Short video introduction to my sessions at Agile Eastern Europe 2010

In about 3 weeks I'll be flying to Kiev and meeting some of the best Agilists in the planet. But it won't be just fun and games for me. I'm already stressing about my sessions.

Check out the video introduction of my sessions at Agile Eastern Europe and, while you are at it why not book your flights and hotel and joining us there?

See you at Agile Eastern Europe in Kiev!

Introduction to my sessions at Agile Eastern Europe 2010 from Vasco Duarte on Vimeo.

Agile Eastern Europe announced, I'll be visiting

It is now official, I'll be speaking at Agile Eastern Europe. Hope to see you there!

I'll be hosting a workshop and a talk. Both are about the business view of software development. One will be specifically about Agile:

• Business Agility. How to take advantage of an Agile R&D?
  
  Many companies have jumped on the Agile bandwagon. That's good, but what for? In this talk we explore the consequences and possible benefits of adopting Agile for your Business. It's not enough to benefit your R&D, we need to learn how Agile can help our whole company.
  

The other talk will be more generic, but about something that is critical for Agile teams: a workshop about creating a Vision that speaks to the team and can therefore guide the software development:

• Workshop "From an idea to a Vision you can implement"
  
  You've been there. You are tasked with implementing a product that someone else cooked up. What do do next? Follow the spec you say? Wrong!
  
  Developing a product without this Vision is not just waste, it is bad business for you and for your customer.
  
  Before we start implementing any product we must explore it's reason to exist, what customers it benefits and ultimately how it can help your customers (not you!) make money.
  
  In this workshop we will take an example and go through a simple process that helps us explore a product idea to the point that a spec is just a reference, but the product comes alive in the minds of the team members.
  

Agile is easy! It's making it work with your business that is hard!

Last week I gave a talk at Turku Agile Day. The premise of the talk was simple: adoption Agile in R&D only is not enough. The goal was to create simple model to guide us through Agile adoption in a company (as opposed to a team).

I came up with a model that included 3 steps and 15 lessons learnt. How have your experiences been? Have you faced similar or different issues?

Check out the slides for the adoption steps and the lessons learned in the context of each step.

Check out the slideshare page for the notes on the slides that explain a bit more of the content for each of the slides.

Agile is easy! It's making it work with your business that is hard

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