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2013.09.05.TrackerWebinar

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• We're a software consultancy
• We specialize in helping your team with...

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Extreme

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Lean

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Agile

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• The big buzzwords in software & startup development
• The terms are all loaded, with lots of baggage

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one big loop

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• The key is taking a feedback loop, which tends to be like this

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lots of little loops

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• And make it like this -
• Lots of small loops
• help you make small corrections along the right path for your business

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JUST DO IT.

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• Which means you execute....

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Success

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Failure

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• Or your didn't,
• in which case you can make a correction

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That works for software?

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• Yes, with software
• All of the Agile/Lean/Extreme practices help this
• For example:

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TDD/CI

prevent regression

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Pairing

keep quality high

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Shared Ownership

keep bus count high

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User Stories

build for the business

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Short Iterations

plan small, plan often

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Always Be Shipping

improve product

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Retrospectives

improve team & process

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• How do you manage all of this?
• Day-to-day, milestone-to-milestone

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Our Process

From @ $7/month

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• 20 years of how to manage an Agile software team
• packaged into a web app
• Written and maintained by a team that works this way
• You're soaking in it

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Manages your prioritized list of work broken into fixed segments of time and predicts progress based on historical performance.

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• What does Pivotal Tracker do?
• Everything you want any project management app to do

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Manages your backlog of stories into iterations and predicts releases based on velocity.

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• only with some different nouns

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Simple tool

Continuous communication

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Let's take a look

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Stories

We have all 3 kinds

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• Back to User Stories
• Your Backlog is made up of them - what are they?

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Feature

Verifiable business value

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• Business value first

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Feature

"As a shopper I can add an item to my shopping cart so I can purchase it later."

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Chore

Needed, but no verifiable business value for customer

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• things your users won't notice, at least not directly
• examples:
  • add server monitoring
  • collapse Rails DB migrations
  • clean out logs

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Bug

Work that fixes a defect to a previously accepted Feature

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• NOT: it doesn't work as I expected - reject that story
• Something we agreed to that stopped working

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Workflow

Life of a story

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Backlog

Position is priority

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• DRAG AND DROP
• Devs should always be able to pull of the top story

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Velocity & Iterations

"Yesterday's Weather"

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Velocity

Volatility is the Enemy

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Release Markers

date is optional & helpful

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• Blue if you're going to make it
• Turn red when velocity says you're going to miss it
• Time to drop stories or move dates

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Labels

Tags FTW

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• easier to search for groups of stories
• semantics: "Blocked", "needs discussion", "needs design"

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Epics

Tracks, Themes

Ship-all-at-once

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• When a label needs more
• When multiple stories straddle release markers

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Tracker.Next

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Small Loops

Big Progress

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• This how we do it
• We want to teach you how

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Links!

• Extreme Programming Pocket Guide: http://amzn.to/1a9u7cM
• Pivotal Labs: http://pivotalabs.com
• Pivotal Blabs: http://pivotallabs.com/blabs
• Pivotal Tracker: http://pivotaltracker.com

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2013.09.05.GettingAgileWithPivotalTracker