Index
A
acceptance test-driven development
coach 56
compared to test-driven development 47
definition 42
for requirements 271
for UAT 463
in iteration 48
is not testing 47
offshore 462
overview 44
recommended reading 96
adapters 327
adoption
agile curriculum 401
avoid cookbooks 401
large-group introductions 397
Open Space 398
overview 373
project 380
targets 385
Adzic, Gojko 49
in design workshops 289
ambassador
activities in coordination 194
multisite 432
offshore 455
analysis
see requirements
analysis group 234
Ancona, Deborah 193
andon 359
appraisals
CMMI 480
appraisers
CMMI 494
Arbogast, Tom 499
architect
active master programmers 288, 302
astronauts 302
avoid handing off to programmers 308
avoid separate review of work 312
coaches during design workshops 299
impact if not programming 286
program spikes 308
programmer in tiger team 308
teaches during code reviews 312
architecture
analysis 301
and customer-centric features 307
build vertical slices 305
Community of Practice 313
design 301
documentation 310
see SAD workshops
group 234
integrity 293
outdated 302
question finality 301
see also design
spikes 308
versus growing, gardening 282
Area Backlog 15, 133, 215, 221, 555
Area Product Owner 15, 133, 135, 136, 215, 423, 555
artifacts
see documentation
A-TDD
see acceptance test-driven development
B
backlog grooming
see Product Backlog refinement
branching 358
browser wars 334
bug-free code 39
build speed 361
business advantages 100
business analyst
not the Product Owner 124
business manager
as Product Owner 121
business rules 52
C
C++ unit testing 73
career paths 342
cargo cult 2
Carmel, Erran 413
certifications
agile 493
CMMI 480
change management
contracts 521
change project 380
changes
large ones 369
chief Product Owner 135
clean up your neighborhood 346
ClearCase
CMMI
appraisers 494
overview 480
coaches
avoid coaches who aren’t hands-on 400
external 399
external and internal 400
offshore 469
coaching
internal group 399
code
HTLM-ize it 317
is the design 282
multisite 438
reviews 312
coffee 86
Cohn, Mike 195
collaboration 116
co-located team 413
committer role 314
communicate in code 211
communication barriers 209
Communities of Practice
design/architecture 313
for communication 208
general 207
multisite 433
Community of Practice
testing 35
competition between teams 198
component guardians 314
component teams
drawbacks 553
to feature teams 391
Concordion 57
continuous integration
developer practice 352
how frequently? 356
misconceptions 351
multisite 424
overview 351
continuous integration system
multi-stage 364
scaling 361
scaling example 366
continuous product development 157
contract game 106
contract negotiation 106
contracts
acceptance 522
agile 518
appreciate lawyer point of view 502
change management 521
collaborate with lawyers 516
collaboration 116
common misunderstandings 504
contract game 106
deliverables 525
delivery 519
fixed price 527
fixed-price fixed-scope 531
hybrid pricing 530
incentives, rewards, penalties 514
internal 190
key agile insights 500
lawyer education 501, 509, 511, 513
liability 524
multi-phase models 539
multi-phase variable-model 543
offshore 494
overview 499
payment timing 526
pay-per-use pricing 529
progressive 536
release contract 106
scope 519
silo mentality 505
termination 522
thinking about 500
time and materials 527
traditional assumptions 504
value-based pricing 528
variable-price variable-scope 536
warranty 525
cookbooks 401
coordination
centralized 200
cross-department 190
decentralized 206
meetings 200
responsibility for 196
ScrumMaster’s responsibilities 197
team is responsible for 194
thinking about 189
travelers 207
coordinator 190
coordinator, ambassador, and scout 193
copy-paste 336
CppUTest 73
cross-department coordinator 190
cross-functional teams 191
cubicles 209
Cucumber 57
culture
multisite 437
overview 468
Cunningham, Ward 57
customer documentation 192
customer-facing test 42
customers 145
D
defect tracking 39
defects
(to fix) in Product Backlog 225
zero tolerance 39
Definition of Done 15, 170, 178
demo preparation 59
department interfaces 190
dependency injection 318, 319, 320
design
multisite 435
overview 281
see also architecture
sending offshore 316
thinking about 282
walking skeleton 305
design patterns 316
design workshops
at the start 296
each iteration 295
in team room 297
joint for multiple teams 298
overview 289
developer testing 72
discuss-develop-deliver cycle 44
dispersed team 413, 416, 419, 420, 472
documentation
architectural 310
requirements
done
see Definition of Done
dual targeting 76
duplication
between requirements and tests 56
between tests 66
