Running agile on a non-agile environment
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Nuno Caneco shares his experience running an agile project under a waterfall contract. He outlines how the team used agile practices internally while maintaining a waterfall facade for the customer. This included prioritizing epics, 2-week sprints, daily standups, and sprint demos. While allowing internal flexibility, the team kept the fixed scope and timeline communicated to the customer. Key lessons included management support for the hybrid approach and using kanban for stability sprints to address issues quickly. The facade approach allowed agile benefits while meeting contractual obligations.
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Running agile on a non-agile environment
- 1. Running Agile on a non-agile Environment Nuno Caneco - 2017/01/12
- 2. Bio Nuno Caneco Software Engineer for 13+ years Scrum Practitioner since 2008 Scrum Master since 2009 Leading Software Projects since 2006
- 3. Motivation Share the experience from executing a project using Agile under a Waterfall contract
- 4. How it started Fixed scope Fixed delivery date (based on high level estimations) Waterfall-based Project Management
- 5. Project Management Foundations Schedule Scope Budget Quality ResourcesRisk Contract Managed by Contractor (PM)
- 6. Agile & Contracts Schedule Scope Budget Quality ResourcesRisk Fixed Contract: Fixed Budget Fixed Scope Fixed Schedule Waterfall Project Management The Agile way: Flexible Scope Flexible Schedule Flexible Budget
- 7. Internal Agile - The Opportunity Using Agile would hopefully: Improve the flexibility within the Team Improve resource and time management Steady and frequent checkpoints Small and frequent victories
- 8. Façades SupplierCustomer Sponsor PM Sponsor PM / PO ScrumMaster TTTeam Waterfall AgileWaterfall & Agile
- 9. Combining Waterfall with Agile Requirements Design Implementation Verification Waterfall Façade Agile Façade Activities ● Close high level specs with Customer ● Epic Backlog ● Initial Product Backlog ● Refine Product Backlog ● Initial Mockups ● Sprint 0 - project structure and first lines of code ● Sprints ● Backlog Grooming ● Internal QA & Demos ● Acceptance tests with customer ● Bug fixes
- 11. Preparing the Backlogs Functional Specification ● Modules ○ Features User Acceptance Tests ● High level UAT (not that much detailed at this point) Waterfall Façade Agile Façade Epic Backlog Product Backlog UAT mapped to Acceptance Criteria
- 12. Epic Backlog Prioritizing Prioritize on Epics based on the following criteria: 1.Dependency to other Epics/Stories Foundational epics go first Epics that are dependencies to other epics go first 2.Risk & Impact High risk + High Impact Epics are likely to go first "Bread and butter" epics are likely to go last
- 13. At the End of Requirements Phase The Team had: A Functional Specification approved by the customer A high level UAT document approved by the customer and A detailed and prioritized Epic Backlog T-Shirt size estimation A Product Backlog with: Detailed functional description High level Acceptance Criteria
- 15. Invariants Setup the Team Front-end Engineers ; Back-end Engineers ; Lead Architect 2-week Sprints Starting on Monday ; Ending on Friday (by agreement with the Team) Recurring appointments on the agenda: Sprint Planning Daily meetings Sprint Demo Sprint Retrospective
- 16. Sprint Loop Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Sprint Planning [Team + SM] Backlog Grooming (Mid/long term) [SM + PO ; Team(optional)] Mock-ups & User Store detail grooming [PO + SM] Backlog Grooming (Sprint n+1) [Team + SM + PO] Sprint Demo [Team + SM + PO + PM] Sprint Retrospective [Team + SM] Sprint n
- 17. Sprint Planning Product Backlog Sprint Backlog Stories are split into Tasks Each Task: Gets estimated in hours (Estimation > 12h → Split the task) Is pre-assigned to a Team Member Tax Tasks: Backlog Grooming Daily meetings Sprint Demos ● Story ID ● Description ● Estimation [Story Points] ● Mock ups ● Task ID ● Story ID ● Task Type ● Description ● Assignee ● Estimation [h] ● Time tracking
- 18. Definition of Done Examples: Code on Source Control must compile and run by hitting F5 Tests must be implemented and passing Database project must be updated
- 19. And, then by Sprint #4... We need a working BETA version in 1 month!
- 20. Time to Adapt! Identify the user stories that become critical for the BETA Enter Kanban mode for 2 sprints to: a. Finish the features b. Install the system @ PROD Sprint #1 Sprint #2 Sprint #3 Sprint #4 Sprint #5 Sprint #6 Sprint #7 Sprint #8 (...) Scrum Scrum Scrum Scrum Scrum Kanban Kanban Scrum (...)
- 21. BETA went well
- 22. QA & Testing
- 23. Adding a QA to the Team At some point, we decided to bring in a QA into the team: Iterate towards the final UAT document Test the outcome of Previous Sprint according to UAT document Report bugs
- 24. QA loop Sprint n QA: Test fixed bugs QA: Run UAT tests on new storiesTeam: Fix issues reported by QA (within saved capacity) QA: Iterate on UAT document The QA Loop was integrated with the Team Loop
- 25. It was nice The bugs were found and fixed sooner!
- 26. Show me some numbers!
- 27. Some numbers 17x 2-week Sprints 5 software engineers (backend and frontend) 1 QA (non-permanent) ~210.000 lines of code From which 37.000 are tests (~12%)
- 28. Velocity, capacity and time
- 29. Lessons learned
- 30. Pros Guided and steady workflow Regular sense of completion at the end of each Sprint Quickly respond to change Pre-align epics to Sprints Waterfall Status Reports became really easy Just use the data from Sprint Demos
- 31. Cons A bit of Management overhead Map Scrum <--> Waterfall Higher allocation of QA Team Members Early allocation to the Project
- 32. Lessons Learned It's easier to run Internal Scrum if the Management buys the strategy And our Management did support this strategy Using Kanban for stability Sprints Improved the flexibility to fix issues and implement quick-but-needed features If properly aligned, the Waterfall artifacts can be mapped to/from Agile artifacts with minimal effort Technical Specification → Epic Backlog and Product Backlog
- 33. But most important Always remember that the customer did NOT buy Agile Keep the Façade Keep the fixed scope and time to the customer Allow some internal flexibility
- 34. Thank you