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MOHAMMAD NAFEES SHARIF BUTT

@mnsbutt

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Mohammad Nafees Sharif Butt• http://au.linkedin.com/in/mnsbutt• https://twitter.com/mnsbutt

Experience• 9+ years in SDLC & Project Management• ~5 years in Agile/Scrum/XP• Certified Scrum Professions (CSP)• PMI-ACP & PMP• CSSLP, TOGAF 9, ITIL v3 Foundation• OCP-JEE5WCD, SCJP

Director IT Services - Waseel ASP Ltd. Founder & Organizer - Riyadh Agile & Scrum

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AGILE MEAgenda

Problem Statement Symptoms Recommendations Questions & Answers

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AGILE MEProblem Statement

Market Trend• Lean Startups• Disruptive Innovation• Speakers/Talks today Forces at Work• Time To Market (TTM)• Lead Time• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)• Minimal Marketable Product (MMP)

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AGILE MEProblem Statement (cont’d)

Accrue Technical Debt Technical Debt Classification1

61 Technical Debt Quadrant by Martin Fowler, retrieved from http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

AGILE MEProblem Statement (cont’d)

Design Stamina Hypothesis2

72 Design Stamina Hypothesis by Martin Fowler, retrieved from http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DesignStaminaHypothesis.html

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AGILE MESymptoms

Not being able to demo a feature N+2 Sprints for UX Testing Sprints Lack of Confidence Lack of Trust

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AGILE MERecommendations

Definition of Done• Emphasis in Scrum Guide3

• Usable• Evolving

o Greenfield Productso Brownfield Products

• Aim higher• Retrofit

93 The official Scrum Guide by Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber, retrieved from http://www.scrumguides.org/

AGILE MERecommendations (cont’d)

Maturing Engineering Practices4

• Attention to Technical Excellence5

• Artificial Feature Slicing• Non Functional Requirements• Behaviour Driven Development• Test without UI• Screaming Architecture6

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4 Principles behind the Agile Manifesto, retrieved from http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

5 The Land that Scrum Forgot by Robert C. Martin at Norwegian Developers Conference 2011, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk

6 Architecture the Lost Years by Robert C. Martin at Ruby Midwest 2011 gathering , retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884

AGILE MERecommendations (cont’d)

Clean Architecture7

117 The Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin, retrieved from http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html

AGILE MERecommendations (cont’d)

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Simplicity --the art of maximizing the amount of work not done

-- is essential.

AGILE MEQuestions & Answers

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