Balloons
Are
Like
Features
we
Want
to
Develop
in
world
Agile
Arathi.G
Quality Head
Ricoh Innovations
[email protected]
To The
‘Agile’
World
 Understand Agile Fundamentals – Through a ‘Game’
 The Agile Manifesto Principles
Being agile needs a ‘shift’ in thinking..
Thinking…
A quick Video…
‘The Tree’ – Tum Chalo
Roles are not positions awarded, but come with a sense of responsibility to execute the given job as expected to the Role
One person can play multiple roles
Portfolio Management
Small Agile Team
Even if I
Don’t know what
I want. This team
does!
Large Agile Team
I Have
Process
ownership
Program Management
I Have
Product
ownership
Scrum Coach
Team Lead
Agile PM
Project Management
Customer/
User
Integrators
We Have
Ownership
Of How to do
Product
Owner
Working
Product
Product Management
Independent
Testers
Scrum Team
Stakeholders
Team
Members
Subject
Matter
Experts
PPQA Team
Systems Architects
CM Team
Small Agile Team Responsibilities
Tangible To Project Responsibilities
Scrum Coach: (Influence, Protect from impediments)
 Conduct Scrum Meetings
 Sprint Planning & Tracking
 Report Project Status
 Mentor, Motivator, Team Facilitator,
 Practice Implementation for Repeatability,
 Impediments Management
Agile PM/Lead:
 Set up the environment for product development
 Aid the Scrum Master in removing impediments
 Facilitating the Team to be able to function on ‘Core work’
Intangible To Project Responsibilities
Stakeholders
 Driven by ‘Dependencies’ in the ADIPs document.
 Anyone who is a Management, auditors,
program/portfolio manager,
 Support teams- Training, Procurement, Subject
Matter Experts - SMEs
 Practices Champion-PC
 Configuration Manager Champion-CMC
Team Members: (Builds the product iteratively)
 Understand User stories
 Provide estimates for User stories(Feature Points)
 Define ‘Work Values’ in terms of <As a.., Want to.., Testcase>
 Evaluate architecture for POC
 Design, Code, Review, Unit test, Test, Integrate, Debug, Release
 Document user manuals if part of the product plan.
Product Owner: (Gives What to do)
 Visualize, Define & Maintain Product Backlog,
 Responsible for Prioritized User Stories/Work Items.
 Resolve Team's doubts for user stories
 Stakeholder representation, interaction & Buy-In
 Represents: End Users, Subject Matter Experts, Sponsor
Tester & Integrator
 -Understand User Stories
 -Create and Maintain Test Cases
 - Test Case Review, & execution, automation
 - Test data creation, testing & reporting status
 - Practice health Status Reporting
Configuration Management Champion-CMC
 -Conducts Configuration Item listing, Controlling & Auditing of CIs
Practices Champion-PC
 - Facilitates & Conducts Step back reflections on Waves
If you play this game,
you will end up
understanding how to
apply Agile in software
projects.
• Everyone Gets the same set of..
• Balloons
• Thread
• Scissor
• 3 Chart Papers
• Tape
• Each team can have upto 10 people
• Build a Tower – in 15 Minutes
• Reflect
• Build a Tower again – 10 Minutes
• Present your experience
• Understand fundamentals
• That’s an agile world!!!
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Build a Tower of Balloons by using the provided materials – 15 Min.
Get self organized
No additional material will be provided
Wait for the Judges to come and Rate your Tower on the agreed Criteria.
Gather as a Team and conduct a ‘Reflection Meeting’ – 5 Min.
• What went well
• What to Stop
• What to Improve
• Build a Tower of Balloons – 10 Min.
• This time apply the learning from the reflection meeting.
• Make a chart ‘Learnt from the first time’ and implemented – 5 Min.
• Wait for the Judges to come and rate your Tower of Balloon on the agreed criteria.
• Present The Chart to the Judges -5 Min.
Wait for the Judges to ‘Declare’ the BEST TOWER & Win Prizes!!!
Definition : To build the Tower of Balloons
“As a Child Spectator, I want to see the Highest
Tower of Balloons so that the children that I bring
in an hour later are marveled”
Definition Of Done [Criteria for The Judges]:
• The Tower must tolerate “aerial blows 3 times” from the
judges
• It must be stable and not wobble
• If wobbles, not more than 80 degrees
• It must be pleasing to the eyes
• A color theme will be preferable
• Each Balloon to be well blown
• Only full blown balloons will be accepted in the Tower
The Team that scores maximum Gems Wins!!
• The Tower must tolerate any aerial blows – 30
seconds 3 times – 30 Gems
• It must be stable and not wobble – 50 Gems
• If wobbles, within 80% - 20 Gems
• It must be pleasing to the eyes – 50 Gems
• Each ‘accepted’ balloon earns -10 Gems
• A color theme will be preferable -50 Gems
= Features
= User Story
Attempts = Iterations
= Features
= User Story
Fibonacci series
Scale Example
Attempts = Iterations
IID
= Ideal Iteration Day
Articulation To build a
Tower Examples..
Iteration Planning Tasts
Size
Sort the Balloons
As a <Designer> I want to <Sort the balloon by
colors> so that I create a <Pleasing Theme
3
Blow the balloons
As a <Blower> I want to <Blow the balloon > so
that it looks closest to the <Modelled Ideal
Balloon> & last longer for the day
3
String each balloon
..
2
Tie the Balloons
..
4
Arrange the balloons
..
5
Build the balloons
..
