Are you seeing and hearing about the benefits of agility in other organizations and wondering how to get there? The Agile Adoption stage will point the way. In many ways how an organization transitions to agile principles is unique, but in this stage we are looking for real-world stories of success and learning from which we can glean some pointers of what’s common and help organizations, divisions, teams and individuals move forward.
The Agile Manifesto is about balance, “while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more”. Transitioning to agility is about helping both experienced and new practitioners achieve that balance.
The Agile Adoption stage focuses on doing that by answering questions like these:
Taking a big bang approach to Agile is not a viable option for most organizations. Most successful adoptions of Agile are tailored to the strengths and limitations of the organization. This workshop will show you how to design a tailored roadmap to becoming Agile, despite the constraints around you. The roadmap includes 3 phases; Getting Ready, Piloting and Spreading Agile. If you’re just starting your agile transition or in a transition stage, this workshop will equip you with practical techniques and strategies to move from your existing process without starting from scratch.
| Presenter(s): | Ahmed Sidky , Greg Smith |
| Day and Time: | Monday, 09 August 2010, 09:00 - 12:30  |
| Location: | Australia 3 |
| Level: | Introductory |
The path an Agile roll-out should follow depends on the core culture of the corporation: control, competence, collaboration or cultivation. Irrespective of the specific culture, the Agile roll-out invariably tests cultural integration, wholeness and balance. It exposes inconsistencies between approach to customers versus approach toward other constituencies such as partners and employees. To create and capture lasting value, the Agile initiative must be linked to a coherent corporate culture. This workshop holds the details you need to know about how to forge this critical link.
| Presenter(s): | Israel Gat |
| Day and Time: | Monday, 09 August 2010, 09:00 - 12:30 |
| Location: | A-3 |
| Level: | Practicing |
When a breakthrough idea crosses the chasm it passes through a make-or-break stage of maturation. Without leadership, even the best ideas can evaporate into nothingness or ossify into dogmatism. Agile stands at just such a turning point now. The message has become fragmented, diluted, co-opted for profit, mischaracterized, abused, and attached as a label to just about anything. What can the community do to see that the proven value of agile principles and practices is not lost in the general chaos or surrendered to commercial interests that have a branded, packaged solution to sell?
| Presenter(s): | Dave Nicolette |
| Day and Time: | Monday, 09 August 2010, 13:30 - 17:00 |
| Location: | A-3 |
| Level: | Expert |
Understand why learning is the largest part of software development and why many Agile teams fail. If your practices do not enhance individual and team learning you are probably cargo-culting Agile (going through the motions without receiving the intended value). Agile is all about recognizing and responding to change effectively. Unfortunately many of us recognize problems and respond ineffectively because it is painful to face the truth that we are part of the problem. Attend to learn to understand the magnitude of this problem, how to recognize it, and how to begin to address it.
| Presenter(s): | Amr Elssamadisy |
| Day and Time: | Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
The Lean Pyramid presents a concept to help companies start their agile adoption strategy effectively. Reliably delivering valuable working software frequently is much more than just creating, estimating and prioritizing a backlog and developing it iteratively. In order to succeed with agile you have to understand the needed equilibrium of forces among strategy, management and engineering efforts. Through a deep explanation of the fundamental Lean principles, you will learn how they translate to agile software development in order to create a strong and successful culture in your company.
| Presenter(s): | Samuel Crescêncio , Adriano Campestrini |
| Day and Time: | Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Introductory |
Many enterprise agile transitions run into the same serious impediment - an inability to manage and govern in a way consistent with agile values. Many managers struggle to define their role in an agile organization. This thought-provoking session explores why conventional management approaches are fundamentally incompatible with self-organizing teams, and proposes specific steps for redefining the boss-worker relationship and evolving our organizational structures. We'll also tackle the issues of job classifications, performance evaluations and compensation in an agile environment.
| Presenter(s): | Paul Hodgetts |
| Day and Time: | Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
Come join the leading industry analysts as they discuss the latest trends and emerging best practices around Agile software development. Learn how the most successful software organizations are utilizing Agile to drive business performance. Find out how the latest innovations in Agile practices continue to mature as development organizations deploy Agile further across the enterprise.
