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How agile are you? 2

Learning Outcomes 3 1. Understand one facet of “why agile?” 2. Describe some mindset shifts for Business Analysts 3. Two agile analysis practices you can use tomorrow 4. An improved understanding of agile

winnipegagilist.blogspot.com Continuous Improvement Process Hacker Family Agile Helping others learn People First Application Architect Inclusive Models Problem Solving Coaching Test First Making change happen Lean 444 "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Practical Agility – Practice #1 Printing company -We will have a 3% discount for quantities over 1,000. And we will discount by 3% if they have more than 50 pages in the book. -Unless it’s a digital book. Then we will do a 2 % discount, which will jump to 3% if they have more than 1,000 quantity. Except in the case of more than 1,000 books and more than 50 pages, which is 4%. 7

Specification By Example 8 Book QuantityPagesTypeDiscount 1,00050Regular0.00% 1,00150Regular3.00% 1,00051Regular3.00% 1,00050Digital2.00% 1,00150Digital3.00% 1,00151Digital4.00% Regular books: 3% discount for quantities over 1,000 or over 50 pages Digital books: 2% discount. 3% if they have more than 1,000 quantity. 4% if they have more than 1000 and more than 50 pages.

Specification By Example – Attempt #2 User Story: As an employee I want to receive overtime pay For each week, hourly employees are paid: 9 a standard wage per hour for the first 40 hours worked 1.5 times their wage for each hour after the first 40 hours 2 times their wage for each hour worked on Sundays and holidays

(40 * $20) = $ a standard wage per hour for the first 40 hours worked

1.5 times their wage for each hour after the first 40 hours (40 * $20) + (5 * $20 * 1.5) = $ (40 * $20) + (5 * $20 * 1.5) = $950.00

2 times their wage for each hour worked on Sundays and holidays (40 * $20) + (8 * $20 * 1.5) + (8 * $20 * 2) = $1, (40 * $20) + (8 * $20 * 1.5) + (8 * $20 * 2) = $1,360.00

(40 * $20) + (8 * $20 * 1.5) + (8 * $20 * 2 ) = $1, (40 * $20) + (8 * $20 * 1.5) + (8 * $20 * 2 ) = $1, *1.5 2 times their wage for each hour worked on Sundays and holidays

Executable Specifications Credit: This example is from “The Role of Quality Assurance in Lean-Agile” – Allan Shalloway

Specification By Example - Conclusions 15 Great communication tool Great communication tool Focus on defect prevention Encourages good design Moves towards a test first strategy

Practical Agility – Practice #2 How do you typically gather requirements? What are the types of sessions and situations that you prefer? Take 3 minutes now and write down those ideas on stickies -One per stickie 16

Discussion versus Dialogue Dialogue – Hearing each others words to gain understanding or meaning -Hearing others -Free flowing Discussion – Searching for the answers by proposing, interrupting, jumping to conclusions -Making ourselves heard -Directed -Competitive 17

Silent Brainstorming Refers to the collaborative methods where ideas are created, gathered, organized, priorized, and voted on in silence. Benefits -Everyone has a voice -Early ideas do not prevent other contradictory ideas -Quick and efficient -No idea is too ‘out there’. Anonymity 18

User Story Review As a [Role] I want to do [Action] so that I get [Value] 19

Scenario We are going to build the new Facebook and Google+. We are going to come up with the requirements for the new application I’d like you to break up into teams of

Trial #1 Take 5 minutes and work as a team and collaboratively come up with User Stories. 21

Trial #2 Using Silent Brainstorming take the next 5 minutes and write down User Stories individually No talking at all. 22

Trial #3 Using Silent Brainstorming take the next 5 minutes and write down User Stories individually Each person will only write down one part of the story and then hand it off to the next person -One persons fills out the role -Next person fills out the action -Next person fills out the value -Start all over again No talking at all. 23

Retrospective How did that feel? How did the numbers compare? Any surprises? 24

Conclusions 25 Short Feedback Loops Mindset Shifts Specification By Example Silent Brainstorming

Prioritized Q & A What scares you the most about agile? OR What don’t you understand about agile? 26 More questions? Bornagainagilist.wordpress.com winnipegagilist.blogspot.com

Agile is a Direction Individuals and Processes and Interactions Tools 27 Working Comprehensive software documentation Customer Contract Collaboration Negotiation Responding Following to change a plan