there is no single way agile is done at microsoft this is the developer division’s story 3 week...
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Karen NgPrincipal Group Program ManagerVisual Studio Cloud ServicesMicrosoft
Agile and DevOps at Microsoft
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There is no single way Agile is done at Microsoft
This is the Developer Division’s story• 3 week sprints• Scrum at the team level• Emphasis on self-managed teams• Top-down and bottom-up• Expanding to DevOps
The punchline
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OLD: Schedule
2 years
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OLD: Schedule
Planning M1 M2
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OLD: Planning
Planning M1 M2
SpecsSpecs
Specs
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OLD: Planning
Planning M1 M2
SpecsSpecs
Specs
We knew exactly what to build, and we knew it
was right!
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OLD: Milestones
Planning M1 M2
Beta RTM
We had a perfect schedule and knew exactly when it would
be ready!
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OLD: Milestones
Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize
We now had perfect estimates and we understood how it would
all come together!
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OLD: Writing code
Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize
CodeComplete
We wrote all the code months before we shipped a release.
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OLD: Fixing bugs
Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize
Stabilize
We now just needed to stabilize the code and get it ready to ship to customers
A: Very well in the era in which it was born. But…
Q: How did it work?
Diego Lo Giudice and Dave West, ForresterFebruary 2011Transforming Application Delivery
Times have changed!“Firms today experience a much higher velocity of business change. Market opportunities appear or dissolve in months or weeks instead of years.“
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• Roles• Organization• Teams• Cadence• Plan• Practices
Guiding principles
Alignment
Autonomy
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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Sprint3-week sprints
Season6 month season
Vision18 month vision
6 18
3
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Our roles
Program Manager – Responsible to ensure we’re building the right thing.
Engineer – Responsible to ensure we’re building products that are fast, reliable, and well engineered.
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Organization chart
Program Management Engineering
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Our teams
Program Management Engineering
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• Cross discipline• 10-12 people• Self managing• Autonomous backlog• Intact for 12-18 months• Physical team rooms
Teams
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Q: Who’s the ScrumMaster?
PM Engineering
Question?
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• Yes, we do have some remote individuals. It’s the exception, not the rule.• We aim for remote teams, not remote
disciplines.
Q: What about remote employees?
Question?
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3 week sprints
3 weeks
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3 week sprints
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3Week 2 Week 3
Sprint 69Sprint 68 Sprint 70
Deployment
Sprint Planning
Done!
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What we accomplished
3 week sprints
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3Week 2 Week 3
Sprint 69Sprint 68 Sprint 70
The sprint plan
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Sprint mails
Plan Accomplished
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Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize
CodeComplete
Q: Are these real sprints? Question?
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A: Yes, these are real sprints Question?
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Q: What do you track?
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Sprint 69
Question?
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Things we don’t watch• Team burndown• Team velocity• Original estimate• Completed hours• Team capacity• # of bugs found
Q: What do you track?
Things we watch• # of bugs• Unit test coverage• Rolling build quality• Dev cycle time• Live site issues
Question?
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Live Site Incident
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Sprint3-week sprints
Season6 month season
Vision18 month vision
6 18
3
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Seasons
SpringFallSpring Fall
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Seasons
3 weeks
SpringFallSpring Fall
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How do you stay in sync?
3 weeks
SpringFallSpring Fall
Question?
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Team Chats
3 sprints
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1. What’s next on your backlog?
2. What’s your debt situation?
3. Any issues?
3 Questions
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Direct. No “lost in translation”.
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Direct. No “lost in translation”.
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Q: What about the details?
Experience Review
Question?
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• Storyboard of what you’re going to build• High level execution plan• Talk about sprints, not hours
• Feedback, feedback, feedback
Experience Review
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• Monthly view of service availability• Health check of operational metrics• Talk about what happened, how, and what
you’re doing about it
Service Review
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Service Review
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Sprint3-week sprints
Season6 month season
Vision18 month vision
3 6 18
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Vision
SpringFallSpring Fall
6 month plan
SpecsSpecsExperience Reviews
18 month vision
SpecsSpecsScenario Review
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Now what?
SpringFallSpring Fall
Done!
What did we learn over the last 6 months? What did customers tells us? What did the telemetry tell us?What changed in the marketplace?
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Planning
SpringFallSpring Fall
6 month plan
SpecsSpecsExperience Reviews
18 month vision
SpecsSpecsScenario Review
Done!Done!
& Learning
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Q: What about on prem? Question?
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1. Less is more2. Get out of your teams’ way3. Autonomy, mastery, purpose4. Plan & learn5. Have fun
Take-a-ways
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http://aka.ms/engineeringstories
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