Application Lifecycle Management and Agile, friends... or foes? (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)

ALM and Agile, friends... or foes?Can you really implement an Agile ALM system in your organization?

Andrea Tomasini

Agile Coach & Trainerandrea.tomasini@agile42.com

@tumma72

What’s happening to our Business?

Deepa Chandrasekaran, Gerard J. Tellis - Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1915 1939 1972 1976 1983 1994 1998 2000 2002 2004

13.5 years

3 months

Time to Market

Products more &

more complex

too slow tooexpen$ive too

complex

No more Mediocrity

Customers can change ...

... and they will!

Customers evaluate

our services

Customers influence other customers

Customers are in control of the business

Customer Capitalism

Some facts about ALM and Agile

Suppor

Busine

Govern

Develop

Collab

tion Self-organization

ipatio

Adaptatio

ALMAgile

To different approaches...

... to achieve the same goal?

Is Agile that simple?Let’s make sure we are talking about the same thing...

Pull principleIterative & Incremental

Empirical Process Control

Lean Thinking

Agile Reading Glasses

Empirical Process control vs Defined Process controlAgile is based on empirical control, through transparency, inspection and adaptation the best processes are emerging while doing, and only retrospectively it is possible to recognize successful adaptation from non successful ones

Defined Process Control Production-based process

Empirical Process Control R&D based process

Pull vs PushAgile approaches are based on pull principle which allows self-organizing teams to pull in work and knowledge as needed in order to deliver valuable quality software

PushPull

Individual TeamEnforcem

borati

onCompliance

s on value

Lean ThinkingLean Thinking inspired process improvement through constant observation of the unevenness in a flow, resources or people overburdening and elimination of wasteful activities

(無理

i) do not overload your

People

Unnecessary Variations(斑: mura) keep the Flow

Wasteful Activities(無駄: muda)

remove non value adding

Activities

Iterative & IncrementalDelivering a product in subsequent iterative releases, not only improves the explicit quality of it, it also allows everybody involved in its development as well as every stakeholder, to learn better what is really needed to support a business vision

y Idea

Improve it

Add Value

1 2 3 4 5

Iterative & Incremental0% 100%

Every Increment:✓is inspect-able✓adds value✓it’s high quality✓it’s ready to ship

What do opinion leaders think about Agile ALM?Let’s hear some opinion from market and thought leaders

“Agile and ALM c a n n o t e x i s t together, “agile” is concerned only with development practices, while A L M h a s a broader reach, from planning to coding, testing, and deployment”, Theresa Lanowitz - Voke analyst “ B u t a s a g i l e projects scale out t o d o z e n s o f developers and testers working at s e p a r a t e locations, ALM

t o o l s b e c o m e c r i t i c a l ” , C l i f f U t s t e i n - V P m a r k e t i n g AccuRev “Agile n e e d s A L M t o m e e t i t s o w n principles. You can’t do [things like] continuous integration and i n c r e m e n t a l software delivery on a large scale without tools” , G r i g g s - CollabNet“If you look at what ’s really happening, Agile ALM is the

embodiment of the set of best practices we have learned in 50 to 6 0 y e a r s o f a p p l i c a t i o n development," he s a i d . “ I t ’ s a natural evolution— t h e c u r r e n t thinking about h o w b e s t t o manage the life cycle.”, Charles Chu - Director P r o d u c t Management & S t r a t e g y, I B M Rational

“Agile and ALM cannot exist together, “agile” is concerned only with development practices, while ALM has a broader reach, from planning to coding, testing, and deployment”, Theresa Lanowitz - Voke analyst

“But as agile projects scale out to dozens of developers and testers working at separate locations, ALM tools become critical”, Cliff Utstein - VP marketing AccuRev

“Agile needs ALM to meet its own principles. You can’t do [things like] continuous integration and incremental software delivery on a large scale without tools”,Griggs - CollabNet

“If you look at what’s really happening, Agile ALM is the embodiment of the set of best practices we have learned in 50 to 60 years of application development," he said. “It’s a natural evolution—the current thinking about how best to manage the life cycle.”, Charles Chu - Director Product Management & Strategy, IBM Rational

Remember tools alone are not solving problems...

How many of you are using integrated

planning and portfolio management

solutions and still have problems

delivering on time and having stable

working plans?

Continuous Integration

Pairing

Automation

Test Driven

Development

Planning PokerTask

EmergentDesign

TestFirst!

How many adopted continuous integration tools but still do not do continuous integration?

How many adopted requirement management

tools but still do not have good requirements?

ection

tation

Face to face

communication

ALM Ag

ileFriends?

1. Common Goal: realize what the customers want2. End-to-end: from idea to delivery3. Transparency: information to support decision making

4. Improve performance: automation and adaptation

...or Foes?

1. Agile Teams change process at every iteration... sometimes radically... can tools do?

organi

zation

control2. Agile team are self managed, there is no hierarchy

3. Agile team might chose different tools to solve the same problem, as they better fit to the team skills

Killing a Bug?

PowerPrecis

4. Agile Teams to communicate constantly, possibly face-to-face

Analysis

Decision

5. Agile Teams seeks constantly powerful and simple tools to help their daily work in various disciplines

Simple?

Easy to use?

This is what matter most!

It’s Yo

Busine

It’s Your Customer

It’s Your People

Let the Team choose the tools

Encourage simple tools approach

Value is in the Product, not in how you build it!

Thank You!

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