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A Guide to the New Continuous Agile Table Of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 5 The Big Trends ................................................................................................................................. 5 Welcome ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Trial by Fire .................................................................................................................................... 10 Continuous Agile .......................................................................................................................... 13 About Agile .................................................................................................................................... 13 Continuous Agile Principles .............................................................................................................. 17 Three Agile Use Cases ..................................................................................................................... 19 The Beyond Scrum Roadmap ........................................................................................................... 20 Continuous Delivery .................................................................................................................... 23 Benefits and Costs .......................................................................................................................... 23 Foundations ................................................................................................................................... 26 Changing Roles .............................................................................................................................. 27 Feature Switches ............................................................................................................................ 31 Test Layering ................................................................................................................................. 35 Reversible and Risk Free ................................................................................................................. 37 CD Dial .......................................................................................................................................... 38 Remove Waterfall Stages ................................................................................................................ 40 Release Strategies .......................................................................................................................... 42 Centralized Continuous Integration ................................................................................................... 44 Distributed Continuous Release ........................................................................................................ 47 A Unified Approach ......................................................................................................................... 50 Steps to Adopt ............................................................................................................................... 52 Continuous Stories ....................................................................................................................... 56 Centralized CD at Google ................................................................................................................. 56 Distributed CD at Assembla ............................................................................................................. 58 Mobile Apps ................................................................................................................................... 61 Working with Clients ....................................................................................................................... 70 Task Management ........................................................................................................................ 75 Roadmapping ................................................................................................................................. 75 Iterations, Releases, Milestones ........................................................................................................ 77 Scrum Sprints ................................................................................................................................. 79 Scrumban ...................................................................................................................................... 82 Kanban / Continuous ....................................................................................................................... 84 Code Management ....................................................................................................................... 90 Contributors ................................................................................................................................... 90 Version Control ............................................................................................................................... 91 Prototyping .................................................................................................................................... 94 Iterative ......................................................................................................................................... 96 Review Flows ................................................................................................................................. 99 Cascading .................................................................................................................................... 103 Branch or Fork .............................................................................................................................. 105 Automated Testing .................................................................................................................... 109 Goals of Automated Testing ........................................................................................................... 109 Types of Tests .............................................................................................................................. 110 Test Frameworks .......................................................................................................................... 113 Social Framework ......................................................................................................................... 114 Testing Topologies ........................................................................................................................ 116 Product Management ................................................................................................................ 120 An Important Challenge ................................................................................................................. 120 The Prioritized Backlog .................................................................................................................. 122 Epics and Allocations .................................................................................................................... 124 Unblock! A Guide to the New Continuous Agile Quality and Velocity ...................................................................................................................... 127 Story Owner Process ..................................................................................................................... 132 Story Owner Checklist ................................................................................................................... 134 Stories ......................................................................................................................................... 137 More than one way to design ......................................................................................................... 140 Average Up .................................................................................................................................. 141 Learn Before Launch ..................................................................................................................... 144 Distributed Teams ...................................................................................................................... 146 Co-located, Outsourced, Distributed ................................................................................................ 146 Communications ........................................................................................................................... 148 Things to Do ...............................................................................................................................