Who moved my Agile cheese?

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1 Who moved my Agile cheese? Jonathan Rasmusson

2 Adaptive planning Changing requirements Iterative development Test first User stories Continuous integration Unit testing Refactoring

3 What s not so fun

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5 Cheese moved twice Agile is always best Unit tests equal quality

6 Agile is best

7 Too much to do, not enough time Credit:

8 You make a list ToDo List What do I need to do to get ready for this date? Clean house Do dishes Get wine Vacuum Write poem Get handsome Wash car Get flowers Iron shirt Work out This alone makes you feel good

9 You size things up ToDo for date Shouldn t take more than a couple of hours! 1 hr ½ hr 2 hr ½ hr ½ hr 1 hr 1 hr ½ hr ½ hr ½ hr ~ 8 hrs Clean house Do dishes Get wine Vacuum Write poem Get handsome Wash car Get flowers Iron shirt Work out

10 Most You set some priorities important ToDo for date Dang! Too much to do. 1 hr ½ hr 2 hr ½ hr ½ hr 1 hr 1 hr ½ hr Clean house Do dishes Get wine Vacuum Write poem Get handsome Wash car Get flowers ½ hr ½ hr Iron shirt Work out Least important Out of scope

11 Start executing ToDo for date Ah! Didn t really need that shirt anyways. 1 hr ½ hr 2 hr ½ hr ½ hr 1 hr 1 hr ½ hr ½ hr ½ hr Clean house Do dishes Get wine Vacuum Write poem Get handsome Wash car Get flowers Iron shirt Work out This is what most people do...

12 Estimates Master story Agile planning 1 day 3 days 5 days 3 days 1 day... Create invoice Add user Print report Basic search Update trade days Prioritized User stories n Iterations

13 Agile is the best expectation setting framework I know for consistently producing software in an industrialized way.

14 Agile getting too complicated

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16 Agile planning right? Inception deck User stories Estimates Burn downs Retrospectives

17 It didn t work! Inception deck User stories Estimates Burn downs Retrospectives

18 ?

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20 Not all work is created equal

21 Book writing Work You are the boss (customer) There is no one telling you what to do You decide when it s good enough You decide when it is done It ceases to be work - and becomes something else

22 The work becomes art. Hint #1

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24 Abandon your idea as soon as a better one comes along pivot

25 Makes sense right? Got a bad idea? Just pivot!

26 Just one problem... What if you don t care what others think? What if you don t wan t to pivot.

27 Last thing this world needs is another book on agile. My good friend

28 We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. Steve Jobs

29 Speculative & Personal

30 Speculative ideas

31 Personal ideas

32 It s personal. Hint #2

33 Purpose

34 The purpose of a company If anything imaginable is possible, If there are no constraints whatever, what would be the nature of an ideal organization to... Dee Hock, Founder VISA Birth of the Chaordic Age

35 Autonomy Master Purpose There is a class of work that defies management

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37 There s a strong purpose. Hint #3

38 So when... The work becomes art It s highly personal, and There s a strong sense of purpose Formal methods

39 Unit tests = Quality

40 My first ios gig Unit tests TDD Continuous Integration Refactoring

41 The hypocrite Unit tests TDD Continuous Integration Refactoring It worked!

42 Not doing this one really bugged me Unit tests TDD Continuous Integration Refactoring

43 ?

44 The rational explanation Smaller screen size One language No legacy Very visual But that still didn t explain the reputation for quality.

45 #1 Reason why I believe ios developers build quality products without extensive suites of unit tests...

46 They care.

47 Out caring the competition Care about the art Care about the experience Care about the words Human interface guidelines They curate out bad apps They make is easy to care - it s expected

48 The ios Human Interface Guidelines

49 Care about art

50 Care about experience Focus on the primary task. Elevate content people care about. Make usage easy and obvious. Minimize effort required for user input. Be succinct Consider adding physicality and realism Delight people with stunning graphics

51 Care about words Avoid single-word titles that don t provide useful information. Title-style capitalization Write text that succinctly describes the situation and explains what people can do about it. Sentence-style capitalization

52 They just care very deeply about the quality of what they build.

53 What does this have to do with unit tests? (absolutely nothing)

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55 How I used to view unit tests and quality 25% 75% Everything else Unit tests

56 How I see the world now 2% 98% Everything else Unit tests

57 Note: I am not saying Unit tests are not important. Unit tests don t contribute to quality. ios developers don t need to unit test.

58 What I am saying: There is a lot more to quality than unit tests. There is a lot I can learn from this community in terms of quality. I still have a lot to learn in terms of building a quality product and experience. Don t judge (the Apple community)

59 Want better UX? Want higher quality? Want better customer service? Find people who care. (the rest will take care of itself)

60 The Point Whether you agree/disagree with these assertions I am making doesn t matter. What matters is...

61 Your cheese will move Never assume you ve got it all figured out. If it makes you uncomfortable that s good! It shows you care.

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64 Thank you