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Implementing Agile at a Team Level - Disciplines of Flow from Rhythm and Test to Training and Tools

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Written by Patrick Egan   
Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:00

Implementing Agile at a Team Level - Disciplines of Flow from Rhythm and Test to Training and Tools

Part One of a Three Part Agile Business Webcast Series


 Jean Tabaka Patrick Egan

Broadcast Date: June 05, 2007
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EST -- 1700 GMT

Speaker:
Jean Tabaka, Agile Coach, Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and Certified Professional Facilitator for Rally Software
Moderator
Patrick Egan, Publisher - Agile Journal

 

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Organizations eager to take advantage of the benefits touted by Agilists may inappropriately attempt an all or nothing-at-all, top-down approach to Agile adoption. However, experience has shown that successful Agile adoptions must always begin at the team level and must be guided by a clear, step-wise approach. In this view of both Agile maturity and scaling, Jean borrows from the Lean Thinking principles of attaining total value delivery: perfect your ability to maintain Flow of value, learn to use the principle of Pull in order to deliver even more value, and embrace an organizational imperative to Innovate so that value is forever redefined and re-emerging.

With this in mind, Agile adoption at the team level concentrates on those Agile guidelines that emphasize Flow:

  • Time-boxed, rhythm of regular flow of value
  • Prioritized delivery of value
  • Compact teams that define, build, test and accept value in the time box
  • High accessibility to the owner of the value (product owner and customer)
  • Burning visibility into the daily delivery of value
  • Inspect and adapt tools that help teams respond to change
  • Mentorship by an experienced Agile coach

All of these practices of team Flow benefit from tooling that sets the entire Agile development and delivery management in motion as they move to mature from Flow practices to multi-team Pull and Innovate approaches.

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Part 2 - Five Levels of Agile Planning
Date: Tuesday June 12 - 10 am Pacific - 1 pm Eastern 1700 GMT
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Part 3 -Tooling in an Agile Environment and the HP Case Study
Date: Tuesday June 19 - 10 am Pacific - 1 pm Eastern 1700 GMT
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About the Presenters:

Jean Tabaka

Jean Tabaka has more than 25 years of programming, software project management, and methodology consulting, specializing in Agile software development approaches since 1999. She has worked in a variety of software organizations and has shepherded teams, programs, and organizations in their successful transition to Agile software development. Jean is a Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer, a frequent speaker at software industry events, and the author of “Collaboration Explained” in the Addison-Wesley Agile Software Development Series. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Patrick Egan

Patrick Egan is the founder of CM Crossroads and Editor-in-Chief for the Configuration Management Journal. With over 20 years experience in the software industry in both development and product management, he brings an understanding of the needs of both the industry as well as the users of configuration management tools. Prior to CM Crossroads, Mr. Egan held technical and executive management positions with fortune 500 organizations and software vendors such as Allstate Insurance, the LEGENT Corporation, SERENA Software, New Dimensions, PLATINUM Technology, Catalyst Systems and Computer Associates. Mr. Egan received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago.

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From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps companies succeed with Agile software development. Rally's family of Agile life cycle management products give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations, and its world-renowned coaching services help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts. Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally maps an incremental road to Agile adoption for thousands of subscribers from leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

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