Presentation: "Beyond Agile"

Time: Wednesday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: St James's Suite

Abstract:

You need to work on both people and process to become successful and stay successful - people ad process are not opposites. If you want to see software teams and organizations differently, from a people oriented perspective, come to this session! We will present a fresh perspective on software organizations, focusing on subcultures and people's behavior.

We'll introduce different cultural patterns you can find in software organizations, based on Gerald M. Weinberg's work, and tell how to recognize them, what behavior to expect, and how they handle unexpected events and change. We will show the context in which these cultural patterns are effective and when they go awry. We will also show how different agile processes like Scrum, XP, and Lean Software Development fit in, while explaining some common agile failure modes.

Marc Evers, Independent Consultant

Marc Evers

Marc Evers works as an independent coach, trainer, and consultant in the field of (agile) software development and software processes (through his company Piecemeal Growth).

He trains and mentors people in technical skills, agile processes, project management skills, and personal skills.

In this way, he helps IT organizations become true learning organizations that focus on continuous reflection and improvement. His work focuses on agile & lean software development, systems thinking, retrospectives, and open space processes.

Marc is one of the pioneers of the Dutch agile movement. He frequently presents at international agile events and is co-founder of the Agile Open and XP Days Benelux conferences . You can contact him at marc@piecemealgrowth.nl

Willem van den Ende, Independent Consultant

Willem van den Ende

Willem van den Ende is a Dutch eXtreme Programming pioneer. Since 1999 he guides organisations in the introduction of agile software development as an all-hands person: coach, developer, and facilitator. Always active in the local and international community, he currently serves as board member of the Agile Alliance, host of systemsthinking.net and the European Agile Open conferences. Willem is an appreciated workshop facilitator at practitioners' conferences like XP(Day), Software Practice Advancement, and Agile200*.

Willem's sharp vision, broad knowledge, and twenty years of experience as programmer and coach enable him to adopt a very flexible and improvising attitude during workshops. He has the ability to let people see things differently.