Agile 2011 Conference Interviews

Published December 7th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Hear from some of the leading Agilists in these impromptu interviews conducted by Todd Little, Agile2011 Conference Chair, during a quick spin through Open Jam. Follow Todd as he discusses various Agile topics with Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Arie van Bennekum, Esther Derby and Alan Shalloway.

Watch this video on http://www.agilealliance.org/resources/learning-center/open-jam-interviews

What Agile can Learn from Open Source

Published November 28th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This presentation looks at distributed teams, team roles, building teams, planning releases, managing releases, testing releases and scaling to big projects. Everyone should get some new ideas inspired by the Open Source movement that they can use in their own projects. Read more

Why Your Agile Roll-Out is Failing

Published November 23rd, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

You read the books. You went to the talks. You even paid for the 3 day course. Then you rolled out Agile across the organization. What could possibly go wrong? Why, after 18 months, are you not seeing the better-faster-cheaper results they guaranteed you? And where can you get your money back? Rather than paying for yet another Agile consultant to come in and tell you how you’re doing it all wrong, watch Dan’s talk about the most common failure modes he encounters in Agile adoption.

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Video Producer: JFokus Conference

What Does it Take to be an Agile Company?

Published November 10th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Everyone wants to be Agile, or so it seems. But what does that mean? What does the Agile company do that others don’t? There is more to being an Agile company than doing Scrum. In this talk Allan Kelly considers what it means to be Agile and what you need to do to be an Agile company, rather than a company which just follows an Agile method. He will outline the three different ways we use the word “Agile” – Agile methods, Agile Toolkit and the state of Agile. In doing so he will discuss customers, project design, strategy and portfolio management and how these need to work together to achieve Agility.

Watch this video on http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-scrum/agile-companies

Agile Business Analyst

Published November 8th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

A short video about business in an Agile context. Analysis is only half the job; the other half is design. The agile business analyst gathers requirements and also designs solutions that deliver business value.

Video Producer: http://michaelhugos.com/

What’s Next in Continuous Integration?

Published November 4th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Hudson who is now working for CloudBees, discusses the future of Continuous Integration and Jenkins as they will be influenced by virtualization, cloud computing, DVCS and analysis software.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Whats-Next-in-Continuous-Integration

Scrum Roles and Responsibilities

Published November 3rd, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

This short video discusses the three roles of Scrum: the ScrumMaster, the Team and the Product Owner.

Video Producer: http://scrumrevealed.com/

The Scrum Framework

Published October 25th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Agile coaches need to be able to teach the agile framework their teams will use in 10 minutes or less. No joking. Why? Because they will have to teach it hundreds of times. Every time a new team member joins. Every time a manager stands in the team’s way. And many more times besides. This video shows how Lyssa Adkins teaches the Scrum framework. Use her example as a starting point and get good at delivering your own version. Lyssa is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, a book created for agile coaches who are ready help their teams to go beyond the mechanics of agile to produce astonishing results.

Video Producer: Lyssa Adkins

Scrum and KanBan Combined

Published October 14th, 2011 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video shows how a company use a Scrum and KanBan combination. Rob van Lanen, development manager at PAT, explains how they use Scrum for development work in the sprints, but use KanBan to deal with issues with released software in the field. Their helpdesk prioritises the issues and the team uses the KanBan board to solve these issues as fast as possible. A good example of how a team has found their best way of working, by inspecting and adapting.

Evolutionary Design Illustrated

Published October 13th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

In an agile environment, programmers must deliver working software in the first iteration. Requirements may change at any time, so there’s no way to design the software in advance. Instead, you must design your software based on its current needs, and evolve the software design as the requirements change. This process is called evolutionary design or continuous design, or iterative and incremental design. Read more


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