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

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


Andrea Tomasini

Agile Coach & [email protected]

@tumma72

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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


ALM

Suppor

ting

Busine

ss

Govern

ance

Tech

nolo

gyIn

tegr

atio

n


Develop

Value

Collab

ora

tion Self-organization

Agile

Antic

ipatio

n &

Adaptatio

n


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

ent

Colla

borati

onCompliance

Focu

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


Ove

rbur

den

(無理

: mur

i) do not overload your

People


Unnecessary Variations(斑: mura) keep the Flow

Even


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


Verif

y Idea

Improve it

Add Value

Read

y it

Done!

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

Build

Automation

Test Driven

Development

Planning PokerTask

Board

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?


Easy!

Insp

ection

Flo

w

Adap

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


ATM

Agile

...or Foes?


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


self-

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

ion


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

Tran

spar

ency

Analysis

Team

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

ur

Prod

uct

It’s Yo

ur

Busine

ss

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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