Agile in a Nutshell

Guest Speaker

Jonathan Rasmusson, Agile Coach & Consultant, Rasmusson Software Consulting

Date
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Description
If you’ve been doing Waterfall delivery most of your career - agile can be down right scary.
- Changing requirements
- Adaptive planning
- Iterative development
- Time boxed delivery

All intimidating things for managers and organizations used to doing things sequentially in discrete phases one stage at a time. Most people get intellectually what agile is (much of it they already do). What isn’t so obvious is how to explain it in simple terms to others and how waterfall shops can consider transitioning.

In this introductory presentation, we will look at agile in simple terms explaining:

Why / how we got here?
Agile in a nutshell
Agile in concrete terms
Agile in people terms
Myths about agile
What you can expect from working on an agile team
Which agile method is right for me?
Three steps you can take towards agility today
About the Speaker

Jonathan is a software professional with a passion of agile software delivery. As a former consultant at ThoughtWorks, Jonathan got to cut his teeth early on agile methods like XP and Scrum, while working for companies like British Petroleum, Microsoft, and TransCanada Pipelines.

As the co-founder of a local startup, Jonathan got to see first hand how agile methods could be adapted to work at web 2.0 startups. Currently serving at Shaw as a practice lead, Jonathan is keen on helping Shaw discover better ways to produce production ready software for their customers.

Presentation Slides
Event sponsored by
MKS