Posters or Billboards containing only Facebook and Twitter icons, without their URL or handle. #Failhttp://t.co/UyATEgjH3 hours ago
@Kurt_Haeusler Fair enough. I guess what matters to me is the intention of the person more than the speaker. But I can see a bias kicking in 6 hours ago
The first part covers the period from 2004 to 2006 when Sidd was working with a startup based out of Singapore. He explains how we moved from doing ad-hoc development to adopting Scrum. Adopting Scrum was a big improvement over our previous ad-hoc approach but Scrum also led them to make some classic mistakes (from a lean point of view).
The second part covers the period from 2007 to 2009 when Sidd started his own company in India. The company was started with Scrum right from the beginning. He explains how we evolved from vanilla Scrum to Lean and Kanban.
At the Agile Mumbai 2010, Mahesh Baxi takes you through an exciting journey of key lessons learned from one of the largest agile projects executed at ThoughtWorks which will cover:
Key agile principles
What challenges comes along with the scale of up to 200+ people with added complexity of distributed location
How is it different from other agile projects in terms of planning ahead, release plans, scope management, infrastructure
Communication – The most important ingredient for large scale agile projects to be successful
What kind of team structure would work best?
How to stay focused? How to identify bottlenecks and work through them
At the Agile Bengaluru 2010 conference, Jann Thomas discusses and identifies ways in which agile enablers can facilitate the transition to Agile practices. She covered basic Agile practices as well as techniques for introducing them to the software delivery team. She also presents common software delivery problems and the Agile path to solutions.
How to apply Theory of Constraint [ToC] to identify the bottlenecks or issues the teams are facing during their agile adoption?
Once we identify the bottleneck, how we delivered knowledge and experience to the teams, just in time to apply that knowledge to eliminate the bottleneck, using the Just-In-Time practice concept?
David starts off saying “Agile communities know that the sooner they deliver a working product the sooner they can determine the value it provides. Yet while the ability to deliver frequently is valuable, if you don’t know where you are going, it is easy to iteratively not get there.”
In this talk David RI-examines the balance of discovery and delivery techniques in use by agile communities today. He specifically, discusses how can design thinking help agile communities discover deeper product value before iterative delivery begins. Also, after the first iteration, how can agile communities use design tools to keep the users alive and well and part of every story, acceptance tests, and iteration of development and delivery.
Jeff Patton’s Keynote at Agile Mumbai 2010 Conference titled: “Outside the Code – Using Agile Ideas to Drive Product Success“. This short talk focuses on the techniques we use outside the software to collaborate and plan with our customers and users. You’ll learn about concepts and techniques for effectively talking about and representing your product ideas, for understanding the people who use your software, and how to leverage iterative and incremental development to learn faster and reduce risk.
Peer-to-peer Learning and Exploration in a Collaborative Setting for Agile Coaches. For the first time in India an all open space event targeted at Agile Coaches.
In this, zero powerpoint, all coding presentation, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam will use TDD to drive the design and implementation of a multithreaded code. Along the way we will hit some road blocks, and learn techniques and practices that can break the barriers. If you have confronted the issue or have wondered about it, this presentation is for you
The Goal of the conference was to challenge the process dogma, provide food for thought for creative problem solving and help us take the art-of-software-development to the next level. This year, the focus of Agile India 2010 was on real Agile practitioners who’ve “been there, done that and wanted to explore the future of Agile.” Targeted at Agile enthusiasts, researchers and educators, Agile India 2010 offered an ideal platform for attendees to network and learn about the latest research and cutting-edge Agile industry practices directly from the experts through talks, hands-on technical sessions, workshops, competitions and tutorials.
The conference featured 26 recognized National and International speakers, over 250 enthusiastic participants from over 75 companies, 7 Keynote talks, 10 Workshops/Tutorials, 5 Product Demos, 7 Experience Report, 25+ Lightning talks and a thrilling Programming with the Stars competition.
Like every year the conference participants were gifted with a Conference T-Shirt and a carefully selected book as a souvenir. This year the participants had a choice between 3 books:
Apprenticeship Patterns
The Art of Lean Software Development
The Productive Programmer
ASCI is proud to partner with our sponsors, BNP Paribas, ThoughtWorks and Xebia and our Mumbai host Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering to bring this conference to you. Our sponsors, also corporate members of ASCI, have been long-term supporters and promoters of Agile Software Development methods globally. A special thanks to Industrial Logic for providing the support to organize this event possible. Also a big thanks to our supporters, Directi, Binary Essentials and Agile Alliance.
Some of the highlights of Agile India 2010 included “Programming with the Stars” – a fun post-lunch segment each day where “ordinary” conference attendees paired with legendary developers from top companies around India, who have attained a high degree of mastery in Agile development. The duos perform live on stage in front of a panel of judges, David Hussman, J. B. Rainsberger and Jeff Patton. PWTS lived up to its expectations by being both entertaining and educational. Rajesh & Amit were rated as the best pair in Mumbai. While Bhavin and Mukesh won the best pair title in Bengaluru.
The conference also featured over 25 lightning talks where participants shared their thoughtful, unique idea about Agile in under 3 minutes.
Also this year the conference tried to be as environmental friendly as much as possible. Some of the steps taken at the conference were:
Skipped handing out printed material like conference program, printed handouts & slides (except for what the conference sponsor handed over).
Skipped handing over notepads & pens. Another big source of wastage. Very few people take notes and they usually carry their own.
Lunch and snacks were served in washable plates & steel spoons. Usually conferences use throwaway plates and plastic spoons.
For drinking tea, coffee & juice, we requested the conference participants to carry their own mugs & water bottles.
Conserving Electricity: We tried to switch off projectors and Air Conditioners when ever possible.
To back all of this, both locations had an enlightening talk from Captain Planet (aka Saurabh Arora) showing the effect of global warming and how we can take small steps everyday to avoid further worsening the situation.
Like every Agile India conference in the past, this conference left delegates coming away with new ideas on how to improve their software development process by applying Agile practices to development and delivery. All the conference slides are available from the conference program page on our site www.agileindia.org/agileindia2010.
