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At last! After ten years of successfully coaching teams into XP, Mike Hill reveals the secret to agile transition: throwing a continuous good party.

There are several keys to hosting a good transition party:

• The Pre-Party Prep:
  • Invitations — Who to get involved, and how.
  • The Dance Floor — Preparing the workspace.
  • Food & Favors — Getting everyone in the mood.
• The Early Days:
  • Finding a Groove — Getting your team into rhythm.
  • Path-Smoothing — Dealing with incompatible guests.
  • Games — Keeping the team entertained.
• The Steady State:

Abstract

Over the last few years we have had the good fortune to aggressively apply the agile practices on a number of projects with great success. These successes, however, have not been achieved without challenges and lessons learnt along the way. This experience report specifically highlights examples from three different software development projects of varying sizes within this period and within the same organization. This is the story of three little pigs, where in all cases the pigs were well and truly committed.

Agile is now on most CV’s, so beyond the hype what is the future?

Scrum & XP may sound deceptively simple. But once you get down to the everyday practical stuff there are many subtle traps hiding about. Common mistakes that are easy to make and hard to detect, mistakes that cancel out many of the benefits that Agile methods were supposed to give. In this talk I’ll go through some of these traps, how to detect them, what the effect is, and what can be done about them.

A high-volume online poker system deployed prematurely and crashing every day. 50 (fifty!) consultants thrown in near the end to rush the release. The worst code anybody in the project had ever seen. Team members working 80 hour weeks.

This is what I saw when I started as CTO of a Swedish gaming company. 3 days into the job we crashed the national poker tournament and were thrashed in the tabloids. A few days later I was notified that half my team would have to go, just in time for christmas. Oh, and someone promised media that we would re-run the national poker tournament within 5 weeks.

Depuis longtemps fascinés par l’expressivité et l’élégance de ces langages, nous cherchons à comprendre comment articuler les pratiques XP - TDD, Binômage, remaniement du code, itérations - et le paradigme fonctionnel; à identifier les points faibles et forts de ces langages par rapport au paradigme dominant - l’objet - dans le cadre de processus de développement agiles; à convaincre le plus grand nombre, enfin, de la pertinence de modifier nos modes de pensée dans le sens où ces langages nous y invitent.

After 7 years of traditional IT delivery, Gap Inc. Direct decided to adopt Agile. This experience report discusses three key factors that contributed to our successful (and ongoing) Agile transformation: 1. Ambitious Pilot Project 2. Massive Investment in Continuous Integration 3. Rethinking our Assets

A Japanese band would like to sing a song about Agile at the banquet party. The song is called “Dear XP” and quite well-known in Japanese XP and Agile communities.

Watch this 3-minute movie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpw8h4OGNxg

I realized for the first time the true strength of human collaboration. Two chairs next to each other but one computer together watching flowing clouds and the source code

XP Dear XP On the wall we remember the task cards the team strugled with in the summer days

Value Statement:

The community will learn 10 valuable tips that have been distilled from a decade of helping people transition to agile methods.

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