Agile Software Development

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Agile Software Development
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Agenda
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What is Agility?

• Agility is the ability to both create and
  respond to change in order to profit in a
  turbulent buisness environment.
• Jim Highsmith, Agile Software Development
  Ecosystems, Preface XXIII

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Chaordic Chaos mixed with order

• Natural blend of Chaos and Order
• Most organisations and projects exhibt chaordic
  structures
• Is about self-organisation and self-governance,
  evolutionary like nature
• Often used to describe agile software development
  processes.

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Management and Developing before Agile

• Countermovement to heavy and bureaucratic
  software development processes
• Waterfall
• V-Modell
• Beginning in the early 1990ies, became publically
  known in 1999 with Kent Becks Extreme
  Programming

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Agile Manifesto

• Individuals and interactions over processes and
  tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
  
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
• Source Agile Manifesto, http//agilemanifesto.or
  g, 3/29/2006

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This does NOT mean...

• ... processes and tools dont matter.
• ... that we need no documentation.
• ... that we need no contracts.
• ... make a plan and follow it is obsolete.

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Principles

• Keep it simple, small and stupid,
  straigthforward, smart (KISS)
• Use resources carefully
• Chaordic nature of projects and organisations

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Flavours of Agile Development
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Extreme Programming

• iterative
• adaptive
• continous integration/build
• became generally known with Kent Beck

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Scrum

• living backlog of prioritized work to be done
• Completion of a fixed set of backlog items in a
  series of short iterations (sprints)
• Brief planning session to define backlog items
  for the next sprint
• Retrospective for all team members to reflect the
  last sprint

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Crystal

• Different methods for different group sizes
• Common feature set
• Frequent Delivery
• Reflective Improvement
• Close Communication
• Crystal Clear most known

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Any questions?