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Distributed operations, open source tools, mashups, and SaaS are breaking down the traditional boundaries between vendor-supplied and custom-developed software. It’s now possible – if not necessary – to integrate development and run-time activities onto a seamless distributed platform. During this vendor talk, Charlie Rudd, President and CEO of SolutionsIQ, will demonstrate key elements of SolutionsIQ’s Agile development platform: • Mashups of SaaS and open source tools for development and continuous integration

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.

This session is for any Agile coach or leader who is facing challenges and looking for creative ways for facing them.

In this practical session we hope to do two things. First, mine some of the hardest, real-world problems that attending Scrum Masters and other Agile Leaders have faced within their teams. We’ll do this by breaking into teams and having each team first brainstorm a list of challenges and then dot-vote on what they think is the toughest problem.

At a Glance
This session provides ideas and approaches on how to promote a culture of continuous improvement and perpetual learning among teams of software developers in a corporate setting. It provides specific examples of approaches that have been successful at large companies such as Travelers Insurance and Google, focusing not only on how to spread knowledge, but also on how to evaluate progress and measure success. It also presents some lessons learned, and looks to the audience to share their thoughts and experience on where to go from here.