Topic 12 Module Summary and Revision Guidance Agile Development

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Agile Development
Topic 12:
Module Summary and Revision Guidance
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Topic 12 Coverage
This topic will cover:
Revision of the module objectives
Review of the key elements of the topics covered
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The Agile Development Module
Scope and Coverage
The Agile Development module will:
Provide an introduction to the principles, people,
processes and practices of Agile development
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Prepare students for future trends in software
development practices
Reinforce understanding of the information systems
development process
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Module Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
Understand the background to Agile development
Understand the roles within an Agile development team
Understand the various Agile development techniques
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Understand an Agile development lifecycle
Understand the principles associated with an Agile
development approach
Be able to apply an Agile development approach to a
particular project scenario
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What is Agile?
A family of approaches:
- DSDM Atern
- Lean
- FDD
- XP
- Scrum
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- and others
Collectively they address:
- Engineering best practices
- Leadership philosophy
- Project management framework
- Development framework
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The Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
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Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more
www.agilemanifesto.org (2001)
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What is Waterfall?
Winston Royce, 1970, wrote
a paper: Managing the
Development of Large
Software Systems
Royce did not use the term
Feasibility
Analysis
Design
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Royce did not use the term
Waterfall at all
Royce acknowledged
prototyping, iteration and
incremental delivery
Code
Test
Implement
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What is DSDM Atern?
An Agile Project Delivery Framework that delivers
the right solution at the right time
- Any kind of project
- Focused on business benefit
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Focused on business benefit
- On-time and in budget
- Quality and rigour
- Incremental
- Collaborative
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Flexing Requirements
Features Cost
Time
Fixed
Traditional Approaches DSDM Atern
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Cost Time
Quality?
Quality
Features
Variable Variable
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The Structure of DSDM Atern
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The Philosophy of Atern (1)
Any project
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must be aligned to clearly defined strategic goals
must focus upon early delivery of real benefits to
the business
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The 8Principles of Atern
Deliver on time Develop iteratively
Build incrementally
from firm foundations
Focus on the
business need
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Collaborate
Never compromise
quality
Demonstrate control
Communicate continuously
and clearly
DSDM Consortium2007
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The DSDM Atern Lifecycle
Feasibility
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Team Roles and Responsibilities
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Product Overview
Business
Focus
Management
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Solution
Focus
Focus
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Practices: DSDM Aterns 5 Key
Techniques
MoSCoW prioritisation
Modelling
F ilit t d k h
MM
SS
CC
WW MM
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Facilitated workshops
Iterative development
Timeboxing
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Practices: MoSCoW Prioritisation
MMust have
O
SShould have
CC
WW
MM
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O
WWont have this time
MM
SS
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Practices: Modelling
Many industries use models (and prototypes) to:
- establish requirements
- confirm expectations
- test the achievability of objectives
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Examples of models:
- storyboards
- diagrams
- scale models (prototypes)
- working software (prototypes)
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Practices: Facilitated Workshops
A place where a specific job of work is done
and a product produced.
A team-based information gathering
and decision making technique
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Interactive communication
Empowered personnel
Independent facilitator
views
consensus
exchange
deliverables
decisions
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Practices: Iterative Development
This is a key technique to evolve ...
- from a high level idea
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- to a delivered product
- incrementally
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Practices: Timeboxing
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What is a Timebox?
A timebox is a fixed period of time,
at the end of which an objective has been met.
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The time available dictates work done
The aim of a timebox is to make something useful!!
A timebox is product-focused, not task-focused
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Further Guidance: DSDM Atern
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Agile Project Management
Major Planning Issues
Part 1:
- Control
- Risk
Part 2:
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Part 2:
- Configuration Management
- Quality
- Testing
- Metrics
- Maintainability
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What is Quality?
Fitness for purpose
Quality Control
(testing and rejection of
faulty products)
Quality Assurance
(definition of products
and quality criteria)
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Quality Management and a QM system
(the feedback from QC & QA to improve
the process using a system of tools, techniques
and standards etc)
Solution
Quality
Process
Quality
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What is a Requirement?
In simple terms, a requirement is a:
- feature
- function
service
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- service
- Constraint
that the solution needs to perform or exhibit.
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Agree to what you believe you can do
Estimating
Set realistic objectives!
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Then honour your commitments!
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Summary
The Agile Development module will:
- Provide an introduction to the principles, people,
processes and practices of Agile development
- Prepare students for future trends in software
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Prepare students for future trends in software
development practices
- Reinforce understanding of the information systems
development process
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Module Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
Understand the background to Agile development
Understand the roles within an Agile development team
Understand the various Agile development techniques
U d t d A il d l t lif l
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Understand an Agile development lifecycle
Understand the principles associated with an Agile
development approach
Be able to apply an Agile development approach to a
particular project scenario
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