Playing Agile Snakes and Ladders - Douglas Talbot

As an Agile Coach and Software Development Manager Douglas has been part of efforts as a permanent employee in a large organisation to introduce Agile practices. This effort ran for 3 years and over many projects with a widely varying set of results. There have, inevitably, been many successes where his teams climbed ladders of progress and other times where they rolled the dice and the snakes got them - problems were encountered, needing resolution. This talk covers the lessons of the snakes and ladders they caught during those years. Douglas is also halfway through managing and coaching a large program of work at a new organisation where he has chosen management and coaching practices to use from those previous experiences, and will cover current progress, issues and successes with the new team. His snakes and ladders experience will cover :       Using BAs in agile projects       Estimation issues encountered       Iteration zero       Interfacing with non agile release practices       Provisioning development environments       "Selling" agile to early adoptersDesigncontrol       Introducing code review, TDD,pairing       Stories and unplanned tasks      

Our speaker - Douglas Talbot

Douglas Talbot has been working inthe Wellington I.T. scene for the last 16 years after completing a degree inComputer Science at Victoria Uni. He has been a bit of a generalist having been a VMS operator, C programmer, BA, and DBA. For the last 5 years he has managed IT teams of various types, introducing Agile principles, and is currently Manager Migration Projects at Metservice running a large program of work with Agile teams.