Tuning And Improving Your Agility
May 13, 2010
If you are using agile methods and you are looking for new ideas and next steps, this one day course held by David Hussman will pump you up. Whether your agility is flourishing or challenged, you will leave with a collection of tools for tuning and evolving your agility. Participants will review their existing skills and define specific ideas for improvement. From building community to defining products to promoting development agility, hands on exercises engage people to rethink existing habits and learn new techniques.
David has coached pragmatic adoption of agile methods for hundreds of companies around the world. He has been creating software for many years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. You can find out more about David here: http://openagile.ro/speakers/davidhussman/
Objectives (tools and techniques participants will learn)
- Techniques for assessing and improving your existing processes
- The power of test driving more than just coding (e.g. test driving user stories)
- Various newly emerging agile practices
- The importance of connecting with other projects (agile or not) in planning and more
- Tools for growing your project (multiple team / program development)
- Monitoring the indicators helpful in knowing when to add, change, drop various practices
Audience (who will benefit)
Anyone working who has been using agile methods for more than 4 iterations will benefit from this course: scrum masters, developers, product owners, testers, managers, or anyone else who is part of an agile community using agile methods like Scrum – XP – Lean. As experience is the best teach, the course draws on the experience of the participants to make the course richer and more meaningful.
Course Outline (what we will do)
One Day Course: Creative introductions (e.g. who are you as an agilist); Discussion and assessment of current practices and their success; Small group exercise around improving existing / common agile practices. Discussion and exercises around leading and promoting agility; Intro to advanced agility and how the ideas will work or challenge your project; Presentation of scaling agility and connecting with other projects/delivery teams; Exercises for distributed communities and variations on tracking and planning.
Registration Details
- Dates: May 13, 2010; starting hour: 8:30 am (registration and welcome coffee)
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Price (early bird): 290 Euro by 22 April 2010
- Price (nominal): 350 Euro starting 23 April 2010
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- If you are an active member of Agile Romania community (www.agileworks.ro) please ask about the special price.
- You get a 10% discount if you participate at the OpenAgile Romania 2010 (www.openagile.ro) conference. The discount can increase if you participate in another class in May - please ask for details.
- Please ask about the special price for groups.
- Please note that VAT is added to the base price.
For registration fill in and sign the Registration Form (RO, EN ) and send it by email at office@mozaicworks.com.