Some Background on Fizz Good

• LeanKit in the beginning …

• As we grew …

• Growing pains …

• In the future …

what Fizz Good

and

what doesn’t

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

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Decoupled

Annually

Quarterly

Sporadic

"We are getting away

from 2 years, 3 years, 4

years, 5 years, to design,

build, test and then

deliver a product. We live

in a world of high levels

of agility; being able to

build, measure, learn;

being able to get on a

faster cadence and a

faster loop where we can

deliver value more

frequently."

… and we don’t just

mean to the

customer

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

Big

Turning ”Class of Service”

into "Custom Icon"

• New field in the database, prepopulated … SHIP IT

• Use that to relabel UI in browser … SHIP IT

• Use that to relabel UI in mobile … SHIP IT

• Add edit field to browser board edit UI … SHIP IT

• ANNOUNCE IT (prewritten … whenever)

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

Perfect

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled Coordinated

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

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Small

Good

Decoupled

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

Annually

Big

Good

Coordinated

Frequent

Small

Perfect

Coordinated

Frequent

Big

Perfect

Coordinated

Frequent

Big

Good

Coordinated

Quarterly

Small

Good

Coordinated

Not Fizz GoodLeanKit Black and Connections and YOLO and SSO and ….

How has FSGD been going

for the mobile team?

FSGD ALL THE THINGS!● Frequent builds

o One or two features or bug fixes per build

o Smaller builds are easier to test

● Decoupled from other tech releaseso Adapt when new API becomes available

● Automated buildso Reduce busywork gets builds quickly and frequently

to QA

● Frequent updates to Katieo Close contact, but decoupled from marketing

schedule

● Move the bottleneck downstream

26 Releases!

Move the bottleneck downstream

● Where we started

● Work was stacked in develop

as a big, interdependent

release

Move the bottleneck downstream

● When developers finished, a

bunch of work landed on QA

all at once

● Nothing yet in a customer’s

hand

Move the bottleneck downstream

● So! developers slowed down

work that fed to the QA

bottleneck

o Diverted some effort to:

documentation

process improvement

build automation

● Bottleneck moved to waiting

for 3rd party

Move the bottleneck downstream

• Is the 3rd party bottleneck out

of our control? NO!

• Only send the latest QA’d build

to review

• New releases in customer

hands as quickly as 3rd party

can move

26 Releases!

133 Hockey Builds!

So let’s never say …

• “While we are at it, why don’t we …”

• “We can’t deploy/release x without y…”

Some things are just naturally big

Some things are just naturally

Notoriously big

Some things are just naturally big

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Round Fat Robin Scheduling

This doesn’t Fizz so Good anymore…

Stop Digging

Frequent

Small

Good

Decoupled

2014 by LEANKIT – Daniel Norton, Jon Terry and Chris Hefley

FSGD (Fizz Good) – A LeanKit Way of Working

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