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 16th in downtown San Francisco, and Thursday, March 17th 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 21st-24th we’ll be back down in Santa Clara, CA, where we’ll be exhibiting at EclipseCon 2011. We hope to see you there!
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“Agile Comes to You” Seminars Go West
March 15th, 2011 by AccuRev
Agile Comes to You Seminar Re-cap
October 20th, 2010 by AccuRevOur 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.
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Missed the seminars? Here are a few more events you might be interested in: http://www.accurev.com/events.html
AccuRev’s Agile Methodology Workshop
July 20th, 2010 by Bob DeMariaAccuRev hosts educational Agile methodology seminars called “Agile Comes to You,” which reach audiences nationwide and focus on teaching best practices of Agile software development. The seminars have been quite successful, and regardless of their organization’s level of Agile adoption, I know attendees have learned some great information from these sessions.
AccuRev doesn’t host the Agile methodology seminars alone, and generally presents in conjunction with partners Rally Software, Urbancode (the makers of AnthillPro), and Coverity. The seminars consist of a keynote with extensive Agile experience, educational presentations, and a short tools demonstration. The format has been so successful that we have used it for over a year, and you might even notice similarly-formatted seminars from other organizations as well. (Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, right?)
The Agile Methodology Workshop
We try to focus on making our seminars as educational and relevant as possible by giving attendees access to the real life Agile experiences that presenters bring to the table. So in addition to presentations focused on benefits of the Agile methodology and best practices, we came up with the concept of an “Agile Workshop.”
The Agile Workshop allows each attendee to discuss their most difficult challenge in transitioning to Agile with other attendees in small groups, as well as with our Agile experts. We do this for two reasons:
1) It gives the attendees a chance to exchange thoughts and solutions regarding their Agile migration.
2) It allows the attendees to interact with the panel of experts on how to solve these difficult challenges.
Once the group has discussed the challenges each individual faced during a transition to Agile, they then agree upon a top challenge that they ask the panel of Agile experts to comment on and offer advice.
For example, at a recent seminar in Toronto, this was the attendees list of top challenges:
We have been seeing this same pattern across most of our seminars, and I believe it gives us good insight into the state of Agile adoption. It is amazing to see that even across very different organizations, the challenges that arise with Agile adoption are remarkably consistent from seminar to seminar. It seems that no matter who you are, or what stage of Agile adoption you are in, many are facing the same challenges when moving towards Agile development. There is some comfort in numbers, knowing that you are not alone in facing hurdles.
While I won’t take the time to answer every one of these challenges here today, I plan on commenting on each one of these issues in the coming months, in hopes that sharing my experiences and alternatives help you in solving these difficult problems. I would also like to invite some of our Agile experts, as well as our attendees, that are internal to AccuRev or our partners to comment or blog on some of these topics to share some of their experiences.
While the “Agile Comes to You” tour is taking a short break for the summer months, be sure to look for us in your city this September or stop by and visit us at Agile 2010 Conference in Orlando. Have a great summer!