, Esther Derby
__Software teams confront what works and what doesn’t throughout every project. Where does their hard-earned experience go?
With the three basic tools - pen, paper and a kitchen timer – The Pomodoro Technique will empower you with the agile abilities of Constant feedback about your working habits, Dedicated decision points to respond to change, Opportunities on a day to day basis to improve your personal process, A sustainable pace also when the deadline is getting closer, Improved quantitative and qualitative estimates, Strategy for how to cope with interruptions and task switching and a Method to regulate complexity. And The Pomodoro Technique fits perfectly inside Scrum and XP.
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This workshop is aimed at exploring and understanding the customer role on Agile projects. It will answer several common questions about this role, like: What’s an agile customer? What’s the role of the agile customer? Why is this role so important? Is the agile customer one person or a team? What traits should a agile customer have? Why does the role break down? There will be a highly interactive breakout session that will bring different perspectives on the topic from the participants experience and tries to deepen the understanding of this important issue.