Me speaking at Agileee 2011!

I wanted to take a minute to thank Agileee for having me this year. It really was a great conference- great speakers, great crowd, great city. I learned a lot and met some interesting folks, and must say that Kiev, you changed my opinion of vodka .

For any of you who missed it or would like a reminder, the video of my presentation, “Scrum and Kanban, Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter” is available here, as are the slides.

If you get the opportunity to attend the next Agileee, I highly recommend it! Thanks again for having me, Agileee.

AccuRev is going to Agile 2011! Stop by the AccuRev booth to say hello, enter to win our great give-away, or see the new AccuRev version 5.2 demoed.

Session hopping? Make sure you attend Damon Poole’s session, Scrum and Kanban, Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter on Wednesday, August 10th, at 3:30 PM in Imperial Ballroom A. You may wonder how Kanban can help with your real-world process problems. Damon will discuss Kanban from a Scrum perspective, show how the Lean practice of “One Piece Flow” is the key to both, and look at how to mix and match Scrum and Kanban to fine tune a process that fits your circumstances.  

The AccuRev team is gearing up for an upcoming West Coast tour, first stop, San Francisco!  AccuRev, along with SQE, Agile Journal, Urbancode and Rally Software, will host the popular Agile seminar, “Agile Comes to You” tomorrow, March 16^th in downtown San Francisco, and Thursday, March 17^th in Bellevue, WA. The complimentary Agile seminars focus on Agile development best practices, and best-of-breed solutions necessary to scale and optimize development processes and teams. So if you’re in the San Francisco or Seattle areas this week, and are interested in an Agile seminar, stop by!  Going to EclipseCon? March 21^st-24^th we’ll be back down in Santa Clara, CA, where we’ll be exhibiting at EclipseCon 2011.  We hope to see you there!

Throughout 2010, we surveyed over 1,000 developers, product managers and other software professionals during our Agile Comes to You seminar series, about the pain points they were experiencing on their way to adopting Agile. The results showed several interesting trends and obstacles when adopting Agile, and we provided multiple solutions in fixing such problems.

Just a couple weeks ago, we kicked off our 2011 Agile Comes to You seminars with events in Phoenix and Atlanta, where we re-launched our research efforts aimed at gathering more insights into Agile pain points.  Our next Agile seminars are in the Bay Area and Seattle, on March 16th and 17th.  In each of these sessions, we will address the top Agile pain points we discovered, and their necessary solutions. We encourage the Agile community to join in the dialogue by reading our pain points report or by attending one of our upcoming Agile Comes to You seminars!

AccuRev is sponsoring a brand new Agile event with Eliassen Group, Agile Journal and Rally Software- Incorporating Agile into Your Organization- a breakfast panel discussion that focuses on maximizing the ROI of Agile methodologies throughout your company.

We invite you to join us in answering the common questions:

‘What is Agile?,’ ‘How can you help Agile permeate through your organization?‘ and ‘Where is the ROI within Agile development?‘

Date & Time:
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
7:30AM – 10:30AM

Location:
Boston Marriott Burlington Hotel
One Burlington Mall Road
Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 USA

Cost:
$50/person registration fee – each attendee will receive a $50 Amazon gift card at the event.

Agile Event Agenda

7:30 AM   Registration and Breakfast

8:00 AM   Panel Discussion- What is Agile?

8:15 AM   Panel Discussion- How can you help Agile permeate through your organization?

8:45 AM   Networking Break

9:15  AM   Panel Discussion- Where is the ROI?

10:00 AM  Q&A

10:30 AM  Closing and Rafflle

It’s going to be a great event, we hope to see you there!

This event is over. For more events visit: http://www.accurev.com/events.html

Our Agile Comes to You seminar tour with AnthillPro and Rally is starting to wind down, with only 1 more seminar to go in this round!  (Check out our events page for more information.)   It’s been a very successful tour thus far, we have answered a lot of your questions about Agile adoption and Agile pain points, worked with some great presenters, and met a lot of Agile enthusiasts.

Check out what attendees are saying about Agile Comes to You, read a presenter’s point of view about a recent seminar, or follow #Agile2U on Twitter.

