Covering the two words that dominate the Information Technology (IT) landscape - STEM/STEAM and AGILE. If you are a student, an up-and-coming, a professional or future practitioner: STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art/Design and Math) is the glob
Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman shares insights on the pitfalls, anti-patterns, and missteps of being/doing/going Agile. Check Out The Agile Angst Newsletter - https://conta.cc/3kdc9Rx
Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman share insights on How long does it take realistically to convert from Waterfall to Agile? Also check out our Agile Angst - Ask the Agile Coach On Call - https://conta.cc/3kdc9Rx
Gherkin approach is a great way to test acceptance criteria and a pre-cursor to the acceptance test and automated test scripts but not a replacement for acceptance criteria. About the host: Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline007/
This episode @jacqueline007 Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman talks about other Backlog Work Items, besides just user stories. Also Check out our Agile Angst - Ask the Agile Coach On Call Newsletter - https://conta.cc/3kdc9Rx
This episode covers Scrum; the roles, the artifacts, ceremonies, and rules.
The 4 Ceremonies You Always hear about - Daily Stand Up - Sprint Review - Sprint Planning - Sprint Retrospective Are reinforced by 2 Additional Ceremonies - Backlog Refinement (Taking Raw stories and doing the prework and research to get them ready for your planning ceremony) - Scrum of Scrum (Cross Team Coordination of Shared Services) Seeing these as ceremonies will help insure you do them on a regular cadence and on a consistent basis.
This episode covers the Agile Manifesto and is a review of it to keep us fresh on its terms and ideas.
Agile = Agility + Flexibility + Predictability. Our world is forcing every industry, every business (small and large) to be more agile, flexible and to be able to pivot often. In some cases, business and teams have to look at their capacity on a day-by-day basis to determine their goals for the day. In the IT industry, we've seen the rate of change get faster and faster with each innovation and new technology. As one who has studied the evolution and rapid transition, I want to share my 15 years of lesson learned about process improvement, frameworks and guidelines. Even though we know rigid frameworks don't work in a rapidly changing environment, it doesn't mean we can resort to managed or unmanaged chaos.
This episode covers how to run a story run workshop.
This episode covers who's wring the user story or who should be wring it.
This episode covers "So That" Statements or Purpose Statements or the Why. The question that should be asked is so what if we don't do this story what will we be lacking.
Using Business Value Points (BVP) for User Stories to help define scope, help prioritize and make planning smoother. BVP can use the same framework as Story Points (i.e. a modified Fibonacci Sequence). For example: BVP 13 - Will provide a definite and significant tangible ROI (increase revenue, transactions, generate repeat customers) or is a Compliance Item which will result in Penalties if not done (Loss of Revenue) BVP 8 - Will provide some ROI (either a small - medium or is purely speculative) BVP 5 - Is Necessary Cost of Doing Business but no Significant ROI BVP 3 - Definitely will Delight the Customer but Low ROI BVP 1 - Nice to Have; May Delight the Customer but Little to No ROI
Learn the purpose and intent of Acceptance Criteria. Get tips on how to separate and keep your Acceptance Criteria from being: (a) a list of tasks (b) too technical (c) a test script And find out if the Gherkin Method (Given, When, Then) is right for your teams.
Hear about my journey for the last 30 years and my quest to understand the best way to healthy, sustainable approaches to software development. And how I help empower each of my clients to create a relentless, continuous improvement strategy. Also connect with me on Linkedin. I would love to know if you've listened to one of our episodes and if it's helped you. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline007/
The team, along with the product owner and scrum master, needs to make sure you are keeping all forms of debt at bay. Technical debt is only one type of debt that you can accumulate as a part of product, service or software delivery but there are others that you need to keep your eye on including: documentation debt, compliance debt, code debt, infrastructure debt, architectural debt, people debt and others. Listen to today's podcast for more insight.
Technical Debt is the accumulation of what is known as enabler and technical stories. It's when you've built the features and not the backend processing, business rules, data and non-functional mechanics that make a story or MVP potentially shippable. Technical debt can be intentional but you can jeopardize your agility when you unintentionally delay it until the end of the development cycle when it's very close to the time you wish to ship. Listen to today's podcast and learn more.
