Sprint 3: More Agile and Lean

• M. Cohn “Succeeding with Agile”, chapters 10-13
• J. Rasmusson “The Agile Samurai”, chapters 3-5

• From requirements to User stories
• Lean Value
• Lean QFD
• Lean VSM
• Lean VSM continued
• Lean quing
• Lean standards
• Lean Test
• Lean Principles
• Scrum/FDD/Crystal
• XP/DSDM
• DAD

Agile Transitioning, developers’ opinions [Laanti et al. 2011] Maarit Laanti, Outi Salo, Pekka Abrahamsson: Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation. Information \& Software Technology 53(3): 276-290 (2011).

Agile Transitioning, success and failure factors [Chow \& Cao 2008] T. Chow, DB Cao, A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects, Journal of Systems and Software 81 (2008) 961–971.

Pair Programming, Evidence on [diBella et al. 2013] Enrico di Bella, Ilenia Fronza, Nattakarn Phaphoom, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, Jelena Vlasenko: Pair Programming and Software Defects-A Large, Industrial Case Study. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 39(7): 930-953 (2013).

Stress and Wellbeing [Laanti 2013] M. Laanti, 2013 Agile and Wellbeing — Stress, Empowerment, and Performance in Scrum and Kanban Teams in Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2013.

Based on what you have learnt in this sprint, update your Agile/Lean backlog accordingly. Specifically;

• Revisit the order of the course sprints. Are there any sprints you would like to do sooner or later?
• What can you take with you from this sprint into your own organisation?
• What do you need to learn more about?

Add and move items in your Agile/Lean backlog according to your needs and priorities.

You have completed this learning outcome when you have:

• Gained a deeper understaning Lean Software Development and of some of the tools and techniques available.

Review Questions

• Why use “User stories” instead of a traditional requirement set up ?
• Are you using “User stories” in your operation ?
• In what way are you using them today ?
• How would you say that “User stories” help your operation ?
• Lean has some principles, how do your operation comply to these ?
• Both Agile & Lean have high priority on the “Value” delivered, how would you say that your operation comply to this ?
• Can you see what gives most value for your operation today ?
• What would it mean if you took another method and used that instead of what you are using today ?
• How will the waste change ?
• How will the value change ?
• How would the efficiency change ?