Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development

Beyond Scrum

Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development

Copyright 2012 Perforce Software, Inc. - Assembla, Inc.

Randy DeFauw• Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce

• Certified Scrum Master (and member of an Agile marketing team)

Andy Singleton• CEO and Founder, Assembla

• Released over 20 online software and service products


Presenters

• Fast, scalable version control

• Available on over 50 platforms

• Version management for any team, any data, and any location

• Used by over 5,000 customers in software, gaming, multimedia, firmware, finance, and other industries


Perforce Software

• Cloud-based tools for distributed Agile development teams

– Agile planning

– Ticketing/task management

– Code management (SVN/Git/Perforce)

• Over 500,000 users in 100 countries

• Development team in 15 countries

• Now offering PERFORCE ON-DEMAND


Assembla

Small teams

Collocated

Narrowly scoped projects

Fixed release timesTeam Three

Team Two

Team One

?

Scrum of scrums

Scrum teams

Integration

Today’s Challenges• Big multi-platform projects• Distributed teams • Release frequently• On-demand apps and services


The Problem with Scrum

Change in Approach

Simpler?

• We will remove some “rituals,” making it easier to join projects, manage multiple teams, manage distributed teams, and get releases out

• Less emphasis on face-to-face team dynamics. Nice, but a luxury.

Tradeoff

• We will rely more heavily on technology

• Code management with code review and contribution becomes a core part of agile

New speed and scale is achievable

• Facebook releases 2 times per day. Android contributions from 1000’s.


Scalable Agile Process

Prioritize at BeginningNo iteration planNo resource constraints

Plan at end(Release when ready)


Advantages

• Continuous delivery

– Faster. Release when ready. Take the right duration, long or short

• Distributed and Dispersed teams

– No big meetings or requirement for mass consensus

• Scales to more contributors.

– No centralized iteration planning or testing.

– Include new contributors and many types of contributors

– Scrum compatible – Scrum teams can work as contributors with zero process change.


Building Blocks to Go Beyond Scrum

• Distributed Teams– Support contributors who are distributed in space, and in management

structure (scrum teams, hackers, outsourcers, partners)

• Continuous delivery– Code management and merge capabilities to review, test and merge

code from many contributors, quickly and reliably

• On-Demand Infrastructure– Unlimited, on-demand test environments and continuous integration to

build and test any change


Tasks and Tools for Distributed Teams


Collaboration for Continuous Delivery

Continuous Flow of Tasks

Stay up to date on all changes: Activity stream

The entire set of teams must function as a single team with one global build repository, one tracking and reporting tool, and daily meetings across geographies.

- Jeff Sutherland, The Scrum Papers


Global Perforce Architecture

Why did the case study for distributed Agile choose Perforce?

Steps to Continuous Delivery


Idealized Scrum Sprint


Idealized Kanban Process


Idealized ScrumBan Release


Testing Iterative Releases


The Secret of Continuous Delivery

Assembla Merge Request


Intuitive workflow

Merge notifications

Fast context switching

Visual tools


Perforce Merge

The right data

Dynamic adjustments

On demand


Complex Component Models

Build and Test On-Demand


Build and Test Each Change


Automatic merge to 50+ locations

Ensure visibility and transparency

Has the bug fix reached the customer version yet? Have you patched all the consumers of the module?

Complex Feature Matrix


• Over 100,000 customers rely on Salesforce for 10 billion transactions per month

• Salesforce relies on ‘Extreme’ Agile development: 125+ scrum teams and 90,000+ automated tests

• ‘Extreme Agile’ relies on Perforce

Proxy

• Avoids data transfer cost

• 75% savings in data transfer time

Build Replica

• Avoids data transfer and read-only operations

• 95% savings in data transfer

• 88% savings in release note reporting

Smart Replica

• Avoids data transfer and read-only operations, allows writes to shared service

• Purely local read-only activity plus seamless write operations

Heavy Artillery


Result: Faster Velocity

Salesforce.com Assembla


Next Steps

• Scrumban

• Continuous Integration


• On-demand build and test systems• Continuous delivery dial

Dev

Business

Ops

DEV TEST UAT PROD

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY RELEASE TRAIN

Self-Service Controlled

INTEG STAGING

Continuous Delivery Dial


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