Agile

Quick summary

1. Agile is a framework. Importance is given to the product, people rather than process and tools.
2. More importance is given to collaboration rather than strong documentation
3. Flexible for changes
4. SCRUM is a methodology followed in Agile.
5. Scrum artifacts — product backlog, sprint backlog
6. Product Owner : Face of customer — Prioritizes requirement
7. Backlogs — Contains tasks that are to be done. The task is a story that needs to be granular. Contains smallest piece of job that has an acceptance criteria. That can be completed independently
8. Effort Estimate: Story Points or approximate sizing of the task in fibonacci. How big the story (not how much time it takes)
9. Daily Stand up — SCRUM board
10. Sprint → Design — Build — Test
11. Sprint Goal
12. No separate testing time — its integrated
13. Sprint Burn Down Chart:
    a. Plot the original estimates for the sprint on one line — IDEAL line
    b. Plot the current estimates on another line — Actual line
    c. If the actual line tracks below the Ideal, we are on track
    d. If the actual line tracks above, we are running behind
14. Y axis had the amount of work estimated to complete in a sprint (points or hours)
15. X axis contain sprint days
16. On day 1, we have total number of work hours available (product of team size and hours available in sprint
17. Each day, plot what work is remaining
18. On last day, ideally 0 hours should be remaining
19. Sprint Review — whole team & all stakeholders meeting to demo what has been completed or achieved, stake holders can provide feedback. Each team member should have something to demo — based on what they did in the sprint
20. Sprint Retrospective — not the wider team — discuss what went well, what could have done to make things better, what needs to be done differently in next sprint

Steps in agile to repeat:
1. Get the product backlog in order

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2. Sprint Planning — define sprint goals, size estimations

3. Sprint Planning — Create sprint backlog

4. Create a collaborative workspace

5. Daily Standup meeting

6. Sprint — design, build, test

7. Daily standup, update status backlog & burn down chart

8. Finish as per your task estimate

9. Demo in sprint review

10. Retrospect