AGILIS 2009: Virðing fyrir fólki

Ráðstefna um Agile og Lean aðferðir í upplýsingatækni

Þann 2. desember næstkomandi stendur Sprettur fyrir AGILIS 2009 ráðstefnunni á Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. Ráðstefnan er hönnuð fyrir stjórnendur, verkefnastjóra, tæknifólk og alla þá sem vilja ná árangri með Agile og Lean.

Aldrei hefur verið meiri áhugi fyrir Agile aðferðum á Íslandi og eru flest íslensk tæknifyrirtæki annað hvort að byrja eða nú þegar byrjuð að nota þær.

Þau fyrirtæki sem nú þegar hafa náð tökum á teymisvinnu eru byrjuð hugsa um næstu áfanga í fyrirtækjavæðingu á Agile hugmyndum. Næstu áfangar snúa oftast að því að sjá og auka skilning á "heildarmyndinni", þ.e. heildarferlum fyrirtækisins og þannig sjá til þess að teymin fái "réttu" hlutina til að útfæra. Lean hugmyndir og aðferðir eru að ryðja sér til rúms í upplýsingatækni sem hugmyndakerfi til þess að sjá heildarmyndina og ná enn meiri árangri.

Á AGILIS 2009 tekur Sprettur fyrstu skrefin í innleiðingu Lean hugmynda fyrir upplýsingatækni ásamt því að setja fram áhugverða Agile fyrirlestra. Yfirskrift AGILIS ráðstefnunnar, sem nú er haldin í 3ja sinn, er Virðing fyrir fólki. Fókus á viðskiptavirði, stöðugar umbætur og virðing fyrir fólki er það sem tengir saman Agile og Lean aðferðir.

Á ráðstefnunni munu heimsþekktir fyrirlesarar láta ljós sitt skína.

Þátttökugjald er 37.500 kr. og innifalinn er morgunverður, hádegisverður og hressingar milli mála. Eftir ráðstefnuna býður Sprettur upp á léttar veitingar.

Dagskrá AGILIS 2009

Allir fyrirlestrar fara fram á ensku.

Dr. Alistair Cockburn - Hard Agile: Effective Software Development in the 21st Century

Lýsing á Dr. Alistair Cockburn

Dr. Alistair Cockburn was named one of "The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes". He designed IBM's first methodology for object technology in 1992, served as special advisor to the Central Bank of Norway in 1998, decoded the writing of effective use cases in 1999, co-authored the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, the Declaration of Interdependence in 2005, and won Jolt and Jolt Productivity book awards three times, in 2001, 2002 and 2007. He is the author of Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams, and Writing Effective Use Cases. His articles and much more can be found at http://Alistair.Cockburn.us

Hard Agile: Effective Software Development in the 21st Century

Agile is for wimps ... or so it appears watching people poke at it half-heartedly and claim success while their projects suffer. The foundations for effective software development in the 21st century are clear by now: Craft, Cooperative Games, and Lean Processes. This is agile in the large, distributed agile, life-critical agile, hard-agile, agile that brings success. The three core elements not only explain the success of effective teams, they provide good advice to busy practitioners, and they create a sound basis for educating our next generations of developers.

Jeff Patton - 2 fyrirlestrar

Lýsing á Jeff Patton

Jeff Patton has designed and built software for the past fifteen years on a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and ultimately the products delivered. Jeff currently works as an independent consultant, agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor. Current articles, essays, and presentations on variety of topics in Agile product development can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com and in Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. Jeff is founder and list moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, a Certified Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development. Website - including writing, past presentations, and blog: www.agileproductdesign.com

FYRIRLESTUR 1: Lean Product Discovery

Think of a product you love, one you'd eagerly recommend to a friend. What makes the product valuable to you? While I'm not a mind reader, I'm reasonably confident you weren't thinking: "lack of bugs" or "how quickly it got to market."

