The meeting
topic: Experience Report - Agile Insights from the Trenches
In
theory agile practices sound straight forward and easily understood. In
the real world, agile practices involve lots of effort, reflection and
discussion to make them useful. Even then success can be
sketchy. Like any other skill set, real world experiences (both
successes and more importantly failures) trump theory. This month's Agile
KC meeting is formed around such experiences of an agile practioner.
Ed
Wells, of Asynchrony Solutions, will share his thoughts and perspectives on all
things agile across more than ten projects and eight companies over the last
seven years with Asynchrony.
Topics
will include:
·
how company culture changes
·
the effects the adaptation of agile practices over time
·
changes of best practices for Asynchrony and how they have
evolved over time
·
iterations and work flow management of agile teams
Ed
encourages you to bring your thoughts and questions to make this meeting
interactive. This is your chance to get a 'man on the street' perspective
for things like TDD, pair programming and why you can't steer by
velocity. So grab your boss, peers and disbelievers and plan on
attending this month's meeting.
Ed
Wells is a key member of the Asynchrony team. He joined Asynchrony in 2005
and has supported several projects from development to equipping companies to
adopt agile practices. Currently he is helping Hallmark adopt agile
development practices. Prior to joining Asynchrony Ed has 20 years of
consulting experience mainly in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas as a
developer, technical lead, project lead and project management. He has
supported several large companies including Anhuesher Busch, Express Scripts,
Reuters, Sprint and Wells Fargo Advisors.
We'll save some time for questions
and answers at the end so bring your questions and a friend.
Hope to
see you there!
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