1. Agile201 for Users Click / tap to move through the presentation.
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2. What are the key components of Agile201?
Welcome to Agile201
This introduction explains how to make the most of Agile201.
What is Agile201 for?
What are the key components of Agile201?
Here are some of the questions it can help you to answer:
How is Agile201 organised?
How can I tell you what else I need to know?
How can I find out more?

3. It gives you the complete Agile lifecycle. Right out of the box.
What is Agile201 for?
Agile is a naturally simple & lightweight route to delivery.
But just because it’s simple, that doesn’t make it easy.
Agile201 is unique.
It gives you the complete Agile lifecycle.
Right out of the box.
That’s what Agile201 is for: to make Agile as easy as it’s simple.
This presentation shows you how it does that – and how easy it is for you to work with Agile201.

4. How does Agile201 work?
Agile201 organises Agile as a whole into a 3-tiered system of nested processes: Product, Release & Iteration Management.
Product Management defines the strategic level of Agile delivery.
This is a permanent function.
It is designed to manage the product throughout its lifetime.
Every product passes through multiple phases of Release Management.
A release may deliver a new version of the product…
…or smaller updates, localisations, new markets, platforms, fixes, etc.
Each release is then divided into cycles of Iteration Management.
Which is when the planned changes are actually implemented.
And working software is delivered.
Then repeat for the lifetime of the product.
Iteration
Iteration
Iteration
Iteration
Working software
Release
Working software
Product
Working software
Working software

5. Navigating Agile201.com
Top-level menus cover every aspect of Agile delivery.
Agile201.com is an easily-learned, menu-driven website that provides rapid access to every aspect of Agile with just a few clicks or taps.
Drill down to the precise knowledge you need.

6. Navigating Agile201.com
That’ll take you to a page that looks something like this…
The complete end-to-end workflow
This is a standard ‘practice’ page. It has 5 basic parts…
A quick summary for experts
Comprehensive detail for newcomers
Full background to every task
Expert advice for success
Other pages have different structures, but we think they’re equally clear.

7. The Agile201 menu system
You’ll also find another menu at the top of each page, designed to make managing Agile201.com itself easy.
Talk to us directly.
We’re more than happy to deal with any issues or ideas you want to raise.
Facts.
Thoughts.
Opinions.
Cartoons!
Shortcuts to every page on Agile201.com.
The Agile201 team.
Real people.
Access to the Agile201 community.
Build your own teams & forums.
The usual legal stuff.
Terms of service, Privacy, Copyright, Distribution rights.
Dull but important – please read.
Quick answers to some of our most frequently posed questions.

8. The Agile menu
A good place to begin for a really solid background to Agile itself.
Agile’s ultimate ground rules.
The practices that makes Agile different.
The end-to-end delivery process.
The Agile201 interpretation of Agile.
What is the evidence?
How the experts make the most of Agile.
User guide to Agile concepts & language.

9. The Agile disciplines The practical foundations of an Agile culture.
Agile201 walks you through you them all.

10. Manage medium-term delivery – objectives, epics, plan, prepare.
The Agile201 menu system
The next 3 top-level menu items organise Agile into a sequence of nested processes – Product, Release & Iteration Management.
Control your team’s everyday work – schedule, implement, track, improve.
Direct the long-term future of your product – vision, strategy, backlog.
Manage medium-term delivery – objectives, epics, plan, prepare.
In other words…

11. The Product menu
Agile at its highest level – setting the overall vision, strategy, scope & plan for an integrated, multi-release programme of work as a whole.
Translating the product backlog into action.
What is a product? How does the product lifecycle work?
Setting & refining the product’s long-term goals.
Specifying what a successful product will look like.

12. The Release menu
The release- or project-level layer of Agile – the domain of the Agile team – is fundamental for creating the conditions for successful delivery.
Summary of the release management process, tasks & planning.
Setting the ground rules for delivery.
Selecting deliverables, mapping iterations, validating the plan.
Breaking major components into manageable elements.
Making sure we’re really ready to go.

13. The Iteration menu
The iteration is the core of the Agile team’s everyday work.
The Iteration menu provides detailed support at every step.

14. The Iteration menu
Where delivery happens – setting up, running, tracking & controlling the flow of work.
Selecting & scheduling the work to be done.
Summary of iteration management as a whole.
Tracking team effort.
Taking the pulse of delivery.
The daily cycle.
Optimising the iteration’s scope & aims.
Demonstrating the team’s achievements.
Reviewing & tuning the team’s ways of working.

15. The Stories menu
The story is the basic unit of Agile delivery, and Agile201 delivers a thorough approach to story creation & management.
Understanding what stories are – and what they aren’t – why they’re important & how they work.
How to capture & structure a story.
Investigating issues, problems & opportunities in delivery.
What will it take to deliver this story?

16. Core Team The People menu Governance Extended Team Extended Team
The heart of the Agile organisation is the Core Team. Get this right, and almost everything else flows naturally. Get it wrong, and almost nothing can be achieved.
Governance
Extended Team
Extended Team
Product Owner
And don’t underestimate how hard it is to align all these people!
Core Team
Iteration Lead
Developer
Developer
User
User
Developer

17. The People menu
More than almost any other methodology, Agile relies on people.
The People menu explains how Agile201’s approach helps Agile to achieve its impressive results.
How to set up your team.
Setting up critical relationships & dependencies
The core Agile roles.
Agile201 pays close attention to the users, whose role is especially difficult but absolutely vital to Agile.

18. The Tools menu
Agile has created or adopted dozens of innovative tools & techniques.
The Tools menu explains what they are and how to use them.
Which ones you need to pay special attention to depends on your role.
But everyone should be aware of where each tool & each technique fits into the overall lifecycle.

19. The Tools menu
This diagram shows the tools used in the Product & Release cycles.

20. The Tools menu
And this diagram shows the main places where each tool & technique is used within individual iterations.

21. We always welcome feedback.
Through the Agile201 Community & Forums.
Directly, using the feedback page on Agile201.com.
Or just us at:
This is probably quite enough to be getting on with!
But if there’s anything more you’d like from Agile201, please don’t hesitate to tell us.
It will go straight into the Agile201 backlog.

23. Rights & permissions:
You may distribute, use & edit this presentation as you see fit, except that you may not remove the Agile201 logos, copyright statements & other Agile201 identifiers.