We evaluate the quality of a product subjectively based on how well it meets our goals, and how happy it makes us doing it. It's that desire for a product that creates market demand, the kind of "pull" we really want in our system. The most difficult part of software development isn't delivery, but the discovery of products and product features that are truly valuable to the people that'll use them.

In this talk I explore applying Lean thinking to the often process resistant job of product discovery. I'll talk about how we place what seem like unpredictable creative activities into a visible and smooth flow. I'll explore counter-intuitive strategies such as building multiple solutions, partial solutions, and un-shipable solutions - all of which look like waste in production but reduce cycle time and increase quality in discovery. I'll discuss overlooked lean concepts that encourage visiting and observing customers to learn for yourself how they use your products. And finally, I'll expose all the clever ways we avoid a healthy product discovery process by over-producing and ignoring the subjective quality we know our customers value.

FYRIRLESTUR 2: Using a Lean & Kanban Approach in Agile Development

anban boards have emerged as a practical application of Lean thinking in agile software development. Using a Kanban style approach you might do away with sprint or iteration cycles to plan your development in favor of continuous planning and prioritization. This talk will give you the basic information you need to understand how to set up a Kanban board to your current agile practice. You’ll learn when and where’s it’s most valuable. You’ll learn more about the Lean principles that drive Kanban thinking and how they can be applied in everyday agile development.

Yves Hanoulle - Tips for creating a self-organizing team

Lýsing á Yves Hanoulle

Yves Hanoulle started working in IT in 1994. He has worked as a software support specialist, developer, team lead, trainer, and agile coach. Yves believes that IT is mainly about working with people. A skill that can never be learned enough. Yves is a Certified Core Coach by McCarthy Technologies. Yves spends 20% of his revenue on training and books. When Yves does not work as an agile project coach optimizing teams in EMEA, he uses agile ideas to raise his 3 kids. You can find him on social media as YvesHanoulle.

Tips for creating a self-organizing team

In the agile world we keep talking about self-organizing teams. There is also the idea that self-organizing teams are self-created. In this presentation I will show my ideas on how you can actually help a team to become self-organizing.

Objective(s) of the session: I want participants to understand after this session that a self-organizing team can be built.

Contents: I will share ideas on creating self-organizing teams that I have gathered over the years out of multiple trainings, leadership books and own experience. Theory from:

The Core Protocols (Jim and Michele McCarthy)
Teamwork is an Individual Skill (Christopher Avery)
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (Patrick Lencioni)
The Speed of Trust (Covey Jr.)

Guðbjörn Hreinsson, Síminn - Discipline of Trust

Lýsing á Guðbirni Hreinssyni

Guðbjörn has been involved with IT and telco for the last 15 years, joined the upstart company Skima offering enterprise messaging and internet services in 1996. Later joining the incumbent telco Siminn in 2000 where he has been involved in operations, development and support, participating in Siminn’s ambitous IPTV project and lately centralized support and operations in Siminn’s new operations center.

Discipline of Trust

Scrum can look and sound easy to the outsider, the reality is that it takes hard work, discipline and a whole lot of trust. This is an attempt to bring an honest insider´s view of "the roller coaster ride" it has been implementing Scrum for the last 18 months, for one telco department implementing an assurance solution. The scope is to highlight the pitfalls and lessons learned for a beginner in Scrum not focused on writing software or developing new services.

Pétur Arason, Marel - What Makes Lean Happen

Lýsing á Pétri Arasyni

Pétur holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Manufacturing Technology. Pétur has work experience in process and production engineering, being a lean consultant and has co-supervised many lean B.Sc. thesis. Pétur is the chairman of the Icelandic Lean user group. He is currently working as a production manager in Marel Food Systems..

What Makes Lean Happen

Pétur has been working on lean implementations for the last eight years both in Denmark and Iceland. Through his work as a process engineer in Denmark, a business consultant in Iceland and now as a production manager at Marel Food Systems, Pétur has some different insights on implementing lean. Pétur will share some of his thoughts on basic elements of the lean philosophy and what is really needed to make lean happen.