Agile :what i learnt so far

Agile : What I learnt so far
@RohanChandane

Practices
1. Management Practices
2. Development Practices
3. Testing Practices

1. Management Practices
- Inception
- Story Estimation & Prioritization
- Scrum
- IKO
- Standup
- Retrospective

Inception
- Product intro
- Budget allocation
- Wireframes / Screenshots
- User journeys
- Data flow diagram
- Epics creation
- Story creation

Story Estimation
- Poker cards - T Shirt Size

Story Prioritization
- Prioritization of stories was based on
- must have features
- good to have features
- total project budget allocation
- Adding prioritized stories to backlog

Scrum
- 2 weeks sprint cycle
- Picking up the stories for next release
- From product backlogs
- No of picked stories are based on
- Total points allocated for that particular sprint
- Developer pair count
- Actual deliverable at the end of the sprint

IKO - Iteration Kick Off
General discussion/ analysis about
- What we going to deliver in this sprint
- Looking at previous incomplete stories
- Picking up new stories for the interaction
- Discussing stories in details with dev team

...
- Why IKO
- Because not all Developers / QAs were involved in
inception
- IKO to Story Analysis section on board:
- Retrospected
- General discussion about project was moved to
product brief in scrum meeting (BA was responsible for
that)

Standup
- Quick standup (practicing it with fixed time)
- 10 min stand up, on time (eg. at 9:10am)
- alarm at 9:20am to make it a habit of 10 min stand up
- What to achieve from each individual
- What I did yesterday
- What I am going to do today
- What help I may need from team today

...
- Intervention techniques
- Raising hand
- if topic is not related to entire team
- so that it can be discussed separately
- Daily standup host rotation
- Everybody gets an idea about what's going on with all
stories

Retrospectives
- Practice Retro regularly
- An hr / week (eg. on friday, in 2nd half of the day)
- Helps to resolve issues quickly
- Take quick actions on issues in next week
- Discuss previous issues in next retro before starting
with new retro topics

Retrospectives
- This can be format for retro board
What went wrong What went right
What we should keep doing What we should stop doing

...
Some other ideas for retrospective
- Drawing a fishbone diagram
- Drawing a team mood chart
- Drawing Face or Ice Cream for last working Sprint /
Week

...
Team Mood chart example
Team
members
Day1 Day10

2. Development Practices
- Scrum/Kanban board
- Story analysis
- Story tasking
- Pair programming
- Rotation
- TDD
- Cruise control

Scrum / Kanban Board
Backlog
Story
Analysis Development System Testing Delivered
UX
Dev
QA
UX
Dev
QA
UX
Dev
QA
UX
Dev
QA
UX
Dev
QA
UX
Dev
QA
Dev pool QA pool

Story Analysis
- Before moving story from Backlog to Development
- Adding sticky notes on story mentioning UX, Dev, QA
UX -
Dev -
QA -

Story Tasking
- Should be done before moving story from Analysis to Dev
- Dividing story into small tasks
- Involving QA, so that task can be showcased to QA while
working on story
- to ease the pressure on QA at the end of the story
Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4

Pair Programming
- Experiment with pairing developer with different
technology & find out what works best for the team
- UX (UI/Front-end/JavaScript) / Java
- Java / Java
- UX / UX
- TDD / BDD

...
- Pair Rotations
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

...
- Pair Stations
- Instead of individual
machines
- Collaborative desks
- So that everyone can interact
more with each other

3. Testing Practices
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- Integration Testing
- Variant Testing
- alpha, beta & gamma environments

Reference:
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