Deep Agile

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Introduction to Agile Development

When:

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:00am

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Lecturer(s):

Jeff Sutherland, Ron Jeffries, Jay Conne (moderator)

What has been your experience with software projects? Have you generally been successful? Or do most projects fail to meet predictions for time, cost or functionality? To be blunt, do your projects deliver solid business value and happy and productive users?

This seminar is designed for anyone who is responsible for developing and delivering software products and projects. It is especially valuable for teams who have mastered their languages, tools and technology and now know that their greatest need is to work together effectively, to succeed "one step at a time", and to take an approach that allows them to succeed in the face of changing requirements and demands.

Agile, Lean and Extreme: In the late 1990's several methodologies began to get increasing public attention. Each had a different combination of old ideas, new ideas, and transmuted old ideas. But they all emphasized close collaboration between the programmer team and business experts; face-to-face communication (as more efficient than written documentation); frequent delivery of new deployable business value; tight, self-organizing teams; and ways to craft the code and the team such that the inevitable requirements churn was not a crisis. In this seminar leading experts in Agile Development will show how to transform your software development process, reliably deliver applications that meet the users' needs, and consistently deliver successful projects on schedule.

Jeff Sutherland

Jeff has been CTO/VP of Engineering or VP of Object Technology a nine software companies. He conceived Scrum Agile development process in four of them and has implemented it company wide in the other five.

He is well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process, which influenced the design of the other leading Agile processes.

He is currently doing consulting engagements for Scrum training, certification, assessment and team motivation in the US, Europe and Latin America.

Ron Jeffries

Ron is author of Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, senior author of Extreme Programming Installed, and was the on-site XP coach for the original Extreme Programming project. Ron has been involved with Extreme Programming for over five years, presenting numerous talks and publishing papers on the topic.
Proprietor of www.XProgramming.com, a well known source of XP information, Ron was one of the creators of, and a featured instructor in, Object Mentor’s popular XP Immersion course.

Jay Conne

Jay is a Lean/Agile Coach, Trainer and Certified ScrumMaster-Practicing. His consulting practice focuses on integrating techniques from Scrum, XP, Lean and Thomsett’s project discovery approach.

He has a particular interest in the ethical, epistemological and psychological factors that inform Agile principles and practices.

Jay Conne

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