Agility

Agile working incliudes:

• Working time

• Working location

• Job role

• Composition of the workforce

• Individuals and interactions over process and tools

• Functional products over extensive documentation

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiations

• Responding to change over following a plan

Waterfall working:

• (scheduled) problem-solving process within a rather closed system

Agile working:

• inter-play and continuous discovery of solutions and needs by various parties in an open system

• Sprint Components -> Plan, Build, Test, Review -> Potentially shippable Product

• Product owner:

  • Responsible for defining the features that are needed in the product

  • Has the bright ideas that turn into products

• Scrum Master:

  • Servant leader to the team resposible for protecting the team and the process running the meetings and keep keeping things going

• Developers:

  • Helps building the product

  • Works to get the product done

• Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, increment (module)

• Product Backlog:

  • This is where product owners create a prioritized list of features known as user stories that could go into the product -> evolves and chnages priority with every sprint

• Sprint Backlog:

  • Includes the highest prioritized user stories

  • Get estimated for size and are commited for the next sprint

• Ceremonies: Sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review

• Sprint planning:

  • Is where the product owner, sprint master and developer meet to dicuss the user stories and estimate their relative sizes

• Daily Scrum:

  • Brief standup meeting -> team discusses what they have completed since the previous meeting what they are working on and anything that might be blocked or need help

• Sprint Review and retrospective

  • Team demonstrates the completed work to the product owner and then the team discusses what they can do to improve the process going forward

5 Components/key elements:

• Visual signals (cards, stickies,…)

• Columns (represent a specific activity that together compose a workflow e.g. to do - in progress - done)

• Work-in-progress limit (WIP-limit)

• Commitment point (Work beigns)

• Delivery point (end of a kanban teams workfolw)

Challange for the introduction of agile working is the lavk of afile menatlity and insufficient kno-how.