AgileTour2010 Ghent Keynote

Agile

The mind, body and soul

About me

• Experience:– 10 years of IT experience in total– 2 years of teaching– 4 years of software development– 3 years of scrum experience

• Professional passions: – Agile– Training and coaching– Code quality and design

• Personal passions:– My family and friends– Music

Partners

• Agile training and events

• ALM expertise

• Professional scrum developer training

Dedicated to

12 easy steps to make agile work

Agile

Why settle for the silver bullet when you can have the golden one

The agile procedure

written down once and for all

Go agile, all the cool kids do it

All you need is scrum

What are we going to cover

• Manifesto• Principles• Truths and lies

• Visual management• Scrum• ALM• Agile practices

• Why agile?• Everyone agile?• Selling agile?

The beginning

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Conversation over rules

No process neededTools aren’t important

Processes and tools to help you, not stand in your wayProcesses and tools as a means, not a goalImprovement through interactionTalk about things, don’t just roll over and play dead

Adding business value

No documentation

Documentation should have a purpose beyond existence

Documentation has no valueDocumentation supporting software

Collaborative sales

No contracts or written agreementsLet the customer figure it outNo release planning

Build trust working together with the customerShare the product visionBe transparant to your customer

Do not fear the dark side

Don’t planBlock all change

Understand reality: things changeMake sure you can incorporate change as easy as

possibleMake your customer aware of the reality of change

Solo

Collaboration

Continuous improvement

It wasn’t build in a day

Adding value, piece by piece

Empirical

Visibility

Transparancy & visibilityhttp://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/

Visual reminder

Scrum

The silver bullet

Planning

Potentially shippable

Collaboration

Self organizing

Cross functional

Sustainable pace

Software development

Software development ++

Architecture

Not about testing

Test automation

Continuous integration

My personal agile

My personal agile

Everyone agile?

The future

The system

Test-Driven DevelopmentCorey Haines

November 4-5, 2010Ghent, Belgium

http://www.agileminds.be/workshop/2010/tdddotnet/index.jsp

Code RetreatCorey Haines World Tour

November 06, 2010Ghent, Belgium

http://www.agileminds.be/workshop/2010/coderetreat/index.jsp

http://ilean.be/course/psd

Professional scrum developerNovember 15 - 19, 2010

2011

• Agile.Net Exchangehttp://www.agileminds.be/conference/2011/agiledotnetx/index.html

• PSD traininghttp://ilean.be/course/psd1

• Workshops code craftsmanship• Workshops agile development

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