Escaping the matrix
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NelKinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. emphasizes the importance of adapting software development to meet evolving user needs through an automated pipeline and agile methodologies. The document discusses concepts such as the dual values of software, team dynamics, and the impact of matrix organizations on agile projects. It also highlights the risks of miscommunication and insufficient collaboration within teams, which can hinder effective software delivery.
Escaping the matrix
- 1. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Escaping the Matrix
- 2. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Pipeline Test and Production Code ⇒ Executable Development Understand emerging requirements ⇒ Acceptance Criteria Ideation Requires needs and ideas turned into valuable features Users / Operations Build, Verification, Deployment ⇒ Automated Pipeline
- 3. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Two Agile Key Questions ● Are we doing the right thing? ● Are we doing the thing right? How to answer these questions? Feedback!
- 4. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd.
- 5. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. The Two Values of Software “The Secondary Value of Software is its behavior: That it does what the current users currently need without any bugs, crashes or delays.” — Robert “Uncle Bob” C. Martin ⇒ But Users and their needs change over time! “The Primary Value of Software is softness of its structure: That it tolerates and facilities the ongoing change for new features.” — Christian Hujer (paraphrased from Robert “Uncle Bob” C. Martin)
- 6. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Organization Functional Grouped by function Matrix Product Grouped by product/project Project
- 7. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Matrix Organization Example Payment Test Core Test Telco Test Payment Dev Core Dev Telco Dev QA PM DevTest Munich Pune Lisbon Montreal Business Line 1 Business Line 2 CxO Support
- 8. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Product/Project Organization Example Product 2 Product 3 Product 4Product 1 Product Group 1 Product Group 2 Product Group 3 Product Group 4 Business Line 1 Business Line 2 CxO
- 9. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Productive Teams ● What is a Team? ● What is a productive team? ● What makes a team productive? ● When is a team productive? “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” — Agile Manifesto
- 10. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Performing Norming Storming Forming Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
- 11. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Traditional SoftwareProduct/Project End date Success by reaching end date No end date Success by never ending
- 12. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Test Pyramid Unit by/for Developers 3 Integration by/for Architects 2 Acceptance by/for Users 1 S L O W E R F A S T E R — Robert C. Martin, Twitter — Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile
- 13. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. Users not in team ⇒ Long UAT Testers not in team ⇒ Wrong testing approaches Operations (both) not in team ⇒ Slow deployment Support not in team ⇒ Insufficient feedback QA not in team ⇒ Release Blockage instead of Release Support Overspecialization Underperforming Teams Matrix Collateral Damage Examples
- 14. Nelkinda Software Craft Pvt. Ltd. ConnectSummary Matrix organizations risk collateral damage to Agile. Projects organizations are the “natural way” for Agile. Christian Hujer CEO/Founder Nelkinda Software Craft Twitter: @christianhujer LinkedIn: Christian Hujer E-Mail: [email protected] Blog: http://nelkinda.com/ Podcast: TBA YouTube: TBA Questions?