code 82
E
education
for all teams 401
learning tests for new hardware 80
testing 77
environment mapping 211
epic
see splitting
terminology 222
estimation
Monte Carlo simulation 184
multisite 429
overview 181
value 139
examples for requirements 50, 245
experiments 2
exploratory testing 62
external coordinator 195
Extreme Programming
see XP
F
false dichotomies 2
Feathers, Michael 73
feature 222
feature screening 216
feature teams
as automation team 38
choosing 554
dispersed 420
from component teams 391
in large-scale Scrum 12
multisite 418
overview 549
transition 555
vs component teams 551
vs project groups 552
Fit 57
FitNesse 57
fixed-price contracts
see contracts
flexibility and specialization 551
Fowler, Martin 351
FPGA 322
function-to-function-pointer refactoring 78
FURPS+ 231
G
Git 358
Grenning, James 97
grooming
see Product Backlog refinement
growing vs building 355
H
Hackman, Richard 198
hardware 317
hardware abstraction layer 320, 321
hardware design 322
hardware simulators 71
Hetzel, Bill 29
Hohmann, Luke 152
I
impediments
backlog 381
service 381
improvement 373
incentives 514
incremental handoff 179
inspect-adapt
overview 373
product management 148
interaction design
see UI design
interaction design group 234
interface API design 323, 324, 326
INVEST test 247
ISTQB 32
iteration planning
see Sprint Planning
J
jidoka 353
JIT modeling 295
joint design workshop 298
joint requirement workshops 246
joint Scrum meetings 205
joint Sprint Retrospective 15, 17, 403
K
Klärck, Pekka 57
L
lake and rocks metaphor 407
language 456
large-scale Scrum
artifacts 13
definition 9
framework-1 10
framework-2 15
roles 12
law of communication paths 199
law of the inverse relationship between size and
skill 339
lead Product Owner
overall 135
learning debt 336
learning tests 79
Lecht, Charles 334
legacy code
awareness 342
lethal 347
overview 333
solution 343
line manager 393
M
maintainable tests 65
Marick, Brian 27
Martin, Bob 57
matrix organization 31
MDA 291
MDD 291
meetings
Meszaros, Gerard 36
milestone 108
modeling
agile 292
avoid extremists 303
just-in-time 295
requirements
tools 291
Monte Carlo simulation 184
moving skeletons 368
multisite
ambassador 432
avoid ClearCase 441
centrifugal forces 413
coding style 438
Communities of Practice 433
continuous integration 424
culture 437
design 435
dispersed vs. distributed 416
estimation 429
feature team 418
is non-trivial 415
matchmakers 435
one iteration per product, not site 417
Open Space 430
overview 413
partner sites 423
planning poker 429
Scrum of Scrums 430
shared space 209
site organization 417
teams 420
thinking about 414
transition to feature teams 421
visits 432
myriad coordination methods 199
N
Netscape 334
non-functional requirements
in Product Backlog 225
see FURPS+
O
offshore
acceptance TDD 462
ambassador 455
certification 480
CMMI 480
CMMI appraisers 494
coaches 469
contracts 494
culture 468
design problems 316
domain and vision workshop 460
educate customers 446
educate Sales 448
feature teams 470
kickoff workshop 448
language 456
matchmakers 450
onshore partnership 469
onshore Product Owner 457
overview 445
partnership 470
planning 470
remove barriers 450
requirements workshop 458
ScrumMaster 468
Sprint Retrospective 456
Sprint Review 454
team visits onshore 457
teams 466
titles 467
tools 495
translator on team 455
UI design 461
video sessions 451
visits both ways 454
Open Space
for agile adoption 398
multisite 430
overview 204
outsourcer
avoid factories and factory mindset 478
choose good programmers 479
choosing 475
four-year programmers 477
improve together 480
poor environment 477
top-heavy management 476
outsourcing
and legacy code 341
choosing a partner 475
overview 445
overall product focus 193, 198
overall Product Owner 135
overburden 337
P
PBI 215
PDMA 152
penalties 514
personal safety 376
Pichler, Roman 152
planning
infrastructure 168
iteration 163
overview 155
research and learning 166
Sprint 163
planning poker
multisite 429
platform departments 191
Poppendieck, Mary 4
potentially shippable 26
potentially shippable product increment 14, 170
PowerPoint architects 302
practices
context dependent 4
pricing
contracts and outsourcing 527
prioritization
avoid categories 143
of Product Backlog 139
Product Backlog
Area Backlog 215
avoid tasks 237
avoid team-level backlogs 238
creation 155
items 215
major improvement goals 404
one per product 132
only one per product 13
PBI 215
refinement 166
themes 216
visual management 229
Product Backlog refinement
for A-TDD 49
joint or asynchronous 166
overview 15
workshop 243
product management
avoid short-term focus 123
