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Optimizing YourSoftware Process

AccuRev Proprietary and Confidential Information - © 2011

Optimizing Your Software Process

Getting to DoneTop 5 Process Challenges

Damon Poole

CTO

AccuRev



Introduction to Today’s Speakers

Damon Poole, Founder and CTO, AccuRev• Damon has 20 years of methodology and process

improvement experience, running the gamut from small teams to 10,000-person global development shops. Damon is a Certified Scrum Master and writes frequently on the topic of Agile development with an emphasis on Multi-stage Continuous Integration. His "Do It Yourself Agile" blog is at damonpoole.blogspot.com; twitter: @damonpoole



Top 5 Agile Process Challenges

1. Getting to “Done”

2. Synchronizing distributed teams

3. Delivering the right stories

4. Managing the pace of short iterations

5. Scaling Agile, mixed with traditional



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Visualizing Team and Process Structure

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Support for Remote Teams Under One Process

All developers appear to be co-located, utilizing same processes with lower complexity

All developers see and integrate their work with other remote teams on a real-time basis

Full compliance with a consistent process• Increase trust across the teams

Automated visual processes• Developers have full visibility into process• Reduce time-slicing



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Visualizing Your Enterprise-Wide Process



Agile SCM Allows for Complex Development

Creating a development hierarchy to map and manage your process solves this problem

Completed stories are pushed from one stage to the next

Code grows increasing stable at each stage of the hierarchy

Automatic Merging of “Done” code to other Teams

Makes merging on a frequent basis easy and straightforward



Continuous Flow

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Hooray!



Agile SCM Enables You to…

1. Visualize your entire process

2. Implement Multi-Stage Continuous Integration

3. Virtually co-locate teams

4. Automate and optimize your process

5. Get to “done” frequently and consistently

6. Deliver the right stories

7. Move to short iterations without producing gridlock

8. Increase agility even with many teams and multiple processes



Put Your Actual Process Directly into AccuRev

Data and process are separated

Arduous process to setup and change

Cannot enforce engineering process

Using a Legacy Architecture

Visualization and control of process

Best practices built-in

Control & enforcement of distributed developers and complex processes

AccuRev StreamBrowser™



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