Xanpan

Team Centric Agile Software Development

Xanpan is… a cross between XP and Kanban… is an example of a roll-your-own method… is team centric Agile... is distilled from Allan Kelly’s own experiences running development teams and then helping multiple teams adopt Agile working methods and practices. Xanpan draws ideas from Kanban and Lean, XP and Scrum, Product Management and Business Analysis, and many other places. Allan tells the Xanpan story through a series of boards which tell the story of different teams. In between he fills in the principles, practices and thinking which together constitutes Xanpan.

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Xanpan is… a cross between XP and Kanban… is an example of a roll-your-own method… is team centric agile software development... is distilled from Allan Kelly’s own experiences running development teams and then helping multiple teams adopt Agile working methods and practices. Xanpan draws ideas from Kanban and Lean, XP and Scrum, Product Management and Business Analysis, and many other places.

Allan tells the Xanpan story through a series of boards which tell the story of different teams. In between he fills in the principles, practices and thinking which together constitutes Xanpan.

About the Author

Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world, from system admin to development manager by way of programmer and product manager. Today he works helping teams adopt and deepen Agile practices, and writing far too much. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy.

He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - reflections on agile and software development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com), a regular conference speaker and frequent contributor to journals.

More about Allan at http://www.allankelly.net and on Twitter as @allankellynet (http://twitter.com/allankellynet).

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An unfinished book
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What people say about Xanpan….
About the author
Introduction
- Why write another book about Agile?
- This and subsequent books
- References
Prologue
- Dear Customer: The Truth About IT Projects
1 Xanpan Principles
- 1.1 Work in iterations
- 1.2 Team-centric: flow the work to the team
- 1.3 Work to improve Flow
- 1.4 Quality is free (provided you invest in it)
- Quality
- 1.5 Visualise
- 1.6 References
2 Board 1
3 Iterations
- 3.1 Releasable
- 3.2 Iteration sequence
- 3.3 Mid-week to mid-week
- 3.4 Iteration length
- 3.5 Release schedules
- 3.6 The CEO test
- 3.7 References
4 Planning Meetings
- 4.1 The Players
- 4.2 The Artefacts
- 4.3 The Meeting Sequence
- 4.4 The Planning Game
- 4.5 Velocity and currency
- 4.6 Product Owner Preparations (Homework)
- 4.7 References
5 Watching the numbers
- 5.1 Where does the time go?
- 5.2 Hitting a deadline
- 5.3 Other numbers
6 Non-technical Practices
- 6.1 Work in routines
- 6.2 Multiple work streams per team
- 6.3 Benchmark against yourself
- 6.4 Break down stories to tasks
- 6.5 Small pieces of work
- 6.6 Planning horizons
- 6.7 Flow
- 6.8 Mental flow
- 6.9 Absolute Prioritisation
- 6.10 Product Ownership
- 6.11 Pick ‘n Mix
- 6.12 Action over words: ‘just-do-it’, experimentation
- 6.13 References
7 Technical Practices
- 7.1 Test-Driven Development
- 7.2 Test-Driven Development (Unit Testing)
- 7.3 Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
- 7.4 Refactoring
- 7.5 Frequent builds
- 7.6 Continuous Integration
- 7.7 Source code control
- 7.8 Code Reviews
- 7.9 Pair programming
- 7.10 Static analysis
- 7.11 Coding Standards
- 7.12 Finally
- 7.13 References
8 Planning beyond the Iteration
- 8.1 Iteration Planning
- 8.2 Quarterly Plans
- 8.3 Release plans
- 8.4 Roadmaps
- 8.5 Too fast for planning?
- 8.6 Finally
- 8.7 References
9 Board 3 - planned, unplanned and improving
- 9.1 Planned and Unplanned
- 9.2 Blocked, dropped
- 9.3 Improving
- 9.4 Board philosophy
- 9.5 Extending the board
- 9.6 References
10 Origins of Xanpan
- 10.1 References
Appendix: Quality
- Internal and External quality
- Software quality
- Quality Onion
- Defects
- Changeability (Maintainability)
- Obtaining the qualities (design)
- Quality and business value
- Finally
- References
Acknowledgements
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