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Panch’Tantras from High Performing Agile Development Teams

Yashasree Barve

August 8, 2012


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The Agile Development Panch’Tantras

Tantra# 1

Tantra# 2

Tantra# 3 Tantra

# 4Tantra

# 5


Tantra # 1 - Agile Architecture

Tantra# 1

Re-align Architect’s Role in Projects

Value of Sprint 0

Bring Big Picture Thinking to the Teams


Agile Architects - More Involved

Architects’ Group at Enterprise Level

Agile Teams

Agile Team

Agile Team


Well Begun is Half Done - Sprint Zero

Help the Team to

Think through


Bring Big Picture Thinking to the Team

Does the Acceptance

Criteria of the story cover non functional requirements?

Any possibility to reuse any available assets, or any reusable

asset that can be created?

Should we discuss the story with other groups such as Infrastructure,

Or Support groups?

Does the team follow the engineering practices?

Any scope for Automation?


Tantra # 2 - Agile Design

Tantra# 2

Design Discussions every Sprint

Refactoring

Back to the Basics


Design Discussions

Way for team to come

together to think through Discuss and

debate design approaches

Design together,

review individually


Refactoring

Why can’t you do it right the first time?


Back to the Basics

Learning and practicing the

basic principles

SOLID principles

Hackfests,

Code Retreat, Group Coding


Tantra # 3 - Agile Development

Tantra# 3

Source Code Control

Caring for Code Quality

Software Craftsmanship


Source Code Control

Collective Code Ownership


Product Scorecard Initiative

Treat Code as a Craft


Tantra # 4 - Agile Testing

Tantra# 4

Automated Tests

Test Driven Development

Continuous Integration


Automation

Eat, Sleep and Drink Automation

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Why Test Driven Development?

Start

Stop

Write a Failing TestWrite a Failing Test

Write a Code to

make Test Pass

Write a Code to

make Test Pass

Can’t think of more Tests

Refactor


Continuous Integration

Fail FastMove Faster


Tantra # 5 - Agile Support

Tantra# 5

Automated Deployments

Explore DevOps

Optimum Documentation


Automate Deployments

How much time does it take to take a one line change to

production?


DevOps for us was Building Relationship

� Face Time

� Collaboration

• Involve in Scrum meetings• Deploy/Debug/Test together

� Knowledge Sharing

� Face Time

� Collaboration

• Involve in Scrum meetings

• Deploy/Debug/Test together� Knowledge Sharing


Our Journey of Being Agile

2011

2007

Waterfall

DevOps

2009

Engineering

Practices

2008

Realign

Architect Group


Recapping the Panch’Tantras

Tantra# 1

Tantra# 2

Tantra# 3 Tantra

# 4Tantra

# 5

Questions?

Thank You

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