| Presenter(s): | Dave West, David Norton , Melinda Ballou, Michael Azoff |
| Day and Time: | Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 17:15 - 18:15 |
| Location: | Southern Hemisphere IV |
| Level: | Practicing |
As more organizations adopt Agile practices they want to rapidly extend these benefits across their enterprise. However, agile adoption is challenging and teams can often start regressing backwards in the 'J-curve' effect after a few iterations. Using a skills maturity framework, organizations can assess where they are and accelerate their agile adoption avoiding the costs associated with the 'J-curve' effect. Participants will have an opportunity to practice by measuring their own agile maturity and working through some real-world problem scenarios with their fellow participants.
| Presenter(s): | Bryan Campbell , Robbie Mac Iver |
| Day and Time: | Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 09:00 - 10:30 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
You've discovered agile and are excited! You are a leader within your team or company. Your next question is "How do I ignite this fire and get agile to take root in my organization?" After experiencing two extreme opposite transitions, I will tell the story of these approaches along with their successes, failures, and lessons learned. One transition occurred in a regulated global 50 company including offshore teams which dove headfirst into Scrum and XP within 3 months. The second is a stealth transition in a small .com startup company that is still ongoing after 3 years.
| Presenter(s): | Kevin Schlabach |
| Day and Time: | Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Location: | Asia 2 |
| Level: | Introductory |
Like many other large-scale organizations, we have engaged in organizational transformation by using and adapting recognized change management principles. While relying on John Kotter’s eight essential principles led to some dramatic successes, we found that our own inconsistencies in how we engaged stakeholders and demonstrated short-term wins impacted the level of success. In this session, we will discuss how Scrum complements the eight steps of transformation, provide practical guidance in how to leverage Scrum and provide project examples that demonstrated the value of the integration.
| Presenter(s): | Elizabeth Woodward , Helen McKinstry |
| Day and Time: | Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
Do you remember the energy from the early XP/Agile conferences? Want this same energy in your local community or inside your company? Don't wait for someone else to do it - begin a roundtable today. Started by Alistair Cockburn, the Salt Lake Agile Roundtable over 13 years has produced a thriving local Agile community, strong Agile teams at local companies, major Agile conferences, and two Gordon Pask award winners. In this session, you'll see and try the practices that work for us. You'll experience the unique feel of our user group and leave ready to start or re-energize your community.
| Presenter(s): | Zhon Johansen , Kay Johansen |
| Day and Time: | Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
Laws are general, concrete but not comprehensive. Thus a judge must interpret it for every trial. Judges interpret by referring both to cases and the spirit of the law. Scrum has a clear and concise definition, but in order to use it in real life we need to interpret it depending on the context. There's the equivalent to case law: case studies and good practices. We'll try to grasp the often forgotten spirit that lives and breathes at the core of any healthy Scrum story. Via interactive activities we'll take a sip of the spirit, absorbing with our souls and bodies the essence of agility.
| Presenter(s): | Alan Cyment |
| Day and Time: | Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
ScrumMasters for distributed teams need help. As more corporations offshore/nearshore their development efforts, ScrumMasters bear the burden of facilitating distributed Scrum or Agile without being prepared for its unique challenges. While ScrumMaster Certifications and local user groups do provide guidance, they are often focused on collocated scenarios. In this talk, I will convey my personal experiences of being a ScrumMaster for geographically distributed teams and explain what steps you can take to be successful.
| Presenter(s): | David Bland |
| Day and Time: | Thursday, 12 August 2010, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Introductory |
A common approach to help get clients started with Agile is to undertake a readiness assessment to: 1. Understand challenges and goals 2. Understand the environment and technical practices 3. Decide what techniques (Scrum, Kanban, collocation, etc) might be suitable 4. Build a plan with them of what a transition to Agile might look like Unfortunately there is very little written about how to go about this. Hence, this knowledge-sharing workshop to define this better. The workshop involves active participation so come ready to share your experiences and learn from others.
| Presenter(s): | Gerry Kirk , Michael Sahota |
| Day and Time: | Thursday, 12 August 2010, 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Expert |
There's a lot of buzz on Kanban right now in the agile software development community. Since Scrum has become quite mainstream now, a common question is "so what is Kanban, and how does it compare to Scrum?" Where do they complement each other? Are there any potential conflicts? Can an organization combine these techniques? The purpose of this session is to clarify Kanban and Scrum by comparing them, so you can figure out how these may come to use in your environment. Based on the book [Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both](http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook)
| Presenter(s): | Henrik Kniberg |
| Day and Time: | Thursday, 12 August 2010, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Location: | A-1 |
| Level: | Practicing |
