Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
July 10 - 12, 2015
Transitioning to Agile - with Agility
Friday - Jul 10 1:15 PM CDT - BLUEBONNET
Too often we struggle with the transition. We want to become agile, but we feel that some kind of groundwork must be laid. “Sprint Zeroes” are used as an excuse to do anything BUT sprint. Provisioning hardware, setting up development environments, all these things take time in the enterprise. And all of these are very cumbersome - the opposite of agility.
In this presentation we will show you how to take an agile approach to your agile transition. When you leave you will know what you need to do to make the transition to agile with agility. You can start being agile instead of preparing to do agile.
John Borys
Agile Technical Coach at Accenture Digital Interactive
About John Borys
John Borys has developed Enterprise Java applications for 16 years in the Chicago Metropolitan area. He has consulted for small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. Introduced to Agile in 2004 while working on a maintenance system for the F-22 Raptor Engine, he has been an agile Proponent ever since. During that time he has been an Agile Developer, Scrum Master, Technical Lead, Java Architect, and for the last four years, an Agile Coach.
He is currently with Accenture specializing in Agile Transformation in the Large Enterprise and teaching teams XP Fundamentals.
John is a Certified Scrum Professional and a Certified Scrum Master.