As teams increase their delivery effectiveness through XP and Agile practices, they are still challenged to work effectively within larger programs of work and portfolios of projects. And traditional program management is challenged to effectively leverage individual team Agile practices across a broader context. Too often this problem is ignored by traditional management, and the XP team merely works around their non-Agile context. Or the question is simplistically framed as 'scaling Agile' for larger teams. In this talk Sean Doran of ThoughtWorks will introduce some ideas to more effectively frame the question and to apply Agile principles in a larger context.
The Agile Tour Toronto conference took place on November 3rd and was a great success. This session will consist of a series of short presentations and Lightning Talks based on presentations at the conference. This will be a great opportunity to catch up if you weren't able to attend the conference, or for those of you who attended to learn about sessions you weren't able to sit in on.
In this session Jason Little will describe the work that he has been doing with Don Gray to define a theory to help organizations understand their culture and people in order to figure out an agile adoption strategy that is more well suited for their environment. This will be an interactive meeting with exercises and opportunities to provide feedback.
Join Rally Software and your fellow Agile practitioners on the 16th of November. Hear from a global leader in wireless innovation for mobile communications, and Agile Coach, Bob Gower, as they share tried & true tips and best practices. Learn how to build bridges between development and the business to create great products and accelerate Agile benefits.
The Toronto Agile Community presents the 3rd Annual Agile Tour conference being held at the Toronto Board of Trade.
This popular conference sells out each year, providing attendees and sponsors with numerous opportunities to benefit from this lively, informative and interactive event.
This year's conference will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto – a key milestone in the adoption and evolution of Agile practices. To mark this occasion, AgileTour Toronto ’11 will feature interactive sessions, workshops and plenty of opportunities to network.
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker Mary Poppendieck, a thought leader and catalyst for business transformation.
There's been substantial research on how to integrate security into process-heavy software development life cycles. But how do we integrate security holistically into Agile projects?
Rohit Sethi of SD Elements will share his experiences both as an application security consultant and product owner on how to integrate security into Agile development, including:
- Security education
- Adding and triaging security requirements in the backlog
- Agile threat modeling
- Secure coding practices
- Security in QA
- Static and runtime analysis
Emphasis will be on lightweight and automated techniques rather than process / documentation intensive approaches.
Note that the original May topic, Integrating Security into the Agile SDLC, has been postponed to June 21st.
Instead, Michael Sahota will be presenting Agile - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
When an Agile coach enters a new organization they have two basic problems: assess the state of the organization and apply counter measures. These are problems that also face anyone using Agile. This presentation provides a brief introduction to a set of principles and practices one Agile coach uses in tackling these two problems and which can be used by anyone in their workplace.
Presenter: Norbert Winklareth, Agile Renaissance
I don't program like I did 10 years ago. I don't think about programming the way I did 10 years ago.
For me, the greatest change has been how I practice and think about testing.
The testing landscape is vast. There is a lot to see. There is a lot to learn.
In our session, I will share stories from my testing journey and show you with a map that you can use on your journey.
You'll want to come to this presentation if you're a team lead, a business analyst, a product owner, a developer, and especially if you're a tester.
It was 10 years ago this month that the 17 thought leaders behind the Agile Manifesto first gathered to identify the common thread that today we call Agile. According to this article (http://www.sdtimes.com/AGILE_LEADERS_RECONVENE_AT_SNOWBIRD/By_David_Rubinstein/About_AGILE/35244), there’s a mini-reunion taking place to discuss the problems that have been solved and what cannot be solved.
For the February XPToronto meeting we’re going to have our own get together, a panel discussion in a fishbowl format to review the state of Agile in the Toronto area, what’s changed over the last 10 years, what challenges still face the Agile movement and what we can do about them.
