Beyond the two week iteration - an experience report

Beyond the two-week iteration:an experience report

Simon Hildrew

The Guardian @sihil

Founded in 1821

Website growth

1999 1m

March 2014 100m

wwwmonthly uniques

“Its core purpose is to secure the financial and editorial independence of

the Guardian in perpetuity.”

2010 2014

‘Products’ 1 ~15

Services / Deployables 4 ~120

Department size 40 160

99 problems

25 releases a year

Stakeholder anxiety

Release TrifleBrooke Raymond: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brooke/2364980971

Inflexibility

Determining value

Traditional Agile has limits

Joe Lewis: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanbeiji/220644819

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People and Process

Agile Command & Control

Pam Falcioni: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ducatisti/3445071198

Developer Autonomy

Jeff Mayer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/soundman1024/5813948758

HANDBOOK FOR NEW EMPLOYEES

A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one’s there

telling you what to do

FIRST EDITION

2012

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HANDBOOK FOR NEW EMPLOYEES

A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one’s there

telling you what to do

FIRST EDITION

2012

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step 1. Unplug cords from wallstep 2. Move your deskstep 3. Plug cords back into wallstep 4. Get back to work

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Fred George’s Programmer Anarchy

Copyright © 2011 by Forward Internet Group, Ltd

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ANARCHY

“Developer Migration”

• Continually updated list of engineer requirements• Anyone can ask to move• Feedback on unsuccessful requests

Technical Enablers

Continuous Delivery

Riff-Raff

Change in attitudesallison: https://www.flickr.com/photos/look_ma_im_flying_pictures/2222370392

Decouple deploymentfrom feature releases

Fix small things; fast

Who knows…?

Guessing & arguing easier than measuring

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nouqraz/200049988

Metrics

change deployedchange deployed

Hypothesis testing

Audience Segmentation

Dev QA Ops

Gatekeeper

Watchman/OverseerConsultant

Manual regression tester

Test automationFeature testing

Product developer

Product developer, operations & support

→ Continuous improvement → Confidence → Feature releases → De facto change → Everyone responsible

Two weeksAnxious stakeholdersTrifle releasesInflexible sprintsSole/unclear ‘value’ owner

Thanks!

Simon Hildrew

@[email protected]

http://github.com/guardian