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Several Bad Years

• Bad economy• Layoffs• Unemployment • Less hiring• Not a great time…

Perfect

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Opportunityhtt

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Desperate

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When Do We Change?

When it hurts

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InfoWorld, August 2004, pg. 42

You Drive the Change

• Bring ideas• Suggest improvements• Change the game

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How?

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Roadmap

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Map

Strategy

Exact steps

Guiding principles

Trust

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Agile Practices

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Small Teams

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Daily Meetings

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Hard Stop Iterations

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Continuous Integration

WatchCode

BuildProduct

RunTests

PublishResults

What’s Your Role?

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How to Sell?

• Inner drug dealer• Make it easy• Users should crave

Your Manager

• Desperate• Want ideas• Want a better way• Brilliant insights

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Reinvent the Wheel?

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Borrow from the Best

World Class Content

• Andy Hunt (Refactor Your Wetware)• Joe Little (Business Value Engineering)• Jeff Patton (Story Mapping)• Dawn Canaan & Franz Pereira (Remote

Pairing w/Dev & Test)

World Class Content

• Jason Tanner (Innovation Games)• Larry Maccerone (Agile Metrics)• Laurie Williams (What Does it Mean to Be

Agile?)• Don Gray (Systems Behind the Software)

World Class Content

• Raj Mudhar (Trajectory of Change)• Bill Krebs (Agile 4-D)• Rajiv Narula (Check Your Culture)• Mary Lynn Manns (Leading a Fearless Change

to Agile)

World Class Content

• Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Open Spaces)

RTP Resources

Agile User Group

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610 members

World Class Community Colleges

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Incredible Educational Base

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All the Ingredients

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