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Trackhost: Jutta Eckstein, Independent Consultant

Trackhost: Jutta  Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein is an independent consultant and trainer for over ten years. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her new book Agile Software Development in the Large.

She is a member of the board of the AgileAlliance and a member of the program committee of many different European and American conferences in the area of agile development, object-orientation and patterns.

Presentation: "Typical Pitfalls in Agile Development"

Track:   What Makes Agility Work?

Time: Tuesday 10:15 - 10:45

Location: Conference Hall 2

Abstract: Meanwhile many teams, projects and even organizations apply agile development. But not all do so successful. If you take a closer look, you will find that agile practices like pair programming or test-driven development are applied properly, but it's ignored that those practices can just support but not establish agility. This leads to a mismatch between expectations and reality. Based on my experience as an agile coach in many leading organizations across Europe, I want to explain this phenomena and show what's really important when applying agility.

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Tutorial: "Agile in Large Projects"

Track:   Tutorial

Time: Friday 09:00 - 12:00

Location: SAS Room 11

Abstract:

A lot of people still believe that agile software development is for small teams only. However, the agile value system and the principles behind as stated in the agile manifesto don't say anything about team or project size. Furthermore the projects I'm working on are typically large, distributed and mission-critical. Therefore, several years ago I took the challenge and tried agile software development in the large. Meanwhile I made the similar experience on many large projects: Also large and even distributed teams can benefit from a value system that is beneficial for small teams.

In this tutorial I want to show how to scale agile processes to teams of 200. In fact, the same techniques are also relevant to teams of ten or more developers, especially within large organizations.