       |
  |
The Road to Agile Webinar Series
 Dean Leffingwell Avoiding the Four Roadblocks to Agile Adoption |
 Tom Poppendieck The Agile Customer Toolkit |
 Mike Cohn Moving from Test-Last to Test-Driven... |
 Jim Highsmith Agile Project Management - Reliable Innovation |
|
|
|
|
Rally is pleased to announce The Road To Agile Webinar Series, an exclusive series of on-demand events focused on providing software teams with the practical tools, tips and techniques for succeeding with Agile development practices. You'll learn how to advance your company's responsiveness and make your job more fun and rewarding. These free, one hour webinars are unique in their quality of speakers with all topics presented by recognized Agile experts who have helped hundreds of companies speed delivery of customer value and improve team productivity.
Complete the download form below to access: Road to Agile Series.
NOTE: Completing the form below will give you direct access to other Agile Knowledge resources as well.
« Return to Agile Knowledge Page
Dean Leffingwell |
Dean describes the top four roadblocks his teams have faced when implementing Agile development and project management practices. From convincing the team to pilot Agile processes, to building enough architectural and requirements runway, to planning and executing your very first two-week iteration, Dean provides highly actionable tools and tips showing how to steer clear of the initial obstacles. Dean will share how you can best:
Links: http://www.leffingwell.org/ Dean Leffingwell is an entrepreneur, software industry executive and technical author who provides product strategy and business advisory services to software companies. Dean is the inventor of RequisitePro, IBM/Rational's widely adopted requirements management tool. As former Senior VP of Rational Software, Dean was responsible for the introduction of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and promulgation of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). He is the lead author of Managing Software Requirements: Second Edition: A Use Case Approach, Addison Wesley (2003). In addition to being an active software team consultant, he's a director and advisor to numerous software and technology companies. |
Tom Poppendieck |
Ineffective participation by the business side is one of the most serious shortcomings of IT today. While Agile methods insist on close collaboration between the development team and customers, they are weak in offering the customer specific tools to help them deliver on their day-to-day responsibilities. This Webinar covers tools and practices that Agile customers can use to collaborate with the same flexibility, productivity, and quality that Agile practices afford developers. Join Tom as he describes highly actionable tools and practices that help you and your customer:
Links: http://www.poppendieck.com/ Tom Poppendieck is an enterprise analyst and architect and a seasoned Agile process mentor. He specializes in upstream, customer-side processes, and coaching transitions of development teams to Agile methodologies that are use case/feature driven, domain model based, and centered in component and service-oriented architectures. Tom has had many successes helping project owners and end-users clarify and articulate their needs to maximize development efficiency, system flexibility and business value. Along with his wife, Mary Poppendieck, Tom authored Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Addison-Wesley (2004), that won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004. |
|
Mike will share his practitioner's perspective on how driving your development process with tests can lead to higher quality, better designs, and shorter cycle times. This Webinar discusses the role of documentation, unit tests and acceptance test on a test-driven project, and how test-driven development offers teams more flexibility in dealing with schedule pressure. Specifically, Mike will show how to:
Links: www.mountaingoatsoftware.com and www.userstories.com Mike Cohn is founder of Mountain Goat Software. Mike has over 20 years of experience in various facets of software development, particularly project management and C++ and Java programming. Mike is the author of User Stories Applied for AgileSoftware Development, Addison-Wesley (2004), as well as books on Java and C++ programming. Mike is a frequent industry speaker and has written articles for IEEE Computer, the Cutter IT Journal, Better Software, Software Test and Quality Engineering, the Agile Times, and C++ Users’ Journal. Mike is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on its Board of Directors. Mike is a Certified ScrumMaster and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. |
Jim Highsmith |
From materials to drugs to software, companies are relentlessly driving the cost of change out of their product development processes in order foster innovation. Agile Project Management (APM) excels on projects in which: new, risky technologies are incorporated; requirements are volatile and evolve; time-to-market is critical; and high quality must be maintained. APM can severely challenge traditional "production" oriented project management practices that attempt to optimize, predict paths, and conform to detail plans. Join Jim Highsmith as he discusses the principles and practices of Agile Project Management:
Links: http://www.adaptivesd.com/index.html Jim Highsmith is a recognized leader in the Agile project management and software development movement and has worked with organizations worldwide to help them accelerate development in increasingly complex, uncertain environments. He is Director, Agile Project Management Practice at Cutter Consortium, and is the author of Agile Project Management, Addison-Wesley (2004), Adaptive Software Development, Dorsett House (1999), and Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison-Wesley (2002). Jim was a co-author of the Agile Manifesto and is a founder and board member of the AgileAlliance. |