For me, the final session of Dr. Dobb’s Architecture and Design World was ‘SOA Challenges: An Open Source Case Study’ by Sonya Lowry and Evan Deaubl. Evan talked about the technical challenges. Sonya talked about the leadership challenges on the project, and how she used agile methods to over come them. Sonya shared these:
“It’s agile, not ad-hoc!”
“You need to make agile fit your team, not make your team fit an agile book.”
Indeed.
Cheers,
Monday evening more that 40 people turned up at a ‘Birds of a Feather’ gathering to consider “What makes agile projects succeed (or Fail)?” as part of Dr. Dobb’s Architecture and Design World in Chicago. In 90 minutes the group generated, discussed, and ranked about 40 different answers to this question, while enjoying some pizza and beverages.
Below, I’m listing all of the ideas as ranked by the group. I’ll elaborate on a few of the ideas that the group focused on. I’ll also provide links to the results from other groups who have considered the same question.
Well, maybe not famous, but at least I made it to YouTube, and with all of my clothes on! This video of the Chicago Scrum Gathering includes some footage of my workshop What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?. It starts 50 seconds in, with the title “The Essence of Scrum Session.” If you’re really bored, feel free to play ‘Find Chris’; somehow my mug and pony tail managed to make several other appearances.
Greetings,
I’ll be facilitating What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? at Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World 2008. They have given me the following discount code, worth $100 off the VIP Pass, which you can use when you register. The discount code is: 8ASPK
You can register here.
Cheers,
Greetings,
This is the first of a two sessions that I facilitated at Agile Coach Camp. A small group of agile coaches, including Ron Jefferies came together on Saturday to consider the question “What makes agile teams succeed (or Fail)?” Using the Group Wisdom Without Groupthink process, we generated, discussed, and ranked about a dozen ideas.
Greetings!
I’m back home, in the San Francisco Bay Area, after a couple of weeks on the road. I went to Chicago for the Scrum Gathering, where I presented Agile 101, and What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? I also facilitated a couple of open space sessions. Notes from one of those, Let’s Practice Agile Estimation, can be found here on the Agile Alliance Wiki.
Greetings from the 2008 Chicago Scrum Gathering! On Monday I led two sessions: Agile 101, and What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? I also led a session on agile estimation in the open space portion of the conference.
Almost 50 people gathered to consider the question: What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)? In under an hour and a half, we generated and ranked about 50 ideas. Here, in order, are the things that this group felt had the biggest impact on the success of the agile projects that they have been involved with. You can compare this list with generated by previous groups here, here, and here.
Greetings from the 2008 Scum Gathering!
At 9:00 AM this morning I was surprised to see about 25 more-or-less bright shinny faces in the room for Agile 101. I was even more surprised as people continued to trickle in until the room, setup for 50, was at capacity. Wow!
Many thanks to all who came out and participated.
Cheers,
Last Saturday, I led two sessions at P-Camp. The first was “Agile 101”, and you can read about how that went here. The second session was “Why do Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?” In this session, the participants shared over 20 practices that they felt were key to the success of their past agile projects. Here we are discussing an idea.