What keeps me sleeping at night?
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The document outlines the principles and strategies of effective release management, highlighting the importance of cross-functional collaboration, accountability, and transparency in delivering customer value. It emphasizes the significance of simple and flexible processes, effective estimation methods for engineering tasks, and the necessity for ongoing quality improvement practices. Key insights include the need for alignment on features, effective planning, and avoiding reliance solely on testing teams to ensure quality.
What keeps me sleeping at night?
- 1. WHAT KEEPS ME SLEEPING AT NIGHT? Gildas Lanilis | Director of Release Management
- 2. Values Focused To deliver Business Value Done, Done, Done Empowered To try Fail…fast Accountability Be responsive Be proud, take ownership Let’s say what we plan to do, and do what we planned Kick-Off and Sign-Off Transparency Do we all agreed on what we need to build? Alignment Think about customer experience: from A to Z Cross-Functional
- 3. What is Release Management? How we are organized to deliver value to our customers !!!
- 4. Release Planning & Management Cross Functional Collaboration Process and Policies Release Management Charter
- 5. Processes What is new? Get Inputs: Feature Requests Get Alignment, Commitment: Kick-Off Deliver, Support: Sign-Off
- 6. Planning and Tracking Pivotal All Teams • Simple…to configure • Easy…to understand • Flexible…to match 99% of the Team’s needs For what purpose? Story Cards • Features (customer value) • Bugs (debt) • Chores
- 7. Estimating: Poker Cards Sizing One Fact: Engineers are bad at Estimating Additional Estimation Effort brings little value beyond a certain point • I know, I am an Engineer • Engineers are pretty good when it come to compare • What matters is the relative size of numbers • Fundamentally, “How big is this?” is easier to answer than “How long will this take?”. • So, we give Engineers numbers to pick 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,40,60,100, ?
- 9. Release Metrics One Principle: KISS Keep It Simple …Straightforward !!! • Tell me how many points that story is • Execute a couple of stories • You will know your capacity for a given period
- 10. Quality Facts 56% of defects created the week prior Sign-Off. Tools to Improve Quality What to avoid? Automation Coders: Test as you code… Quality is not the responsibility of only the validation team We are not going to improve quality by adding more testers
- 11. BTW: WHAT KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT? Thank You.