We Didn't Quite Get It
Add to calendarWhat do you get when two developers try to implement agile without having experienced it? A 90 minute session on all the mistakes that were made.
What can you do to avoid the same fate? We needed an agile coach, but want to help you do without. We’ll present techniques you can use immediately.
In this session, we examine the problems created by implementing an agile process incompletely and describe solutions to those problems. We offer the perspective of developers who learned what commitment really means and that there’s more to agile than TDD and small releases.
We use the XP processes as a starting point for the presentation. Although we are not strictly an XP shop, the practices provide a common context to refer to.
Within the practices, we discuss what we were doing, what we discovered we didn’t fully understand, and how an experienced coach helped us improve.
A rough (and incomplete) listing of topics is available at http://brianhv.org/temp/agilenotes/
- Participants will learn about process smells from the perspective of the developers trying to lead agile adoption.
- Participants will learn concrete solutions to the problems those smells indicated.
- Participants will learn how our perception of agile was skewed by reading about it without trying it.