Agile Development Practices - Technical Presentations

Agile Development Practices 2008 Technical Presentations

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Project Success After a 25% Budget Cut: Using Agile to Increase Value in Lean Times Richard Leavitt, Rally Software & Michael Mah, QSM Associates The proof is now in that going Agile is the only way to get critical, revenue generating applications to market faster and leaner. This presentation documents the financial returns Agile project teams are experiencing over their traditional counterparts and provides a business case toolkit for senior executives evaluating Agile practices. In May 2008, Rally commissioned third-party research firm, QSM Associates, to benchmark 29 Agile development projects against QSMA's database of 7,500 software projects. The study compared the performance of Agile development projects against plan-based and waterfall industry averages for time-to-market, productivity and quality. Results of the study will be discussed so project teams can understand the financial impact Agile practices can have in their organizations, and what they can do to deliver increased value in difficult economic times. This presentation also describes lessons learned and how the studied companies implemented Agile in their enterprise, with team sizes ranging from 10 to 1,000.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Overcoming Technology Roadblocks Goncalo Gaiolas, OutSystems The road traveled for Agile projects is often treated like a freeway with no marked lanes. As a result, projects crash and some IT drivers refuse to take the Agile freeway ever again. However, when used properly the benefits Agile methods are a fuel-efficient way to create user driven applications. In our session, we present technical best practices for navigating the Agile freeway and share the rules of the road for overcoming the main roadblocks faced by IT teams when steering application projects using Agile methodologies. Technology vs. Methodology – Why can’t they get along? o Common Pitfalls of Traditional Tools After the Pilot Project – Why does your second Agile project fail? o Addressing the Realities of Agile Adoption Delivering Business Applications built for Continuous Change – What are the real needs of Agile? o Agile is more than a methodology
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Agile Transformation on The Front Lines Bryan Stallings & , Christian Jensen SolutionsIQ, Inc. Are your Agile teams successful? Are you ready to go to the next level? Implementing Agile throughout an entire organization can bring up a new slate of challenges. This presentation discusses enterprise-wide Agile transformation and integration within the culture of your organization—how to go from having just a few Agile teams to Agile being the standard adopted mode of operation.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:45-1:45 p.m.

Agile Development and Test Automation Joachim Herschmann, Borland Software Key aspects of testing The role of testing in an agile world Examples of integrations between commercial test automation tools and open source testing frameworks
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:45PM – 3:45 p.m.

Empowering Agile Teams with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz Foundation Bernard Coyne, IBM Rational Team Concert Developing software in a team is much like playing an instrument in a band. Both require a balance of team collaboration and solo expertise. A goal of Rational Team Concert (RTC) is to provide agile teams with a supportive and flexible stage for developing software. In this presentation we explore how RTC supports agile teams distributed across the hall or around the world. We show how teams can plan and execute agile iterations, set up individual and team dashboards, and make in-flight adjustments to team process. Finally, we showcase the collaborative capabilities that help build team cohesion. Our presentation will conclude with a demo of Rational Team Concert.	IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Less is More: Maximizing team throughput in a lean economy *Adam Monago, ThoughtWorks* Difficult times present challenging circumstances for even the most disciplined of development teams. Changing market conditions, can often put scope and budget constraints in play that tempt teams to sacrifice proven practices for short-term results. Quality and customer satisfaction should not be the first casualties of the budget crunch. There is a path for teams to do less by building only what customers need and keeping their feedback loops tight enough to respond to change. ThoughtWorks believes that teams need to be supported with the tools that enable them to keep their process as lean as possible, while not sacrificing the quality and performance they need.