1. Catch Agile
Antipatterns of using Agile: how to survive
by Yuriy V. Silvestrov

2. About me
Yuriy V. Silvestrov
10+ years record in IT, 8+ years devoted to managing
projects. Now working for Ciklum, managing a team of
30+ persons making different software for Danish financial
organizations.
Please visit my website
http://yuriy.silvestrov.com
for more info or contact me at
yuriy@silvestrov.com
Twitter: @ysilvestrov

3. Based on my own and About lection
team experience
and a lot of interviews
conducted
Have been presented in
Ciklum Donetsk,
Vinnitsa and Odessa last
month
but reworked a
afterwards.

4. ⌛ < 30
Time is counting

5. Catches
• When size matters
• When Agile wouldn’t work
• Dealing with Conveyor
• Scrum-like
• Scrum cargo cult
• Common sense bias
• Anything beyond agile?
Q&A
Content

6. Snowflake men by Max Dorofeev

7. Scrum
XP
 Kanban
 Lean
 Crystal
Agile frameworks

8. Catch 1: quick grow

9. Cockburn
Scale
L L6 L20 L40 L100 The closer the
project is to the
E E6 E20 E40 E100
right-top, the
D D6 D20 D40 D100 more formal
process you
C C6 C20 C40 C100 need.
21-4 41-1
1-6 7-20 0 00

10. Start creating procedures
May be even to become more formal and
less agile
When the project and team became more
mature, you could bring agility back
Solution?

11. Customer collaboration over contract
negotiation
Responding to change over following a
plan
Individuals and interactions over processes
and tools
Working software over comprehensive
documentation
Catch 2: Agile principles violation

12. Try to keep agility inside, and be formal
seen from outside
Actually, it’s rather political then project
management problem, and you need to
solve it with the political tools J
Solution?

13. “DeathMarch” by Edward Yourdon

14. Catch 3: dealing with conveyor

15. No releases schedule
Priorities changing often
Hard to estimate size of each element
Why Scrum is not best choice

16. Try Kanban
Solution?

17. Catch 4: scrum-like

18. Should always try to improve
Scrum-like symptoms:
No retrospectives

19. Scrum-like symptoms:
Standup-meeting as speech to PM

20. Code Complete ✔
Unit Tested
e! ✔
Peer Reviewed ✔
QA Complete o n ✔
Documented D ✔
Scrum-like symptoms:
No Done-Done criteria

21. Pareto rule:
80% of task value
takes 20% time.
Another 20% takes
another 80% of time.
Scrum-like symptoms:
80% done

22. Try to review your process against the
agile manifesto and checklists
If something is missing, think if you could
benefit from bringing it back.
Solution?

23. Catch 5: Scrum cargo cult

24. Rethink you process: are you benefitting
from all of you tools and processes?
Formal and informal retrospectives should
help.
Solution

25. Catch 6: Common sense bias

26. Pairprogramming
Planning poker
Common sense bias examples

27. Measure!
Implement the right metrics
Solution?

28. Catch 7: Is there anything beyond
Agile?

29. Integration Scope Time
Cost Quality Human Resource
Communications Risk Procurement
SCRUM to PMBOK areas

30. Learn!
Solution?

31. ???
Questions?

32. yuriy@silvestrov.com
Thank you!