Tools of the Lean Trade

Yair FlickerJuly 24, 2012

Context

•What I do: SmartLogic

•You have a backlog of features to build

•What’s the best way to build them?

Answer

•The minimal amount of process to enable:

•Developers to deliver features

•Product Owners to create and then accept/reject features

•Expectations to be clear and to be met

How we do it: Tools

•Use Best-of-Breed Tools:

•Pivotal Tracker

•GitHub

•Campfire

•Skype / facetime / gchat

Tools: Pivotal Tracker

Tools: GitHub

Tools: CampfireCOMMUNICATE ALL THE TIME!!!

How we do it: Process

Just enough process

Takeaways

1. “No process” is a terrible process

2.KISS—Keep it simple, stupid!

3.Do what works for your team; fail and fix rapidly; experiment

4.Product owner accepts features

5.Communicate all the time

Thanks

•Q&A

•I’m Yair Flicker—find me at http://hiya.ir/

•@smartlogic

•http://fb.me/smartlogic