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Baby steps in an Agile world
Agile strategies and techniques that will save your sanity while making your
committee better. Probably.
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None of what I talk about here has anything to do with individuals or groups specifically. After going through two redesigns of the campus web presence, spending two years on a large scale campus project, and working with countless clients in the *real world* along with Startups I have devised the following “Agile story.” Use at your own risk.
Disclaimer
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# S: (adj) agile, nimble, quick, spry (moving quickly and lightly) "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
- http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=agile
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Agile Manifesto •Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
•Working software over comprehensive documentation
•Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
•Responding to change over following a plan
http://agilemanifesto.org/
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User stories•Customer focus: “Improve the
results of searching for jobs.”
•Make them elevator friendly: 30 seconds to explain or less.
•Make them the right size: Something that can be done in a week or two.
•Make them testable: “A user can mark 5 jobs for a follow-up in under 2 min”
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People that don’t work in the same physical space need software.
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Basecamp
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•Overall feature or story item
•Tasks or stories
•Who is responsible, when is it to be done, comments, was it complete?
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Pivotal tracker
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Time estimation and management
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http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php?date=120309
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Other software components
•Besides Basecamp or Pivotal Tracker?
•Word, Excel, notepad…
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Integrate version control with bug reporting and fixing.
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Process
•Item is completed
•Fix is tested, status is reported and changed
•User has feedback added, feedback assessed
•New story is written or item is reopened
•Back to step 1
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Use a process that works for you.
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In short
•Use Basecamp or excel or a word document
•Break down the project for the sponsor (and you)
•Provide time estimates for each phase
•Share information, open up
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About me.Jesse Rodgers
Associate Director, VeloCity -- University of Waterloo
Blog: http://whoyoucallingajesse.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jrodgers
Email: [email protected]