Improving the Odds of Your Agile Transformation

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Jeremy Jarrell@jeremyjarrell

Improving the Odds of Your Agile Transformation

No Perfect Recipe

33 Practices of Successful Teams

Ready to Cook

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No questions left

Clear end goal

Ready to Cook

Not ambiguous

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Negotiable

Valuable

Estimateable

Independent

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Sized Appropriately

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INVEST

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Valuable

Estimateable

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Let salespeople access the product

Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product using a username and password encrypted with MD5

Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product using a username and password

Only apply INVEST to stories your team is almost

ready to work on

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Estimated

Emergent

Backlogs Should be DEEP

Detailed Appropriately

Prioritized

Done Means Done

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Are there corner cases?

What will we not do?

Done Means “Done”

What is the goal?

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Acceptance Criteria helps us know when a story is finished

13Add the Ability for a Salesperson to Log into the Product

The user gets 3 tries to enter their password

Password reset is not part of this story

After login, the user is redirected to dashboard

This story is done…

but it still needs to be tested.

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Peer reviewed

Added to deploy script

Done Criteria

Unit tested

Keep It Together

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Forming

Storming Norming

Performing

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More than 9

Too small

What Is the Right Size

Less than 5

Too big7±2

Research at Harvard

University has shown that

the optimum size is five

people.

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Define Acceptance Criteria

Agree on Done Criteria

Where to Go from Here

Get to INVEST

Keep Your Teams Together

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