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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:

Testers often get left out in the cold when their development team transition to agile. We’ll look at “the wall” of challenges they face, and explore the support testers need to break through it. The goal is to get testers and QA teams get traction understanding agile development. We’ll poll participants for problems, and explore what they need to know and where to find it. Training, physical logistics, new roles as agile testers and QA managers, adapting traditional testing activities such as audit requirements are just a few of the areas we’ll touch on.

In a crisis ridden business environment, customers have become averse to surprises and there is a heightened need for shorter development cycles and higher visibility. This is translating into customers specifically asking for agile. Service organizations like Wipro Technologies need to adopt lean and agile methodologies to support the transition. As agile coaches, the biggest challenge we face is in transitioning the mindset of the team from that of a waterfall model to an agile thought pattern. Our experience in converting waterfall team to agile is shared in this report.

To become Agile, your organization will undergo a large, risky and difficult change. Many adopters who report success also tell of struggle and hurdles. Do you know where your risks and pitfalls are? Are you aware of the forces – within people, teams and the entire organization – that could derail your efforts? Come to this tutorial to learn where to look and how to prepare. And beyond managing risks and preparing a transition plan, you’ll discover the critical factors and strategies for reaping the full benefits of Agility.

Audience
This tutorial is intended for leaders and managers (at any organizational level) who are contemplating Agility, starting to implement it or have already used it for a few months. They are expected to have a basic understanding of the Agile premises, principles and practices, as well as an appreciation for the current issues their organizations face.

Benefits
Attendees will come away with a clear picture of the pitfalls and risks that accompany Agile adoption and a sense of how they apply in their situation. They will hear and share strategies and tactics for reducing or avoiding them. They will also discover the factors to turn Agile implementations to streamlined, high-performing operations and share with their fellow attendees, methods and approaches to attaining them.

Have you ever played the role of business owner and found yourself between “a rock and a hard place” of organizational politics when prioritizing backlog features? The Agile Stream approach negates those politics by dedicating development teams to organizational units and allowing those teams to continue working, iteration after iteration, as long as they continue delivering business value. The end result is a company constantly changing, improving and looking for the next highest business value it can create.