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Crafting an Agile Adoption Strategy for your Environment

April 9th 2008 - 6:30pm
3100 Main St, Suite 900
Directions and Parking
Sponsored by PROS
Presented by Amr Elssamadisy

Speaker Materials:

The free book can be found here.
The presentation can be found here.

Abstract

Agile software development is steadily gaining adopters and helping teams and organizations improve the way they build software. At the same time there are many failed or ineffective teams practicing ‘Agile’. Being Agile is not the goal. Building better software that meets and exceeds the true needs of its users is. Your needs and environment are different than many others, so the Agile practices that will give you the most bang for your buck are different also. Join us to get an introduction to Agile software development and incremental techniques to start an Agile adoption strategy tailored to your environment.

Who should attend

This session will be of benefit to executives looking at ways to improve the value and focus of their development teams, customers of software development and IT organizations, and all members of software development teams.

Why

Have you heard of Agile development? Do you want to get beyond the hype and understand what Agile software development is and how it can help you and your organization build better software? Or, perhaps, you already know about Agile and are considering adopting one or more practices in your environment. Attend this session to get an introduction to Agile software development and how you can incrementally adopt the practices in your organization. This information session will:

Provide you with a brief understanding of some of the most common Agile practices such as Test Driven Development (TDD), Stand Up Meetings, and Retrospectives.
Enable you to tie the different Agile practices to your organization’s goals.
Give you an overview of several patterns of Agile practice adoption.
Allow you to learn how many others have successfully and unsuccessfully adopted and adapted Agile practices to meet their goals and fit their environment.
You will come away with a deeper understanding of what the different Agile practices can deliver and an initial plan for an Agile adoption strategy for your particular environment.

Location: PROS