Understand why your backlog should be Colorful (colored stickies), Circular (Later, Next, Now) , Prioritized, Balanced and Include Administrative Work Items (i.e. training, documentation, refactoring).
A technical story is one where the main stakeholders are the engineering/infrastructure team/leadership. The end-user benefits only indirectly from such a story. Technical stories often are non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements include security, performance, maintainability, usability, refactoring, infrastructure,accessibility, compliance, reusability. (Look up Non-Functional Requirements). https://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2013/11/10/technical-user-stories-what-when-and-how
This episode explores Acceptance Criteria which are not exactly the same as traditional requirements, but the more you know about traditional requirements the more you can use some of the same techniques for reconciling what's missing. Traditional Requirements are lengthy word documents vs Agile Requirements which are informal conversations and white board notes (Chalk Talk)! In the virtual world tools like Miro are what you use for white board sessions.
Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #24, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing them VERTICALLY (not Horizontally - also discussed in Episode #22). The main elements you capture in the Acceptance Criteria: 1. Data Elements and Data Requirements (To Login the Data Required: Name, PIN Number, Accounter Number Optional: Location, Language Preference) 2. Business Rules (Happy Path: User enters a valid password; Negative Path: User enters an invalid password; The system times out before a password is entered) 3. Process Flow and Process Steps (1. Log into the account 2. Make a Deposit 3. Check the Balance 4. Make a Withdrawal)
Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #23, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing them VERTICALLY (not Horizontally - also discussed in Episode #22). The main elements you capture in the Acceptance Criteria: 1. Data Elements and Data Requirements (To Login the Data Required: Name, PIN Number, Accounter Number Optional: Location, Language Preference) 2. Business Rules (Happy Path: User enters a valid password; Negative Path: User enters an invalid password; The system times out before a password is entered) 3. Process Flow and Process Steps (1. Log into the account 2. Make a Deposit 3. Check the Balance 4. Make a Withdrawal)
Topics Covered: The right and wrong way to split stories in order to make the story small and to build the solution in increments; How you split stories to take the team in a direction that creates silos and scrum waterfalls (also known as scrumfalls). The size of your stories is the root cause of endless carryover. Carryover undermines the credibility, predictability, and accountability of the team and erodes trust. It's kind of a big deal!
The fist of five is a tool to Build ConsensusCan be used for all Agile CeremoniesMake Introverted Team Members ComfortableGives everyone equal voting rightsOpens up dialogueCan determine if a conversation needs to be brought to a voteFist of Five Rules 5 Fingers - Completely Agree/ I will Champion Things4 Fingers - Agree (Not Comfortable Championing It)3 Fingers - Fully Support the Outcome2 Fingers - Minor Questions/Concerns1 Finger - Significant Questions and Alternate Suggestion (that hasn't already been discussed) FIST - Have clear evidence / concrete data why the solution will not work (Back to the Drawing board)
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Which is Better for Your Brain Coffee or Tea? eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message (technologyexpresso@gmail.com) and share if you are right brain and left brain dominate and how that impacts your goals in 2018! 2018 turning up - we are turning STEM talk into STEAM in Action. The A now stands for art plus action - how do you express your right and left brain? Contact us at: technologyexpresso@gmail.com technologyexpresso.com technologyexpresso.net technologyexpresso.info technologyexpresso.store technologyexpresso.shop (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870
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2018 turning up - we are turning STEM talk into STEAM in Action. The A now stands for art plus action - how do you express your right and left brain? 2018 Program Preview - the Artification of STEM - think like an artist to create thought leaders, innovators and inventors! Art in Action - The Art of Agile Leadership - Recommended Reading MUST READ Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty Tribal Leadership, David Logan The Radical Leap, Steve Farber Leading Teams, J. Richard Hackman Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Smart Tribes, Christine Comaford Good to Great , Jim Collins Great by Choice, Jim Collins Switch, Chip and Dan Heath Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo The Toyota Way to Learn Leadership, Jeffrey Liker Joy Inc , Richard Sheridan STEAM A.C.T.I.O.N. Network #Stomp4STEAM A is for Agile C is for Conceptual T is for Techniques I is for Inquiry O is for Observation N is for New-Thinking S.T.E.A.M 2018. creates ACTION Agility - Concepts - Techniques - Inquiry - Observation -New Thinking ..or... Agile Conceptual Techniques Inquiry Observation New-Thinking Contact us at: technologyexpresso@gmail.com technologyexpresso.com technologyexpresso.net technologyexpresso.info technologyexpresso.store technologyexpresso.shop (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870
