An introduction to Agile Through the Theory of Constraints
Add to calendarAgile has all these weird, expensive-looking practices: pair programming, test-driven development, regular planning meetings, moving the programmers and business people closer together, focusing people on a single project, multi-disciplinary teams. We can’t afford to go agile!
In this session, J. B. Rainsberger introduces agile practices by relating them to core business matters: compounding early earned value and reducing unnecessary costs. Learn why practice and learning are really profit centers. Maybe you can’t afford not to go agile!
This is a straight chalk talk. Me, a whiteboard, a marker, an audience, and intermittent Q&A. You can find an excerpt from this presentation at XP Day Manhattan 2007 at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viezJLrFRQE
It’s different every time, and it works every time. First presented in May 2005 at the XP/Agile Toronto user group.
- Understand how agile practices relate directly to core business concerns
- Feel more comfortable with agile practices as an investment, rather than a sunk cost
- Understand how to present agile practices in a compelling way to business people
- See a more concrete, relevant justification for agile practices than “you’ll like it, and people will feel better”