4
Total Size
Team
= User Story
Attempts = Iterations
IID = Ideal Iteration Day
Articulate to blow a
Balloon [User Story]
Iteration Metric
Unit
# of Blows to fill one
Balloon ‘Planned’
Planned Velocity [How quickly you can 12
complete a user story]
Blows/Minute
Agile
Unit
12 Story
Points/IID
# of Blows taken to fill one Actual Velocity
Balloon ‘Actual’
18
Blows/Minute
18 Story
Points/IID
# Balloons Blown
35
35
# of Stories Planned [How many user
stories can we take in an iteration]
# Balloons accepted
# of Stories Accepted
22
22
% of Balloons accepted
% Stories accepted
[22/35] %
[22/35] %
# Self test Instances
# test cases [How do we test our
product]
# Instances executed
# test cases executed
%
%
# Defects @ balloon level,
in the tower
Defect Density/Total Story Points
in an iteration
Def/Tower
Def/Total
Story
 Product Grooming
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 Iteration Planning
Contains a list of all requested/required functionality for
the product, release and sprint respectively. Product
Owner/Manager responsible for the backlog
management and maintenance.
 Product Backlog Master
 Release Backlog Master
 Wave Backlog Master
The whole project gets divided into
Waves/Iterations usually 2 to 4 weeks duration
each. Waves have fixed duration to enable
regular deliveries and helps development teams
to focus on a shippable product in the end of
each sprint
 Product Demo
 Stand Up Meetings
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Frequent time boxed meetings where team
members answer the following questions:
 What I did yesterday?
 What Issues did I face?
 What I plan to do today?
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The Working software is presented to the
Product owner by the entire team
Product owner provides feedback on a scale of
1=5, 1=Poor, 2=Fair, 3=Good, 4=Excellent,
5=Amazing.
The feedback parameters are defined as
‘Definition of done’ during iteration Planning
 Reflections
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Intention is to improve development process by
introducing new practices, changing existing
practices, etc by answering 3 Questions
What to ‘Start’, ‘Stop’ and ‘Improve’
Team will conduct a Nominal Group Technique
and select items to implement in next Iteration
Back to
Agile Landscape
 Product Grooming

Contains a list of all requested/required functionality for
the product, release and sprint respectively. Product
Owner/Manager responsible for the backlog
management and maintenance.
 Product Backlog Master
 Release Backlog Master
 Wave Backlog Master
 Game Analogy - Product Grooming
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The discussions you had on detailing how the ‘Tower Of
Balloon’ should be built
The list of ‘Probabilities’ on how it could be built
The extent of ‘Details’ discussed on each possible way
The meeting you conduct as a self
organized team to understand ‘How to
build the Tower of Balloon’
Back to
Agile Landscape
 Iteration Planning
 Game Analogy – Iteration Planning
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The ‘Items’ you decided to do in the ‘First Attempt’ of building
the Tower
‘Estimating the Size’ using a ‘Scale Guide’
Delinking ‘Effort’ with ‘Size’ during estimating
‘Detailing the Tasks’ involved in ‘Building the Tower’
Agreeing ‘What will be the Definition of Done’ to ‘Accept’ the
Tower [This was given]
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The whole project gets divided into
Waves/Iterations usually 2 to 4 weeks duration
each. Waves have fixed duration to enable
regular deliveries and helps development teams
to focus on a shippable product in the end of
each sprint
The meeting you conduct to Size the Work,
Schedule it, agree tasks and Definition of
done.
Back to
Agile Landscape
 Stand Up Meetings

Frequent time boxed meetings where team
members answer the following questions:
 What I did yesterday?
 What Issues did I face?
 What I plan to do today?
 Game Analogy
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The Frequent discussions you had spontaneously
asking .. The likes of
“How many balloons have u blown”..
“What else can I do”..
“Do you want my help”..
“This didn’t work, let try the other way”..
The meeting you conduct often to see if
tasks taken by people are completed,
pending. Also discuss any unplanned
issues that came up
Issues like :
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The balloons burst
Could not blow all to the same size
The balloons don’t stand still..
Some good blowers are assigned to do
something else in the team
Back to
Agile Landscape
 Game Analogy
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The Judges who came to ‘Apply’ the ‘Definition
Of Done’ on the Built Towers
 The Wind Blows
 The Balloons Blown Quality
 The Height of Tower
 The Wobbling Effect
 Product Demo
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The Working software is presented to the
Product owner by the entire team
Product owner provides feedback on a scale of
1=5, 1=Poor, 2=Fair, 3=Good, 4=Excellent,
5=Amazing.
The feedback parameters are defined as
‘Definition of done’ during iteration Planning
The instance where ‘Product Owner’
see the working product based on their
given Definition Of Done, and make
decisions on ‘acceptance’
Back to
Agile Landscape
 Game Analogy:
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You having a Dedicated meeting with the ‘Post It
Notes’ on..
 What to Stop Doing in the next attempt
 What to Start Doing in the next attempt
 What to ‘Improve’ further in the next
attempt
 Reflections
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Intention is to improve development process by
introducing new practices, changing existing
practices, etc by answering 3 Questions
What to ‘Start’, ‘Stop’ and ‘Improve’
Team will conduct a Nominal Group Technique
and select items to implement in next Iteration
The meeting you conduct after the first
round to brainstorm..
• What went well
• What didn’t
• What can get better
Back to
Agile Landscape
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the
customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even
late in development. Agile processes harness
change for the customer’
competitive advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from
a couple of weeks to a couple of months,
with a preference to the shorter
timescale.
4. Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the project..
5. Build projects around motivated
individuals. Give them the environment and
support they need, and trust them to get the
job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face
conversation.
7. Working software is the primary measure
of progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable
development. The sponsors, developers, and
users should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
9. Continuous attention to technical
excellence and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity–the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done–is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements,
and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on
how to become more effective, then tunes
and adjusts its behavior accordingly.