Rally's Presentations at Agile 2007

• Intro to Scrum
  By Hubert Smits
  During this presentation, Hubert Smits will introduce the audience to Scrum, one of the most popular Agile methods. He will explain the process details of this project management method, the place of Scrum in the Agile world and talk about the roles within Scrum. Throughout the presentation and during the Q&A, he will share his experience as an international Scrum coach with the audience.
• I Don't Like Mondays
  By Jean Tabaka
  How can teams hold effective, decisive meetings? How can Agile coaches ensure useful, goal-focused meetings? And what flows and patterns of meetings can help teams, product owners, and stakeholders derive greater and greater benefits from adopting an Agile process? With the right culture and good meeting management, teams won't dread Mondays anymore.
• From Analyst to Owner
  By Ronica Roth
  For many Business Analysts, Agile provides a perfect, and ultimately more rewarding, role – Product Owner. Many BAs will need to rethink their role and their talents to succeed as Product Owner. In some organizations, BAs support the Product Owner rather than holding that position themselves. In this facilitated workshop heavy on exercises and discussion, we will explore how BAs fit on an Agile team.
• Planning with Distributed Teams
  By Hubert Smits and Tamara Sulaiman
  In Hubert's work as an Agile coach, he regularly facilitates planning sessions, including a few where part of the team was only available through a phone or video link. These were the hardest sessions to get to results. The aim of this session is to discover practices for teams that have to plan while not being able to be together. Hubert will prepare a project description and (using Scrum terminology) a backlog with priorities and estimates.
• Agile Enterprise Rollout – The Greening of the Software Industry
  By Ryan Martens and Jean Tabaka
  To stem this model of waste and poison for a more sustainable 21st century model, the software industry has an opportunity to lead in the greening of the high technology industry. But to do so, it must recalibrate its definition of product development, delivery and marketing. This translates to the following three software-based trends of a zero-waste model: deliver Software as a Service (SaaS), apply Agile software development for sustainable flow of value and rely on social networks for product uptake.
• Distributed Agile Experience Report
  By Hubert Smits and Guy Pshigoda
  The BMC Identity Management organization is based in Israel, and has offices in France, the USA and India. Over the past years, the organization has grown through organic growth and acquisitions into a successful business unit within the global BMC organization. Five hundred people are successfully using Scrum to deliver monthly product increments, and the success of this implementation combined with the uncertainty of the product requirements formed the basis for the decision to use Scrum in this project.