AGILE PATTERNS AND PRACTICES@ patterns & practices

Ade Millerade.miller@microsoft.com

http://www.ademiller.com/tech/

A glimpse into Santa’s workshop

Values Principles Practices

Courage

CommunicationFeedback

RespectSimplicity

Pair programmingRefactoring

Integrate often

Test first

Coding standard

Customer in room

“People only change their values in light of a miracle or near

death experience”

PRACTICES…Best principles

Hire Stars

Focus on the team

Deliver frequently… Or become irrelevant

Co-location?

Agile Teams Work Together

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Distribution

Dislocation

Dissociation

Dysfunction

Focus on communication

Plan to travel

Smart team distribution

Smart work distribution

Coach the team

Build the team over time

Provide the right tools

Beware of shiny objects

Agile is NOTa religion

REFERENCESScrum and XP from the Trenches, Henrik KnibergExtreme Programming Explained, edition 2, Kent Beck

Ade Miller’s bloghttp://www.ademiller.com/tech/

Microsoft patterns & practiceshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/practices

patterns & practices Lab videohttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Tour-Patterns-and-Practices-Lab/

Stock photos in this presentationhttp://www.sxc.hu/

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