This is my keynote presentation from the AgileTour Ghent 2010 edition.

1. Agile
The mind, body and soul

2. About me
• Experience:
– 10 years of IT experience in total
– 2 years of teaching
– 4 years of software development
– 3 years of scrum experience
• Professional passions:
– Agile
– Training and coaching
– Code quality and design
• Personal passions:
– My family and friends
– Music

3. Partners
• Agile training and events
• ALM expertise
• Professional scrum developer training

4. Dedicated to

5. 12 easy steps to
make agile work

6. Agile
Why settle for the silver
bullet when you can
have the golden one

7. The agile
procedure
written down
once and for all

8. Go agile, all the
cool kids do it

9. All you need is
scrum

10. What are we going to cover
• Manifesto
• Principles
• Truths and lies
• Visual management
• Scrum
• ALM
• Agile practices
• Why agile?
• Everyone agile?
• Selling agile?

11. The beginning
http://agilemanifesto.org/

12. Conversation over rules
No process needed
Tools aren’t important
Processes and tools to help you, not stand in your way
Processes and tools as a means, not a goal
Improvement through interaction
Talk about things, don’t just roll over and play dead

13. Adding business value
No documentation
Documentation should have a purpose beyond existence
Documentation has no value
Documentation supporting software

14. Collaborative sales
No contracts or written agreements
Let the customer figure it out
No release planning
Build trust working together with the customer
Share the product vision
Be transparant to your customer

15. Do not fear the dark side
Don’t plan
Block all change
Understand reality: things change
Make sure you can incorporate change as easy as possible
Make your customer aware of the reality of change

16. Solo

17. Collaboration

18. Continuous improvement

19. It wasn’t build in a day

20. Adding value, piece by piece

21. Empirical

22. Visibility

23. Transparancy & visibility
http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/

24. Visual reminder

25. Scrum

26. The silver bullet

27. Planning

28. Potentially shippable

29. Collaboration

30. Self organizing

31. Cross functional

32. Sustainable pace

33. Software development

34. Software development ++

35. Architecture

36. Not about testing

37. Test automation

38. Continuous integration

39. My personal agile

40. My personal agile

41. Everyone agile?

42. The future

43. The system

44. Test-Driven Development
Corey Haines
November 4-5, 2010
Ghent, Belgium
http://www.agileminds.be/workshop/2010/tdddotnet/index.jsp

45. Code Retreat
Corey Haines World Tour
November 06, 2010
Ghent, Belgium
http://www.agileminds.be/workshop/2010/coderetreat/index.jsp

46. http://ilean.be/course/psd
Professional scrum developer
November 15 - 19, 2010

47. 2011
• Agile.Net Exchange
http://www.agileminds.be/conference/2011/agiledotnetx/index.html
• PSD training
http://ilean.be/course/psd1
• Workshops code craftsmanship
• Workshops agile development

48. Want to share your thoughts?
• @talboomerik
• http://be.linkedin.com/in/talboomerik