Agile methodologies

Agile methodologies

1. Agile

   • Guidance on how to choose methods
   • Principles
     • Help your team think and interact to achieve agility
   • Definition: Ability to continuously adapt & make improvements to the way you work
   • IS NOT a methodology
     • There are some methodologies that follow the agile principles
       • SCRUM or Extreme programming for instance

2. SCRUM

   • Pillars
     • Inspection
     • Transparency
     • Apatation
   • Components
     • Roles
       • Development team
         • Works
       • Product owner
         • Define and sequence the work
       • SCRUM master
         • Organize
     • Events
       • Sprint
         • Period of 2-4 weeks where the team sets an objective to fulfill within this period
       • Sprint planning
         • Define the work for the sprint
       • Daily Scrum
         • 15 minute gathering where people decide what they plan to do in the day and share information about what they have done or will do
       • Sprint review
         • Meeting to discuss what has been done and how
       • Sprint retrospective
         • Decide how to improve
     • Artefacts
       • Product backlog
         • List of things that the Product owner might want
       • Sprint backlog
         • Items that have been selected for the sprint
       • Increment
         • The final delivery

3. User stories

   • Working software is the primary measure of progress
     • Identify what is really valuable and what is not
   • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
     • Who, what and why (See what the customer really needs)
       • Stories
   • Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.