Required rate of work
Will we hit our date?
Time
Features
ACTUAL rate of work
Burn Up Chart
Time
Features
ACTUAL rate of work
Feature Creep
Time
FeaturesACTUAL
rate of work
Observe Progress
On track
Behind
Unrealistic
The Solution
Reduce features
DO NOT focus on increased work
Good or Not?
Time
Features
ACTUAL rate of work
What’s the Fix?
Time
Features
How do I make the team work harder?
Longer Hours
Work Faster!Even Later
More Mistakes
Lots of Debugger
Time
What’s the Fix?
Time
Features
What’s the Fix?
Time
Features
What’s the Fix?
Time
Features
What Happens to Overloaded Planes?
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Leadership
Vision Progress
Distinct training & practices for different rolesEmbraces the Dreyfus modelIntentional experimentationDynamicInclusive
