Agile Experiment PDF-Import 2007

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

Iterations

1. 8.11. - 19.11. (Thu.-Mon.)
2. 20.11. - 3.12. (Tue.-Mon.)
3. 4.12. - 17.12. (Tue.-Mon.)

Practices to Adopt

Suggestions

• 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

Agile Methodolgy in General

Agile Manifesto

• http://agilemanifesto.org/

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

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)

Other Pages

Writer/ToDo/PDF Import