Agile Comes to You is brought to you by:



Missed the seminars?  Here are a few more events you might be interested in: http://www.accurev.com/events.html

Our Agile seminar tour, “Agile Comes to You,” is back in action for the fall.  With a new line-up of cities, accomplished keynotes, our favorite partners and our favorite sponsors Agile Journal and SQE, we know this round of seminars could be our best yet.

“Agile Comes to You” Seminar Fall Line-up:

Agile Comes to You, Minneapolis Seminar

9/14 in Austin

9/15 in Dallas

9/28 in London

9/30 in Amsterdam

10/5 in Santa Clara

10/6 in Orange County

10/19 in Minneapolis

10/20 in Detroit

10/26 in New York City

If we are coming to your area, keep an eye out for registration on the AccuRev Events Page, you won’t want to miss it.  At “Agile Comes to You,” you will:

• Learn the core fundamentals of Agile development practices and what they mean to the various roles within your development team.
• Understand how you can apply software configuration management, continuous integration, static analysis, code review and quality management best practices within your Agile team.
• See how an integrated set of best-of-breed tools can help to enable quality, collaboration and visibility for development teams, their managers and executives.
• Hear examples from industry leaders of how development organizations like yours have reduced risk, boosted productivity and cut development costs with Agile.

For Twitter updates on “Agile Comes to You,” use #agile2u.

“Agile Comes to You” is brought to you by the following:

Who? Damon Poole, AccuRev Founder and CTO, Agile expert and popular speaker.

What? Presenting “True Agility Requires Us to Re-examine Our Beliefs” for Nashua Scrum Club.

Where?  45 High Street, Nashua, NH 03060

When? Thursday, September 9, 2010

Why should you attend? Damon says “Too many projects that “go Agile” are actually far from true Agility. They end up reverting to old habits or just change the labels on the activities that they are doing without changing what they actually do on a day to day basis. As a result, many so-called “Agile” projects get few if any of the benefits of Agile and some are even worse off than before! Why does this happen?”

This session will give you an opportunity to uncover and re-examine your mental model of software development by taking a look at the top ten Agile blind spots. This will allow you to discover the blind spots you or your organization may have so that you can work towards removing them and start experiencing the full benefits that true Agility offers.

Visit Nashua Scrum Club to register!

As you have been seeing in the blog and on AccuRev’s Twitter feed, I spent last week at Agile 2010.  I thought it was a great show- I met a lot of interesting people, led three big Agile sessions, and even got to ride Epcot’s Test Track.  It was definitely a fun and eventful week in Orlando!

To thank you for your support this year, I promised to post my presentations in the AccuRev blog. The presentation from my first Agile 2010 session, Scrum and Kanban-Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter, has already been posted in case you missed it or were turned away.  (Agile 2010 volunteers ended up brining extra chairs into the event room but lots of people were turned away due to fire code restrictions.)

Here are the other two presentations I gave later on during the conference week, enjoy!

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Damon’s Agile 2010 Retrospective

In an effort to drum up ideas for next year’s Agile conference, I started asking some of the people I met with, “Why do you come to conferences like this?” I received a variety of answers and created a little retrospective video, all with my iPhone 4 and iMovie.

AccuRev has been down in Orlando at Agile 2010 for almost a full week now, and if you haven’t stopped by the booth to say hello to us yet, I encourage you to do so!

Damon Poole, AccuRev CTO, wrapped up a series of three Agile sessions today, and was pleased with the outcome.

“I think the sessions went really well, people were excited for them, I was excited for them, but ultimately I hope everybody learned something valuable” said Damon.

His presentations were titled “Scrum and Kanban- Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter,” “Getting Managers and Agile Teams Out of Each Others Hair,” and “Managing Growth Pains on the Way to 40 Scrum Teams.” (See “Three Days with Damon Poole on Agile Development and its Components” for more info).

Damon’s first session at Agile 2010, “Scrum and Kanban- Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter,” attracted a large crowd, and unfortunately several people were turned away.  But as he promised, we are posting all of his presentations in the AccuRev blog.  You can download Damon’s presentation of  “Scrum and KanBan- Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter” here.  Enjoy!