Experiences From Agile Projects Great and Small talk, delivered by Craig Smith and Paul King at the Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) 2009 in Brisbane.

1. Experiences from Agile Projects
Great & Small
Craig Smith Dr. Paul King
Suncorp ASERT

2. Welcome…

3. Image http://blog.theworkinggroup.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/agile-manifesto1.gif
Agile Manifesto

4. Agile Pyramid
Approach
Practices
Principles
Values
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5. Scrum Practices
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6. Image Beck, Kent – Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
XP Practices

7. Agile Lifecycle - Concept
5%
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8. Agile Lifecycle - Initiate
10%
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9. Agile Lifecycle - Deliver
80%
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10. Agile Lifecycle - Deploy
5%
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11. Project
Sponsor
Project
Manager Program
Enterprise Manager
Architect
Iteration
Manager
Tech
lead
Business
Analyst Infra-
Application Core structure
Owner Lead
Team
Tester
Bus.
SME
Architect Software
Engineer Support
Other key Analyst
stakeholders
Extended
Team
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Agile Team

12. Concept  Initiate  Deliver  Deploy
Storycards & iteration management
Collaboration
Development environments
Development tools
Testing
Continuous integration
Deployment
Monitoring
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Agile Tools Timeline

13. Agile
Team
Practices
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14. Daily Standup / Scrum

15. Daily Sitdown
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Post Standup Standup

17. Iteration Open/Kickoff/Demo

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Combine Meetings

19. Retrospective

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Iteration Length / Define Done

21. Software
Development
Practices
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22. 100% code Daily pair rotation
coverage from unit
tests Continuous improvement
through retrospectives
All production
code paired and
test-driven High levels of automation
Minimal design up front Light-weight metrics to
but an appreciation monitor progress
for when such design
made sense
Customer focused
outcomes
Full continuous integration
Developer Practices

23. Increase Productivity
Boundary testing
Disposable tests
Automate immutability,
cloneability & null
Inversion of control
Auto mock creation checking
Autogenerate random
test data

24. Collaboration

25. Development
environments
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26. Development
tools
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27. Clover

28. IDE Plugins

29. RYO IDE Plugins

30. • d
VCS: FishEye/SVNStat

31. Testing
tools
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32. Selenium

33. JMeter

34. Continuous
integration

35. Hudson

36. Deployment
tools
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37. Tableaux

38. [...]
<configuration>
<container>
> mvn cargo:deploy
<containerId>tomcat5x</containerId>
<type>remote</type>
</container>
<configuration>
<type>runtime</type>
<properties>
<cargo.remote.username>username</cargo.remote.username>
<cargo.remote.password>password</cargo.remote.password>
</properties>
</configuration>
<deployer>
<type>remote</type>
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>war group id</groupId>
<artifactId>war artifact id</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<properties>
<context>optional root context</context>
</properties>
<pingURL>opt. url to ping to know deployed</pingURL>
<pingTimeout>opt. timeout (default 20000ms)</pingTimeout>
</deployable>
[...]
Cargo

39. Cucumber Feature
Feature: Deployment
In order to use the latest version of testApp
A support officer should be able to
Check that testApp.war has been deployed to the remote machine
Scenario: User deploys
Given app testApp
When I deploy
Then the testApp.war file should be deployed to remote
Cucumber / Capistrano Step Definition
[...]
When /^I deploy$/ do
Dir.chdir(@app_dir) do
system "cap deploy:setup"
system "cap deploy"
end
end
Then /^ the testApp.war file should be deployed
to remote$/ do
[...]
Deployment Tests

40. Monitoring
tools
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41. Splunk

42. Tools Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Collaboration Storycards & Deployment
iteration
Development tools management Monitoring
Testing Development
environments
Continuous
integration

43. Project
Characteristics

44. Project Duration
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45. Image http:// www.dilbert.com
Project Type

46. Resistance
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47. Image http://www.community-links.org/linksuk/wp-content/images/kiss.jpg
Design Constraints

48. Equipment
Tools
Facilities
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49. Distributed Teams
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50. Distributed Pairing: DocShare

51. Distributed Pairing: Virtual Dev

52. Collaboration: Story Walls

53. Virtual Collaboration: XPlanner

54. Virtual Collaboration: Jira

55. Virtual Collaboration: Agilo

56. Virtual Collaboration: Confluence

57. Distributed Retrospectives

58. Virtual Planning poker

59. Facilities

60. People
&
Roles
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61. Influence (@waterfalldave)
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Agile Coach / Experience

63. Co-Located Customer
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64. Image http://www.agile-software-development.com/2007/03/what-if-my-agile-development-colleagues.html
Embracing The Wider Team

65. Wider Team: Test / QA
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66. Image http://www.stellman-greene.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/business-analyst.png
Wider Team: Business Analyst

67. Wider Team: Infrastructure
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68. Image http://www.icef.com/uploads/pics/berlin_2007_training_03.JPG
Wider Team: Change Manager

69. Wider Team: Usability
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Attracting Quality Staff

71. Third Party Vendors
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72. Change
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73. Bottom Up
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74. Top Down
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75. Share &
learn from
experiences
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76. That’s
Time...
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77. Want More Information?
Craig Smith
http://www.suncorp.com.au
http://www.agileacademy.com.au
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
@smithcdau
Dr. Paul King
http://www.asert.com.au
paulk@asert.com.au
@paulk_asert

78. Acknowledgments
Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest
diversified financial services providers, supplying banking,
insurance and wealth management products to around 7
million customers through well-established and recognised
brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance
Agency, Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as
Suncorp and GIO. Today, Suncorp is Australia's fifth
largest bank and second largest domestic general
insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp has
representation in 450 offices, branches and agencies
throughout Australia and New Zealand.
ASERT is one of Australia’s leading suppliers of
development services, mentoring and training in Agile,
Web Services, Web Applications, Java, Groovy and Grails.