changes when adopting Scrum 104
collaboration with R&D 116
contract negotiation 106
inspect-adapt 148
overview 99
traditional assumptions 117
avoid too inward 124
chief 135
fake 123
has business authority 121
help from Team 147
interaction with other POs 131
lead 135
looks outward 124
not just an analyst 124
offshore development 457
overall 135
proxy 135
us-them versus Team 125
Product Owner representative 135, 138
Product Owner Team 17, 136, 137, 236
profit 141
program manager 190
projects
prototypes 304
proxies 327
proxy Product Owner 135
punching holes 210
R
refactoring
large ones 369
Reinertsen, Donald 4
relative value points 139
release contract 106
release train 180
for non-functionals 70
overview 555
vs development areas 556
requirements
acceptance TDD 271
artifacts 229
by example 245
clarifying by writing tests 49
customer-centric 236
multiple descriptions 56
non-functional 225
offshore 462
offshore to onshore 465
offshore workshop 458
overview 215
tables 245
tool 462
requirements workshop
A-TDD workshop agenda 54
for Product Backlog refinement 243
overview 240
so-called optimizing 51
research
fake 228
in Product Backlog 227
planning it 166
risk 141
Robot Framework
architecture 87
calling C code 90
example using 83
introduction 57
test library 86
types of tables 86
room
see team room
rubber chicken 354
S
SAD workshop 310
safety (personal) 376
SAGE 338
salary 342
scenario 249
Schwaber, Ken 9
Scientific Management, critique 4
scout activities 194
Scrum
see large-scale Scrum
Scrum of Scrums
alternatives
Open Space 204
Town Hall 205
format 201
multisite 430
overview 200
rotate representatives 203
rotate representatives too frequently 203
ScrumMaster’s role 203
status to management 202
two parts 202
ScrumMaster
avoid representing team 434
in large-scale Scrum 13
not project manager 393
offshore 468
slow rotation 408
Second Life 209
secret toolbox 336
shared space 208
simulation layers 321
Slim 57
small changes 355
specialization 550
spikes 308
splitting requirements 217, 247
splitting user stories
see splitting requirements
Sprint Backlog 13
Sprint Planning 163
multisite issues 165
part one 163
part two 166
Sprint Retrospective
in large-scale Scrum 15
multisite 433
offshore 456
Sprint Review
bazaar 206
multisite 454
offshore 454
show tests 59
team level 406
stakeholders 141
stop and fix 38
stories
see user stories
story points 181
strategic alignment 141
supporting Product Owner 134, 135
T
tables for requirements 245
target-cost contracts 520
targets 385
task-coordinator activities 194
tasks
in Product Backlog 237
Taylor, Frederick 4
TDD
see test-driven development
Team (in Scrum) 12
team size 192
teams
cross-functional 234
technical debt 336
technical writing 34
test 23
test automation team 37
test department 30
test education 34
test independence 29
test sessions 64
test smells 36
test tools
commercial 40
conventional 57
wrap conventional tools 58
test-driven development
better architecture 319
coach 74
internal 75
overview 74
tester certification 32
testing
and Product Owner 51
before release 42
classifications 27
in Sprint Planning 41
in Sprint Review 42
keyword-driven 83
legacy code 346
meaning of 24
on the hardware 317
overview 40
skills 96
specialization 33
terminology 26
thinking about 24
through the UI 67
traditional 46
using walls 52
testing community 35
tests
automated 60
deleting 66
distill 55
expensive 71
long-running 70
non-automatable 62
non-functional 69
on development environment 76
on real hardware 77
performance 70
refactoring 81
reliability 70
table format 53
user-acceptance 59
workflow 54
testware 37
themes 216
tiger team 308
TMM 32
tools
agile management 389
for modeling 291
for requirements 273
offshore 495
requirements offshore 462
Town Hall meeting 205
TPI 32
tracer code 305
transformation project 380
transition
component teams to feature teams 391
overview 373
to feature teams 421
travelers 207
trivializing programming 341
TTCN 57
U
UAT 463
pre-UAT 464
with A-TDD 463
UI design
importance of 300
offshore 461
Undone Work 173, 177, 179, 225, 226
unit testing
overview 72
rules for 73
unit tests
slow 83
use case 249
user stories
formats 271
overview 266
question their use
splitting
term 222
user-acceptance test 59
see UAT
V
velocity 184
video sessions 451
video technology 425
virtual shared space 209
virtualization of hardware 71
W
walking skeleton 305
weakly-typed interfaces 324
whiteboards 290
wishful thinking 337
workflow test 54
working agreements
cross-team 405
for coordination 212
workshops
initial Product Backlog refinement 158
joint 246
joint design 298
multisite 428
SAD 310
X
XP 303
xUnit 76