{"id":1626,"date":"2016-06-29T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:59:16","slug":"agile-alliance-technical-debt-initiative-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/agile-alliance-technical-debt-initiative-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Alliance &#8211; Technical Debt Initiative workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember this post &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/agile-alliance-technical-debt-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agile Alliance Technical Debt Initiative<\/a>&#8216; I did\u00a0 in April, in order to announce the publication of some deliverables or our group? Well, we had our 2016 workshop last week, and this has been both a great event as a productive work for some promising outcomes this year.<\/p>\n<p>Let me first remind you about the Agile Alliance Technical Debt Initiative: you will find everything on the corresponding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/resources\/initiatives\/technical-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a> on the\u00a0 Agile Alliance website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/introduction-to-the-technical-debt-concept\/\" target=\"_blank\">introduction on Technical Debt<\/a>, reviewed by Ward Cunningham himself.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/the-agile-alliance-debt-analysis-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model<\/a> (A2DAM) that we developed, with the contribution of eleven software vendors, as a ready-to-use ground-level list of simple \u201cgood practices which, when violated, generate technical debt\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>A publication I personally like very much about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/project-management-and-technical-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to manage technical debt on Agile projects<\/a>, at release-level, iteration-level and story-level activities.<\/li>\n<li>And last but not least, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/dice-of-debt-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Dice of Debt<\/a>, which we had the opportunity to play with our friends Madrile\u00f1os.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What, did I forget to tell you that our workshop took place in Madrid? Nice place for our three days meeting and some very creative exchanges.<\/p>\n<h4>Modeling the Technical Debt<\/h4>\n<p>I will not list everything we did and what we plan to work on in 2016, but we got some interesting presentation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/dwhelandpwhelan-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Declan<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/System_archetype\" target=\"_blank\">System archetypes<\/a> and another presentation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/dansilverthreadinc-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan<\/a> about some works he did in this area. The idea is to identify patterns in the creation of technical debt and its evolution, based not only on theory but also on practical field experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/thierry-coqdnvgl-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thierry<\/a> is working on a dynamic modeling of technical debt, where I see a lot of potential. Imagine being able to use a tool to evaluate the impact of your technical debt by changing settings and configuration in order to adapt it to your context, your project, your Agile practices, etc. This would make technical debt visible to your organization, and help understand how it may evolve in the short and long term, depending on the decisions you take to manage it.<\/p>\n<h4>MadriAgil meetup<\/h4>\n<p>We took advantage of our presence in the Spanish capital to organize an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/fr-FR\/madriagil\/events\/231625597\/\" target=\"_blank\">event with MadriAgil<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/jl-letouzeygmail-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Louis<\/a> did a short presentation of our group, the objectives, the work already done and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/kingdaddy8gmail-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom<\/a> presented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/madriagil\/files\/\" target=\"_blank\">some slides about technical debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1635\" src=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom.jpg\" alt=\"MeetupMadriAgil_Tom\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom-768x438.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_Tom-624x356.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Then we quickly moved to a session of the Dice of Debt game, forming teams of four players who had to decide a strategy to deal with technical debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_DiceofDebt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1632\" src=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_DiceofDebt.jpeg\" alt=\"MeetupMadriAgil_DiceofDebt\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_DiceofDebt.jpeg 600w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadriAgil_DiceofDebt-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Everybody did enjoy it, lot of fun, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/madriagil\/photos\/27032812\/#450927712\" target=\"_blank\">the feedback was really great<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadrAgil_Feedback.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1638\" src=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadrAgil_Feedback.jpeg\" alt=\"MeetupMadrAgil_Feedback\" width=\"472\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadrAgil_Feedback.jpeg 472w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadrAgil_Feedback-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a>This was also a good opportunity for our group to learn some lessons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the almost 40 participants, a good proportion of them was attending for the first time an Agile meetup: technical debt is a subject which interests and attracts, probably because it is a real concern for many people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/author\/dwhelandpwhelan-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Declan<\/a> asked to everyone to evaluate how bad is the technical debt on their project, on a scale from 1 (good) to 5 (very bad): a majority of 3 and 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadridAgilTD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1633\" src=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadridAgilTD.jpeg\" alt=\"MeetupMadridAgilTD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadridAgilTD.jpeg 600w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MeetupMadridAgilTD-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe up to 80% of the participants were using Scrum practices on their project. This makes me think that there is some room for some operational \u2018how-to\u2019 manage technical debt on Agile projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were all really enthusiastic after this event, and we hope that we will be able to hold it again, with other Agile communities in other cities.<\/p>\n<p>There is also some work going on for an online version of the Dice of Debt game. And to create an online quizz to allow everybody to have a self-assessment of his knowledge about technical debt. There should be also a webinar, maybe more than one as there is so much to say on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to meet again for this workshop, as everything cannot always be done with Hangouts, so let me finish with a photo of our group:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Agile Alliance Technical Debt Initiative Workshop \u2013 Madrid 2016<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1634\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1634\" src=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop Madrid2016\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qualilogy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/WorkshopMadrid2016-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Sturtevant, Jean-Pierre Fayolle, Thierry Coq, Jean-Louis Letouzey, Declan Whelan, Tom Grant<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember this post &#8216;Agile Alliance Technical Debt Initiative&#8216; I did\u00a0 in April, in order to announce the publication of some deliverables or our group? 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