Writing on the Walls

Emmanuel Gaillot

Master Classes and Breakout Sessions Track
Scheduled Time: 
Tuesday 20 November 2007, 11:00 to 12:30
Room: 
Southwark Cathedral, The Chapter Room
Session type: 
simulation
Intended audience and experience level: 

Agile “beginners”

How is your project doing ? How long does it take to find out what’s going on? Where is the essential information? Is it hidden, squirreled away inside thousand-line code files, spreadsheets and Word documents ? Or is it “in your face”, shown where you can’t help but see it every day ? A successful project isn’t successful because the team makes no mistakes, or suffers no setbacks. Whether your project sinks or swims is determined not by circumstance but by the speed and quality of your team’s response. This tutorial presents simple techniques to make project status visible early and continuously, so a team can respond effectively. The techniques can be implemented with simple office tools: flipcharts, markers and yellow stickies.

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Emmanuel Gaillot

Emmanuel Gaillot is a software engineer and an experienced designer for theatre and dance. He has adapted XP practices and principles for the theatre, and he currently works on instilling performance art practices back into the field of software making. Emmanuel’s areas of expertise include self-organizing teams, software making and Extreme Programming. He is a founding member of the Coders’ Dojo in Paris. He works for Octo Technology as an XP coach.