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Why Agile Projects Fail

Joseph Pelrine and jiri.lundak

Advanced Sessions Track
Scheduled Time: 
Tuesday 20 November 2007, 11:00 to 12:30
Room: 
Glaziers Hall, The River Room
Session type: 
interactive presentation
Intended audience and experience level: 

Intended for any and all who’ve had success or failure with Agile techniques.

Agile projects fail. All the semantic manouvering around the definition of “failure” still can’t hide the fact that some Agile projects do “crash & burn”. Why does this happen, how can we recognize it, and what can we do to prevent this from happening? The more popular Agile methods become, the more we as a community will have to address, and find answers for, these problems.

This talk will present a taxonomy of Agile project failure modes and causes, and will present a forum for attendees to share their experiences, be they failure, or success.

Joseph Pelrine

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jiri.lundak

I am working for Löwenfels Partner in central Switzerland, were I am responsible for the software development process, mainly using a combination of Scrum and XP practices. I still write (mostly Java) code though as an architect (for 20+ years now).

Since 1999, when I heard Kent Beck have a provocative talk advocating something strange called XP at the OOP conference in Munich, I was fascinated by a development style, that put people back at the center of the process.

I have spoken at conferences like XPDay Germany, SET Zurich or JAX Germany and published articles on Agile pitfalls mostly in German language.