Agile Software Development

Agile Software Development

• How software engineering works (in my experience)
  • How a software company is organized
  • What is a software company nowadays anyway?
  • Classic roles and how they apply in a software company
    • Marketing
    • Sales
    • Engineering+Quality Assurance
    • Finance
    • Business Development
• The role of a ‘schedule’
  • Why is it important?
  • How is it used?
  • Discussion: When things change….
    • How are some of the ways that things can change?
    • What can cause those changes
• Agile
  • Project management/Software engineering
  • Methodology? Many variants.
  • Not a survey; just learning how to use a particular tool
  • Agile => Extreme Programming, Scrum, and many other variants.
  • Other methodologies: waterfall. “BDUF”.
• Scrum
  • Our preferred variant of agile
  • Scrum Principles:
  • Change is expected and embraced
  • Time-boxing: work in fixed units of time (sprints)
  • Describe what is to be built in small bite-size pieces (stories)
  • Small, empowered, cross functional teams (scrum teams)
  • Rapid Iteration with continues customer input (product owner)
  • Don’t estimate – measure
• Concepts from Scrum:
  • Stories
  • Standup meetings
  • Backlog
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum Master
  • Sprints (for us, 1 week sprints)
  • Velocity
  • Pair Programming
  • Continual Integration
  • Test Driven Development