How to Address Application Performance in Agile Scrum Teams

November 27, 2013 by Ajitesh Kumar · Leave a comment
application performance in agile scrum teams

Given the nature SCRUM, two quality characteristics that takes back seat and considered as implicit are performance and security. I shall discuss the approach on how to address application performance while working with agile SCRUM teams.

Before I go and list down the tips and techniques, let’s understand some of the constraints:

  • Not all developers working in SCRUM teams are very familiar with application performance aspects
  • It may get difficult to do performance testing at the end of each sprint.
  • It may get difficult to articulate performance related user stories in each sprint.

Given above constraints, it becomes much more important to address performance related issues in SCRUM model. Following is a proposed model which I have found to work and take care of application performance issues on ongoing basis:

  • Create a centralized performance team consisting of appropriate number of performance engineers/testers.
  • Have the performance team work on SCRUM model where performance related stories such as performance testing are entered in their sprint backlogs by different SCRUM teams.
  • The performance stories such as performance testing can be dealt during integration testing phase or so after all the sprints are done and the release readiness is going on.
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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.
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