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  • What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?
I coached an XP Team of 10 people for 6 months back in 2002. No one on the Team had experience doing XP (or anything Agile) and I was foolish enough to think I could do it. This was my first coaching experience and I was completely hooked. I loved the simplicity of XP, the values resonated with me and I like teaching people new things. I wanted to learn and do more and in 2005, I became a Certified ScrumMaster (taught by Ken Schwaber). It was not until 2007 that I was able to apply what I had learned since 2002 when I landed my current assignment. Today, I am a corporate change agent for a very large US corporation where we are using Scrum in an FDA regulated environment. In the past year, I have coached two teams (about 8 people each) on how to apply Scrum in their world. It is some of the most challenging work I have ever done, but the most fun, too.

  • What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
Understand how other people in regulated industries are using Agile concepts and nurturing growth of these ideas.

Learn how to bring about cultural change when middle management does not buy in, i.e. they still just say "get it done".

Talk about what metrics are people using to drive change.
XP was, and still is, my first love. How do people get started with XP these days?
How does Agile play nice with "accepted" corporate change initiatives like Six Sigma?

  • How do you plan to contribute?
Talk with other people, offer my experience and share my viewpoint.
Maybe present a lightning talk on my "Refactoring Challenge" idea?
Perhaps gather people together who work in regulated industries to share ideas specific to our domain?
Created by Naresh. Last Modification: Thursday, 22 of May, 2008 11:40:09 CEST by Naresh.