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Introduction to Agile - the software development paradox

ClarkeChing

Introduction to Agile Track
Scheduled Time: 
Monday 19 November 2007, 11:00 to 12:30
Room: 
Glaziers Hall, The Banqueting Hall
Session type: 
interactive presentation
Intended audience and experience level: 

Agile newbies … or anyone who’d like to understand more about how and why agile works.

Prerequisites: 

none

The software development industry is a paradox: on the one hand software is becoming increasingly pervasive and adds huge value to society, but on the other hand, our industry remains plagued by failure. Clarke will describe how a simple misunderstanding of quality principles during the 1970’s resulted in the widespread adoption of development methods - the waterfall model and it’s modern equivalent the “V” model - which are simply unsuitable for product and software development work. He will describe how Agile development is based on a more appropriate quality model, how Agile works, why Agile works, and - most importantly - why Agile is hard work.

There will be lots of examples and plenty of time for questions throughout and after the session.

Note: I’ve given this presentation at the last 2 xpdays, plus over 30 times during the last 5 years. It works best at 90 - 120 minutes.

YOU CAN FIND the powerpoint presentation here: http://www.clarkeching.com/files/xpday2007introductiontoagile.pdf

ClarkeChing

Clarke Ching is a Kiwi living in Scotland. He works as an independent consultant specialises in the application of Constraints Management and Commitment Centric Management to software development. He is currently writing a business novel called “RollingRocksDownhill”.