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To help projects and departments set realistic expectations about agile, I find that the popular HGTV and DYI series, are full of examples of what's realistic and what make sense when doing projects and building solutions. The same lessons that apply to building a house apply to building software. Join me and ever be a part of the conversation during our LIVE episodes. A is for Agile - Agility C is for Conceptualization T is for Techniques and Thinking Tools I is for Inquiry and Investigation O is for Observation N is for New-Thinking Every day Agile & Uncommon Common Sense Series featuring 20+ year software implementation veteran Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman and David Blackman. Agile Recommended Reading MUST READ Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty Tribal Leadership, David Logan The Radical Leap, Steve Farber Leading Teams, J. Richard Hackman Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Smart Tribes, Christine Comaford Good to Great , Jim Collins Great by Choice, Jim Collins Switch, Chip and Dan Heath Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo The Toyota Way to Learn Leadership, Jeffrey Liker Joy Inc , Richard Sheridan
To help projects and departments set realistic expectations about agile, I find that the popular HGTV and DYI series, are full of examples of what's realistic and what make sense when doing projects and building solutions. The same lessons that apply to building a house apply to building software. Join me and ever be a part of the conversation during our LIVE episodes. Every day Agile & Uncommon Common Sense Series featuring 20+ year software implementation veteran Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman and David Blackman. Agile Recommended Reading MUST READ Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty Tribal Leadership, David Logan The Radical Leap, Steve Farber Leading Teams, J. Richard Hackman Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Smart Tribes, Christine Comaford Good to Great , Jim Collins Great by Choice, Jim Collins Switch, Chip and Dan Heath Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo The Toyota Way to Learn Leadership, Jeffrey Liker Joy Inc , Richard Sheridan
To help projects and departments set realistic expectations about agile, I find that the popular HGTV and DYI series, are full of examples of what's realistic and what make sense when doing projects and building solutions. The same lessons that apply to building a house apply to building software. Join me and ever be a part of the conversation during our LIVE episodes. Every day Agile & Uncommon Common Sense Series featuring 20+ year software implementation veteran Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman and David Blackman. Agile Recommended Reading MUST READ Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty Tribal Leadership, David Logan The Radical Leap, Steve Farber Leading Teams, J. Richard Hackman Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Smart Tribes, Christine Comaford Good to Great , Jim Collins Great by Choice, Jim Collins Switch, Chip and Dan Heath Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo The Toyota Way to Learn Leadership, Jeffrey Liker Joy Inc , Richard Sheridan Sorces info: http://v4.scaledagileframework.com/program-portfolio-management/ technologyexpresso@gmail.com
To help projects and departments set realistic expectations about agile, I find that the popular HGTV and DYI series, are full of examples of what's realistic and what make sense when doing projects and building solutions. The same lessons that apply to building a house apply to building software. Join me and ever be a part of the conversation during our LIVE episodes. Every day Agile & Uncommon Common Sense Series featuring 20+ year software implementation veteran Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman and David Blackman. Agile Recommended Reading MUST READ Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty Tribal Leadership, David Logan The Radical Leap, Steve Farber Leading Teams, J. Richard Hackman Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Smart Tribes, Christine Comaford Good to Great , Jim Collins Great by Choice, Jim Collins Switch, Chip and Dan Heath Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo The Toyota Way to Learn Leadership, Jeffrey Liker Joy Inc , Richard Sheridan Sorces info: www.prettyagile.com
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