Elephant Carpaccio

Leader: Alistair Cockburn, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium

Organizations moving to agile development find themselves unable to leverage the value of fine-grained incremental development and frequent delivery to real users. This is often because:

1. Programmers do not know how to divide their work assignments into integrated work sessions less than half a day long, as they should
2. Business analysts and value managers do not know how to divide their business initiatives into feature packages that take less than a week to develop, as they should
3. Managing executives do not know how to divide their corporate initiatives into value-delivering requests that take a month or less to develop and deploy, as they should

This half-day workshop/discussion addresses those three roles and their issues using a highly collaborative, very high-energy development exercise in which teams deliver running systems to their neighbors every (believe it or not) eight minutes! After attendees have done this in person, the ensuing discussion about implementing agile in the organization takes on a very different, much more effective tone.

This workshop provides executives with a chance to consult with one of the inventors of the agile movement and see business value grow in front of their eyes. It provides managers with a way to create value in any desired delivery window. It provides developers a chance to catch up with the state-of-the-art in fine-grained incremental development. It will provide your organization with a common language for discussing incremental growth of value and early delivery of business value.