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2. Who? @SleepyFox a.k.a. Nigel Runnels-Moss Software Craftsman Unrepentant geek 35 years programming stuff @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 3. RUPThursday, 8 December 2011 4. Thursday, 8 December 2011 5. Structure Agile today What went wrong Development of methodologies Reveal: the Next Big Thing! @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 6. Agile today@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 7. Agile has crossed the chasm@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 8. Exhibit A.Thursday, 8 December 2011 9. Exhibit B.Thursday, 8 December 2011 10. Exhibit C.Thursday, 8 December 2011 11. Exhibit D.Thursday, 8 December 2011 12. Exhibit E.Thursday, 8 December 2011 13. Were all Agile! @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 14. Poll: Agile failures How many people in the room have: Seen bad customer reactions to talk or mentions of Agile/Scrum/...? Heard We tried Agile/Scrum/... and it didnt work? Experienced organisations that had policies against Agile practices?@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 15. Agile ________ Agile Testing Agile Modelling Agile Project Management Agile Transformation Agile Business Intelligence Agile Portfolio Management Agile Government 1400+ books on Agile on Amazon @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 16. What does Agile mean? Fast Good Better Cheaper Reactive Responsive to change Lightweight? @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 17. Agile? People conate concepts: Agile methodologies Agile principles or values Agile tools or techniques Linguistic meanings of Agile@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 18. Wide-scale backlash 75% of organizations do not get the benets they expect. Ken Schwaber, founder of Scrum @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 19. Wide-scale backlash 60% of CSM graduates felt bad about certication Scott Ambler survey Only 1% of leaninitiatives meet theirgoals. Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way Agile development is an evangelical fad ill- suited to government IT. corporate IT lawyer Alistair Maughan, Computer Weekly Agile Software Is A Cop-Out Mike Gualtieri, Forrester Research @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 20. Why is Agile failing?Thursday, 8 December 2011 21. Olympic training diet Agile @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 22. Lazy AgileThursday, 8 December 2011 23. Cargo Cult Agile @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 24. Timeline of methodologies@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 25. The Next Big Thing! @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 26. Adoption curve @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 27. Development of religious movementsDisciplesScriptureReformationVision HeresyDogma @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 28. Hes not the Messiah!@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 29. What Agile really means Individuals and interactionsProcesses and tools Working software Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration Contract negotiation Responding to changeFollowing a plan @sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 30. Philosophy, not methodologyForget processes Learn principlesForget methodology Learn contextForget dogmaLearn values@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 31. Metaprogramming@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 32. Metaprogramming@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 33. Metaprogramming@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 34. The Tao of ProgrammingThursday, 8 December 2011 35. My new book@sleepyfox for sourcesenseThursday, 8 December 2011 36. The Next Big Thing?The sleepermust awakenThursday, 8 December 2011 37. Thank you@sleepyfox on Twittercreativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0Thursday, 8 December 2011