program selection system

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Organizational change is hard, and often teams attempt to implement Agile practices and processes without management support. While a key factor in the success of Agile efforts is adequate process support from senior levels, often agile practices and processes can be used at the grass roots level to improve the culture, which can lead to management buy-in.

The task board, that seemingly innocuous artifact of the standup meeting, is perhaps one of the most important physical tools that the team has at its disposal. When teams make the transition to electronic tools, often many of these physical information radiators go away. This can cause unintended problems for teams. They are not insurmountable, but teams should be aware of the potential issues. For example:

What happens when you put together a team of Agile folks and get them to decide which tools, frameworks and libraries they’ll need to do the job? Will we get (a) a happy consensus reached by rational argument, or (b) a never-ending irrational argument about which automated testing frameworks to use? We’re not sure, but in this workshop we’ll try to find out. We look forward to hearing about your own experience and what you think is most important.