Continuous Learning - The New ALM

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Continuous LearningThe New ALM

Gil Zilberfeld

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Who am I?

Agile helperSoftware improverAuthor of “Everyday Unit Testing”

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ALM – What is it good for?

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We want to create successful products!

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Define success!

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Product life-cycle

Research

Roadmap

BuildRelease

Validate

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Product life-cycle

Research

Roadmap

ALMRelease

Validate

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ALM Tools

StatusMetrics

Cross-referenceConstraintsAutomation

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Building the thing right

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The Agile Manifesto

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What if the requirements are wrong?

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“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” 

Peter F. Drucker

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ALM tools are optimized for efficiency,not effectiveness

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Building the right thing

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Analysis doesn’t work in innovative development

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What we call requirements are really assumptions

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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

Voltaire

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The cost of error

RoadmapFeature

RequirementStory

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Cost

• Re-work• Opportunity cost• Fear• Blame• Attrition

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Feedback loops

• In-house customer

• Customer representative

• Alpha / Beta

• Release

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The antidote for uncertainty is continuous learning

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Lean Startup

Build

MeasureLearn

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Continuous experimentation

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Product experimentation

Hypothesis

Acceptance criteria

BuildValidate

Refine

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Experiment board

Problem Hypothesis Possible experiments Experiments in Progress

Result

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The life cycle doesn’t end with CI ready

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DevOps

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Productization

Build

StabilizeMonitor

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Continuous improvement is, well, continuous

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Continuous learning requires short feedback loops

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Short feedback loops require size reduction

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Think small

Projects Teams Experiments

Code Build time Deploy time

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“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

Eric Ries

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ALM tools will some day support continuous learning• Portfolio level• Product level• Operations level• Team level

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We’re not there yet

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Don’t wait for the tools.Start learning now.

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Thank You!

Agile helperSoftware improverAuthor of “Everyday Unit Testing”

www.gilzilberfeld.comwww.everydayunittesting.com@gil_zilberfeld