AgEnD Agility Enhanced Development

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AgEnD Agility Enhanced Development

• Marcelo Schenone
• Sergio Villagra

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Introduction

• Agile Methodologies balance process sufficiency
  inside small development teams.
• AgEnD regards people as the most essential
  variable in software development.
• Process improvement is required to achieve
  success.

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Overview

• Constrained time iterations.
• Phases include Feasibility, Requirements-Analysis
  , Design, Implementation-Testing, Deployment.
• An architecture should be developed early on to
  minimize rework.
• Applicable to small, collocated teams of no more
  than 15 people.

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Milestones and Deliverables

• At least one milestone per phase. Based on
  Boehms ideas.
• These milestones are AgEnD Objectives, AgEnD
  Architecture and AgEnD Release.
• AgEnD Objectives includes the Vision document.
• AgEnD Architecture includes the Architectures
  Blueprint document.
• AgEnD Release includes the executable System
  itself.

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Roles

• Executive Sponsor.
• Project Manager.
• Architect.
• Coordinator.
• Analyst.
• Designer-Programmer.
• Writer.
• Tester.
• Domain Expert.
• User.
• Knowledge Manager.

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Managing an Iteration

• The Project Manager defines with the teams
  agreement the functionality to be delivered in a
  certain iteration.
• The Analysts elicit requirements to create the
  use cases. These are handed to the Programmers.
• Programmers estimate the time needed to implement
  a use case.
• The Iteration Plan is formulated with all the
  input from the estimations.

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Component Oriented Vs. Task Oriented

• AgEnD does not prescribe specific tasks for each
  deliverable.
• Artifacts are built in a black box fashion.
• People are trusted to be responsible for
  implementing a given artifact.
• Traditional methodologies use a white box
  approach as people are considered replaceable
  components.

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AgEnD On Peopleware

• To build a synergistic and cohesive team should
  be the one of the main objectives of the Project
  Manager.
• Physical space is very relevant to help the team
  maximize communication.
• The Project Manager should strive to remove any
  obstacle the team encounters during their work.

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AgEnD On Peopleware

• Business people and developers work together
  throughout the project.
• The team holds frequent meetings to customize the
  methodology.
• People-oriented practices are encouraged e.g..
  pair programming, healthy environment, etc.

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AgEnD On Knowledge Management

• A common weakness of Agile Methodologies is their
  lack of knowledge transfer.
• AgEnD builds a knowledge factory based on
  Basilis ideas.
• The objective is to be able to reuse the
  experience generated in a project.
• The Knowledge Manager is responsible for
  packaging and distributing this knowledge (may be
  a rotating member of the team or a full time
  person).

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Conclusion

• AgEnD is an Agile Methodology with a focus on
  peopleware and knowledge management.
• An iterative and incremental approach is used to
  maintain visibility.
• The knowledge factory helps to reuse experience.
• Research is being conducted to establish best
  practices in every phase.