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Overcoming Three Pitfalls of Transitioning to Agile
Johanna RothmanNew: Hiring Geeks That Fitwww.jrothman.com@[email protected]
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Three Common Pitfalls to Agile Transition
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1. Stories too big for the iteration
2.“We need an expert!”
3. Implementation across the architecture, not through it
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“The Iteration is Too Short” akaThe Stories are Too Big
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We can’t get anything done in 2 weeks
We can’t get anything done in 3 weeks
We can’t get anything done in 4 weeks
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Stories are humungous
What do you do?
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Strategies for “Stories are too Big”
Swarm around stories
What’s the first thing you can do
that adds business value?
Shorten the iterations
Use kanban so you can see the
flow of features through the
teams and see bottlenecks
(visualize where things are)
Stop estimating; Start delivering
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Experts are Rampant
“I’ll take this story. John will take that story. Dan takes this
story.”
“We need an expert for that story.”
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Strategies for “We Need Experts”
Never let the expert work alone
Pair the expert with another person
Pair other people together
Banish the expert and let the team
manage the problem
Stagger the projects to use the expert
Hire more experts
Understand why you have this problem
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Implementation Through the Architecture
An artifact of component-based organization
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What You Want to Implement
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