Agile Up The Zambesi

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# Agile Up The Zambesi 
### Bringing Software Quality to the lost tribes of the Toowong Reach

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Christopher Biggs, .logo[Accelerando Consulting]
<br>@unixbigot .logo[@accelerando_au]
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# Prelude
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# Who am I?

## Christopher Biggs — .teal[@unixbigot] —  .logo[@accelerando_au]

* Brisbane, Australia
* Founder, .logo[Accelerando Consulting]
* 20+ years in IT as developer, architect, manager
* Accelerando is a "full service" consultancy - chips to cloud
* ***IoT, DevOps, Big Data***

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# Outline

* The Lost Tribes of the tin belt
* Startups and other exotic fauna
* Hanging on to the tiger's tail
* Improbable edifices in the jungle
* Pyramids to the stars

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# Intro
# Small teams
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# The lost tribes of the tin belt

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# Case study: seven coders in a shed

## Laissez-faire planning

* Spun off from a larger multi-team enterprise
* Stagnating
* UX (and everything else) left to developers
* It'll be done when it's done
* I think I had a demo here somewhere

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# Strategy

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#### Issue tracking

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#### Knowing what you want (a backlog)

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#### Nightly builds (seeing progress)

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#### A QA process

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#### Simplicity

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# Avoiding this pitfall

#### Everyone on the same page

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#### Set, and strive for goals

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#### Know what is the most important thing right now

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#### Recognise and focus on your strengths

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#### Be prepared to abandon sinking ships

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# Startups, and other exotic fauna

### The only thing that got you here was breakin' all the rules

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# Getting from startup to grown-up

#### Startups are processes for learning about their product

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#### The first goal is Survival

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#### Expect to build it all again, and maybe a third time

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#### When to make the phase change from experiment to business?

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#### Some things are worth doing well, once

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# Study B

## Third time lucky

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#### First attempt: Development house failed to deliver

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#### Second attempt: One true design, executed as an offshore snowflake

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#### Third time lucky: CI-first, rapidly iterable

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# Tips for navigating the startup journey

#### Show early

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#### Facilitate agility through preparation

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#### Four word project management

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#### Sincerity

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# Hanging on to the tigers tail

### Riding a growing startup through the growth spurt

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# Case study: We're all full stack here

#### You made the big time through hard work and gung-ho attitude

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#### But two-pizza tactics don't scale

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#### Specialisation, and new ideas are scary

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#### I'm from Bigcorp and I'm here to help

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# Strategy

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#### Lose some speed, to gain progress - QA, releases

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#### Bring in specialists

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#### Spread those skills

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#### Nurture your culture seeds

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#### Recognise that change is a process

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# Improbable Edifices in the Jungle

### Landing in the middle of a large, successful accident

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# Case study: We're certified

#### Excellence in one arena doesn't necessarily translate to another

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#### We're not allowed to do it that way

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#### That sounds risky

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#### What do you mean we're throwing it all out?

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# Strategy

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#### Show don't tell

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#### I thought you might like to know about...

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#### What I've seen work well in the past...

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#### Nobody else has a crystal ball, either

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# Pyramids to the stars

### Choosing tools to guide maturity

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# You'll love it once you stop screaming

#### You can't change everything at once
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#### What brings most value first?   Goals.
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#### Greasing the skids - CI and CD
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#### Seeing progress - standups and retros
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#### Punctuated equilibrium - backlogs and sprints
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# Bonus tools, bringing people together

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#### Trello (ratcheting up the scrumness)

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#### Slack (or similar)

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#### Hosted repositories (oh, look, a feature)

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#### Graduating from Trello

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# Traps for the unwary

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#### Over-planning

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#### Tool-worshipping cargo-cults

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#### The religion of the book

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# Accelerando: Six P

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# The "Six P" model
### (models P1-P5 were taken)

* .yellow[Problem] - I have identified something Wrong in the world
* .yellow[Proposal] - I intend to make the world a better place in this way
* .yellow[Players] - I understand the strategy of other entrants in the space
* .yellow[Proof-of-Concept] - I can demonstrate that a (better) solution is possible
* .yellow[Prototype] - I will test that **my** solution is attractive to the market
* .yellow[Product] - They like it.  Now I have to cater to a billion users

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# Tools to aid those ends

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#### An empty project is a CI pipeline and a domain name

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#### What's the smallest value-delivering increment

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#### Short iterations, fast feedback

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#### Visibility of progress

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# Coda

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* Small unstructured teams
* Startups and rapid growth
* Large teams in conservative enterprises
* Choosing appropriate tools for the environment
* The Accelerando Method
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# Resources, Questions

## Related talks - [http://christopher.biggs.id.au/#talks](http://christopher.biggs.id.au/#talks)

## Me - Christopher Biggs

- Twitter: .blue[@unixbigot]
- Email: .blue[christopher@biggs.id.au]
- Slides, and getting my advice: http://christopher.biggs.id.au/
- Accelerando Consulting - IoT, DevOps, Big Data - https://accelerando.com.au/

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Thanks for your time today, I'm happy to take questions in the few
moments remaining and I'm here all week if you want to have a longer
chat.   Over to you.