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Experience Effectively Applied Specification Workshop, Backlog Refinement, Stakeholder Interaction and Their Flow Into (Unit)Test and Code m i c h a e l . m a i @ v a l t e c h . c o m Valtech. All Right Reserved. Why this talk? Starting

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Valtech. All Right Reserved.

Experience Effectively Applied Specification

Workshop, Backlog Refinement, Stakeholder Interaction and Their Flow Into (Unit)Test and Code

m i c h a e l . m a i @ v a l t e c h . c o m

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◼ Developers are brilliant people, …

◻ but why does the outcome not match the business need?

◼ Should the business invest in more brilliant developers?

◻ This doesn’t seem reasonable, but what to change?

◼ It’s a slim dividing line between a well working process

◻ and one that doesn’t.

Why this talk?

Starting statements

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◼ Organization Design Consultant ◼ LeSS Coach ◼ Coach for Technical Excellence

Michael Mai

michael.mai@valtech.com // https://valtech.com // http://www.agilesoftwaredesign.de

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

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Product Vision

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Specification Workshop

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SET BASED THINKING

◼ One topic ◼ Explore diversity ◼ Groups of thinkers discuss

◻ No expert ◻ Just team members

◼ Clarify questions with expert after groups pooled their brains ◼ … iterate

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Product Backlog Refinement

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Collaboration Structure

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Where can you contribute your expertise?

… as a non-developer expert

◼ Pile of code

◻ E.g. Unit Test

◼ Tabular form

◻ With pictures

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Unit Test

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◼ Download

◻ Slides, JAR and source code →

http://www.agilesoftwaredesign.de/posts/2019/specification-workshop-refinement-collaboration-vienna/

Live demo

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Sum it up

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Relations

Build up of verifiable statement (aka test)

Refinement & Specification Workshop Sprint Planning 2 Unit Test as you go

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◼ Don’t mistake

◻ Learn & Validation data set

◼ Don’t mistake

◻ Collaboration tools (e.g. FitNesse) as your sole mean for acceptance testing ◻ Collaboration tools (e.g. FitNesse) as your sole mean for integration testing ◻ Collaboration tools (e.g. FitNesse) as your sole mean for system testing

Frequent mistakes

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◼ Don’t fall for

◻ Premature optimization of meeting – developer need to clarify with experts, users and customer directly

◼ Don’t fall for

◻ Prescriptive formats – the Product Backlog consists of items, not (only) of user stories

◼ Don’t fall for

◻ Not testable criteria – each criteria need to be testable

Frequent mistakes

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◼ Don’t fall for

◻ Calls like “we need this feature right now” – consider always the business side

◼ Don’t fall for

◻ Talking only tech in refinement – during Backlog Refinement understanding of the problem is key

Frequent mistakes

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◼ Use simple plain decision tables in FitNesse

◻ No library table

◼ Keep processes simple

◻ Understanding over documentation ◻ “living” documentation over 100s of pages of texts

◼ Keep meeting pointed

◻ Include experts, include team members, direct communication

KISS

“Keep it simple, stupid”

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thank you

Slides and codes: http://www.agilesoftwaredesign.de/posts/2019/specification-workshop-refinement-collaboration-sgvie19/