Demo: Using Trello for Agile

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Managing an Agile Team

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University of Virginia

Managing an Agile Team

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Course 3 of 5 in the Specialization Agile Development

Traditional development processes often lead to team frustration and poor results. Agile offers a different approach to managing the complexity of software development. This course focuses on the day-to-day jobs of running a software development program and how leading agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, kanban) can help you do them better. From transitioning a team to agile to running sprints to managing stakeholders, this course gives you the skills you need to manage an agile team in your specific operating environment. We'll show you how to: - Think through and focus on the most important aspects of your projects and sprints - Facilitate your team’s initial and ongoing adoption of the specific agile practices that work for you - Anchor your outcomes and success criteria in durable ideas about what makes for valuable products - Support your team's transition from traditional approaches to agile - Create an agile-friendly environment across functional disciplines - Identify and manage outside stakeholder needs As a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been approved by PMI to issue 20 professional development units (PDUs) for this course, which focuses on core competencies recognized by PMI. (Provider #2122) This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.

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Learning and Deciding

One of the major promises of agile is to manage the complexities of software development for the best possible outcomes and working environments. Part and parcel of that is strong interdisciplinary collaboration paired with lightweight self-organizing management practices. This week, you’ll learn practical tactics from scrum and XP to promote faster learning and smarter decisions, and how you can use kanban to improve your workflow.

Valuable Decisions4:34

Slicing the Lasagna6:25

Managing Work in Progress: Part 15:25

Managing Work in Progress: Part 27:56

The Quagmire of Estimation, the Power of Flow8:08

Demo: Using Trello for Agile2:31

Bill Wake on Estimates and Prioritization3:20

Greg Cohen on User Stories10:33

Bill Wake on Burndown2:27

Greg Cohen on Prioritization4:26

Agile Methodologies and the Job of Deciding6:08

Skit: Iteration Planning4:38

Meet the Instructors

Alex Cowan
Faculty & Batten Fellow
Darden School of Business

We talked about managing work in progress and

a kanban board is a popular way to do that.

I'm going to show you a few common operations related

to the material we talked about on a simple,

flexible tool called trello that's popular, as a way to do this.

So the cards that you see here and it's not really important whether you can read

the exact text, the cards here represent tasks or user stories.

And we talked about, this is the sprint back log for HVAC in a hurry so

these are the items in the back log.

As for instance, Sherry starts working an item, she might open it up and

assign it to herself and then she might, for instance, move it to working,

so everybody knows this is what Sri's working on.

She might move it to Testing, to Product Owner Review, and

then she might remove herself from the card and assign it to Danny,

the product owner, so that he knows that he should go in and take a look.

Another few things that are common facilities that get used

in different ways for different things are, for instance, labels.

So you can code something green, yellow, orange, etc.

And this is a tool that you might use, for instance, to say, hey, I'm blocked on

this, or let's say you're adding both user stories and tasks into your trillo board.

This might be a way of delineating what's what.

And you can also add checklist.

So we talked about the idea that you might want to just use user stories and

your backlogs so that you can see kind of work in progress that's anchored and

a narrative rather than putting also tasks on the board.

Well, if you wanted to add tasks and break them down in your card just for

your own tracking or other folk, you could put in tasks here and

you can check them off as you go along, if you want to organize tasks here.

So, those are the few of the most common facilities on

the Trello board that I see used with practitioners.

You may find this a useful way to get started with Agile.

It's certainly not the only tool.

There are lots of tools out there, and no enterprise software is going to

automatically give you a great practice of agile.

So the most important thing is that you think about

how you want to use the tool that you're going to use, and then

that's consistent with your unknowing view of what practices you want to implement.

So those are a few ideas on how to apply some of the work in progress techniques

we've talked about with one common tool for managing Agile Trello.

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