Agile Experiment PDF-Import 2007
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A loose gathering of resources and ideas about the Agile Experiment in developing PDF-Import in 2007.
Organization
Time Frame
From 5.11.2007: 4-6 weeks
Regular Meetings
Daily Scrum: 13:40 - 13:55
Iterations
- 8.11. - 19.11. (Thu.-Mon.)
- 20.11. - 3.12. (Tue.-Mon.)
- 4.12. - 17.12. (Tue.-Mon.)
1st Iteration Special Meetings
| Planning: | 8.11. | 10:30-12:00 |
| Teaminternal Planning: | 8.11. | 12:30-14:00 |
| Review: | 19.11. | 12:00-14:00 |
| Teaminternal Retrospective: | 19.11. | 15:00-17:00 |
Planning
Product Backlog
- (Link to the Product Backlog page for this project) -
Example and description of a Product Backlog
Hints for the Product Backlog Maintainer
Characteristics of User Stories
User stories shall be "INVESTed":
- independent
- negotiable
- valuable
- estimable
- small
- testable
Iteration Backlogs
(Link to the Iteration Backlog pages)
Agile Methodolgy in General
Agile Manifesto
English descriptions
- Lots of short, precise, useful information
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
- http://www.think-box.co.uk/pdf/scrum/IntroductionToScrum.pdf
German descriptions (as most team members are german, these may be useful)
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Family
Suggested Practices to Adopt
- Scrum roles (Product Owner, Team, Scrum master)
- Colocation
- Team that includes definition, code-writing and testing together
- Time Boxing
- Continuous testing
- Short, fixed-time iterations
- Daily (or more frequent) integration + builds
- "Scope" is variable <=> "time", "cost" and "quality" are fix.
- Regular reflection
Scrum "Smells": Hints that something goes wrong
- Loss of Rhythm - Sprints are not always the same length.
- Talking Chickens - Non team members talk at daily scrums.
- Missing Pigs - Not all (fully assigned) team members attend the daily scrum.
- Persistent Signatures - Progress charts in later iterations look as fluctuative as in the first iterations.
- ScrumMaster Assigns Work - In planning, the scrum master assigns work, instead of the developers signing up.
- The Daily Scrum is For the ScrumMaster - Daily scrums feel like reporting sessions to the scrum master.
- Specialized Job Roles - A project team has highly specialized job roles ("architect", "tester" etc.)
