Agile Development Blog

Recently, I filmed several “Chalk Talk” videos about some of the basics of Agile software development.

These 3 – 5 minute informal videos are intended to provide quick, easy introductions to Agile topics.  This first set of talks focus on thee Agile Manifesto, the Iteration Retrospective, and the Iteration Demo and Review (yes, I think these latter two are different!) My intent here is to provide you with an alternate way to get access to these fundamentals.

These easy-to-follow videos are great resources to share with your team as they are getting up to speed on the Agile process.

Besides being a quick-start source for your own team, consider using these videos as a quick reference for others. They can be an easy introduction to Agile for people in your organization interested in getting some basic “look-and-feel” without having to read several books. My hope is that each “Chalk Talk” starts or furthers a conversation about the particular topic. I started with the Agile Manifesto in order to lay the ground work about why anyone should care about Agile, what were its roots.

The other two topics are provided here are in no particular order. They are just topics about which I am passionate. I also chose these 2 “Chalk Talk” topics because I find they are very often misunderstood with regard to purpose and attendees and agenda. See if these meeting descriptions look like your iteration meetings.

I have some other Chalk Talks already queued up, so stay tuned!

I plan to keep recording Chalk Talk videos around Agile principles and practices. I’d love to hear your feedback on what other topics you’d like me to cover. Coming up, look for an overview of Scrum and some of the other meetings we use in Agile. For now, watch these videos and tell me what you think.