value
Coaches Are Producers
Sat, 2008-02-16 09:16 — David Hussman
In the recording industry, producers help guide production by balancing creativity with costs, quality, and schedules. The great producers value and nurture the uniqueness of each project. The producer helps the players (and others) complete the project while providing a time and space for improvisation.
Agile coaches face similar challenges while helping communities deliver (produce) software. Sustainable agility often starts with an agile coach helping a community find its unique groove. Like the music producer, the coach needs to help the individuals as well as the community innovate and deliver.
Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Thu, 2008-01-31 16:50 — Dave Nicolette
, Karl Scotland
The purpose of this session is to help non-technical project managers understand the business value of one of the popular agile software development techniques. It is designed to help project managers understand the impact on their projects when their technical teams use the agile technique, test-driven development (TDD).
Audience: (1) Project managers working with agile development teams, and (2) technical agile practitioners looking for arguments to convince their management that agile methods are worthy of adoption.
Prioritizing and Sequencing Features: several techniques including “Minimal Marketable Features”
Tue, 2008-01-29 04:39 — evan campbellshort form for 90 word session description:
Basic backlogs for a simple project are easy to prioritize and sequence. Backlogs for complex programs of many teams and many interdependent projects, (or complex product suites) are harder to measure value and prioritize. Deriving the optimal story sequence in the release plan in order to maximize project value requires a more scientific approach.
Come and Take It! Lean Pull Applied
Tue, 2008-01-08 21:15 — Rod Coffin, Don McGreal—— begin 90 word abstract ——
How can we as software professionals and craftsmen know that we are producing the most valuable system at just the right time for our users?
The concept of “pull” from lean manufacturing challenges mainstream approaches to software development and reconsiders how value is delivered to the customer by inverting the thought process and focusing first on delivery.
In this demonstration participants will experience how a real working system can be constructed from the ground up by employing popular industry “signals” to “pull” the creation of working software.
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Come and take it! Learn how to build the right system where each agent takes just what they need, just in time, to create value for the customer.
How can we as software professionals and craftsmen know that we are producing the most valuable system at just the right time for our users? The kanban method and the concept of “pull” from lean manufacturing, in combination with agile values and practices, provide a powerful guide for how we can improve our profession by employing popular industry “signals” to “pull” the creation of working software.
By inverting the thought process and focusing first on delivery, “pull” challenges mainstream approaches to software development by reconsidering how value is delivered to the customer.
In this demonstration participants will experience how a real working system can be constructed from the ground up through the definition of executable specifications. See how through a series of micro-iterations, requirements can pull the creation of executable specifications, developer tests, production code, and refactorings.
