Taking Agile From Tactics to Strategy
Teams adopting agile should begin at a tactical level, but they shouldn't end there. The Agile Manifesto operates at many different levels. Learn to apply the principles of agile at a strategic level. Otherwise you can have a great agile ground game and still lose.
Many programming teams now embrace agile at the tactical level, which is the right place to begin. Applying the ideas in the Agile Manifesto, good teams embrace practices like
- story point estimation
- burndown tracking
- technical expertise
- behavior-driven development
- daily standups
- pair programming
- continuous integration
- spiking
- refactoring
- customer always available
- well-understood roles
The Agile Manifesto can be applied at a strategic level, too. However, the tensions are different. Feedback cycles are longer, objectives and results are less clear, and roles and relationships are unknown or changing. In this talk you will learn how to apply agile at the strategic realm, using practices like:
- measure the immeasurable
- pair everything
- choose meaningful standards
- build for tomorrow (but not next year)
- retrospect well
- spot the trends
- use the right medium
- want to succeed (not as obvious as it sounds!)
With the right practices in place, agility can help you choose objectives, as well as attain them.
About Stuart Halloway
Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.
Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.
Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.
Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.
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