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Kicking off any new software project is scary. Kicking off an agile software project can be even scarier. However, rather than being afraid of risk, we can embrace it and learn from it. The lessons we learn will help us guide our teams to an overall stronger product.
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Reducing Risk in Agile Projects
Jeremy Jarrell@jeremyjarrell
What is Risk?
Building the wrong thing
Not working as a team
Festering problems
“This project is too riskyfor agile.”
Frequent demos to the customer
Daily stand upsRegular
retrospectives
Iteration
Project
Project Risk.
Features Deadline
Team
Features
Deadline
Iteration Risk.
What could happen?
How likely is it?
P×I=E
P×I=E.Mmm,
As a customer, I want to review my transactions, so I can see where I’m spending my money.
There’s too many transactions to pull quickly.
Some transactions are delayed.
Some transactions are delayed.
Probability = 3
Impact = 1
Exposure = Probability × Impact= 3
There’s too many transactions to pull quickly.Probability = 2
Impact = 3
Exposure = Probability × Impact= 6
There’s too many transactions to pull quickly.
Invest time in performance tuning.
Pre-aggregate the transactions.
As a customer, I want to view how my current spending compare against my budget,so I can see how I’m pacing for the month.
The graph doesn’t work in IE6.
The ‘UI Guy’ gets sick mid-sprint.
The graph doesn’t work in IE6.Probability = 3
Impact = 1
Exposure = 3
The ‘UI Guy’ gets sick mid-sprint.
Probability = 3
Impact = 3
Exposure = 9
The ‘UI Guy’ gets sick mid-sprint.
Pair with another developer.
Peer code reviews.
P×I=E
What’s next?
Tackle high risk stories first
Beware of stories with many risks
Look for patterns
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