Agile For Teams
Agile For Teams
About the Book
Matt Kocaj's #agileforteams concept provides a lightweight and pragmatic approach to agile that could provide huge benefits to a lot of teams. If your team is struggling with agile or is just getting started on their agile journey, then #agileforteams is definitely worth a look.
Jeremy Jarrell, Pluralsight author and agile coach.
#agileforteams is a playbook for pragmatic software development, scientific work tracking and estimation, evidence based decision making, and practical no-nonsense leadership advice. If you don't have time for theories and simply need a concrete tried and tested process to help your team deliver smarter into prod, then you'll like what you find in this book.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Vision
- What is this #agileforteams thing about?
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Why should you care about Agile?
- Because you care about delivery
- Because you care about your team’s morale
- You care about cost, optimisation and efficiency
- You care about building the right thing more than the wrong thing really productively
- You care because using the #agileforteams process, you stand to gain:
- Questions and Actions
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What is Agile?
- Agile is open ended, so you need guidance
- The answer is always: It depends.
- Process first, Tooling second
- Questions and Actions
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Part 1: The Retrospective
- Questions and Actions
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Part 2: The Agile “iterative” cycles
- Loops, feedback and getting up to speed
- So what are these “loops” then?
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The Principle of #smallbatches
- Because Small is Fast
- Because Small is Easier
- Because Smaller is Clearer
- Because Small == Low Risk
- Because Small gives you Fast Feedback
- Small often removes dependencies
- So how do you get to Small?
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Pivotal Tracker
- Compared to other tools
- The Killer Feature
- Questions and Actions
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Part 3: The Story Lifecycle
- Writing a high-quality Story
- Defining a high-quality Story
- Estimating a Story
- Starting
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Building
- Mainline Development
- Automated Testing
- Continuous Monitoring in Production
- Fast Deployments
- Simple Architecture
- So what do you get in return?
- Finishing
- Delivering
- Acceptance (sign off) and Rejections
- Rinse and Repeat
- Questions and Actions
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Part 4: Points on the Scoreboard
- When is it going to happen?
- Why is Velocity so important?
- An Agile process needs to be sustainable
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Thoughts on Bugs and Chores
- Bugs
- Chores
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Part 5: How can I get this happening in my team today?
- Do your stakeholders need convincing?
- What new part of your project is Low Risk?
- Just bite the bullet and do a Hard Cutover.
- Final thoughts, housekeeping and parting inspiration
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