http://www.agilecollab.com pioneering outsourcing 2.0 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:40:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our aim in this workshop is to provide information on Agile from a beginners perspective. We are also aware that given the widespread rise of Agile, there are many misconceptions about what this actually is. And another concern [particularly as managers from more than 10 organizations are attending the workshop] ... http://www.agilecollab.com/introductory-workshop-on-agile-chandigarh-program-update In our last post we saw the typical role played by a manager traditionally. We also saw how this leads to more of a top down control with some minor variations. We also discussed how in an Agile world most of the role definition and the tasks that they do ... http://www.agilecollab.com/manager-20-part-2 Managers in most IT organizations and otherwise, typically focus on a variety of tasks. Using the SCO Model of Management, we can divide these tasks in three categories: Strategic : As per Wikipedia, strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often "winning". A ... http://www.agilecollab.com/manager-20-part-i We have seen a tremendous response to the Introductory Workshop on Agile. People from organizations like Net Solutions, Fidelity, Infosys, Intelliagia, phI, Graycell, AuthorGen, LogicNut and Paxcel Technologies have registered for the Workshop. We will make exceptions for registrations from Academics or organizations that are not currently represented at the ... http://www.agilecollab.com/introductory-workshop-on-agile-chandigarh-workshop-registration-closed There is hardly a topic thats more misunderstood than "Managers Role in Agile." This is sometimes because various Agile frameworks like Scrum do not mention the word "Manager" and others like XP treat at as a purely optional role. All the emphasis is on a self functioning team - figuring ... http://www.agilecollab.com/management-and-agile Introductory Workshop on Agile will be hosted by Agile Chandigarh, under the aegis of Agile Software Community of India and Net Solutions on the 17th May 2008. Agile is among the most discussed topic in the software development community these days. The traditional ways of developing software ... http://www.agilecollab.com/introductory-workshop-on-agile-chandigarh In our previous posts, we have emphasized the importance of a self organizing team. Self organization is a simple concept. A team is formed and a deadline is worked out. The team picks up what it can do in this deadline and off they go building what they committed and at the ... http://www.agilecollab.com/self-organizing-team If there is one person who has seen Scrum and Agile grow in Asia, it is Pete Deemer. He has been involved in Yahoo's large scale adoption of Scrum in SunnyVale, CA as well as its state of the art development center in Bangalore. More than 800 people were transitioned ... http://www.agilecollab.com/interview-with-pete-deemer-leader-of-yahoos-large-scale-adoption-of-scrum In our last post we discussed the basic framework of Scrum. We continue looking at Scrum from a philosophical perspective in this post. In his book, Ken discussed the influence of seminal paper by Takeuchi and Nonaka, in 1986 which linked product development to Rugby. In fact Jeff Sutherland, the co-founder ... http://www.agilecollab.com/a-lean-view-of-scrum Scrum is one of the most popular Agile frameworks. We have discussed elements of Scrum in some of our previous posts. In this post, we review the overall Scrum framework and how it works. Scrum would approach project management by requiring the Product Owner to specifically outline the vision and tentative ... http://www.agilecollab.com/scrum-process-introduction It is not every year that a website gets all the major prestigious awards. But then, Our Wedding Day is not just another website. It is an experience to just browse the website and marvel at the beauty of each of the pages and functionality. The website has won these ... http://www.agilecollab.com/our-wedding-day-plan-your-happiness Naresh Jain is the founder Vice-Chairman of the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) and the organizer of the Simple Design And Testing Conference (SDTConf). Naresh has help start various Agile User Groups including the Agile Philly User Group and various groups in India. Naresh is an active Open ... http://www.agilecollab.com/agile-in-india-interview-with-naresh-jain Well it does. To the tune of $1 billion or more. In 2000, Nortel Network announced the acquisition of a Scrum user, CoreTek - a 120 person company in Wilmington, MA - for $1.43b. However, the offer was not this high always. Initially, Nortel was already interested in CoreTek and ... http://www.agilecollab.com/does-agile-pay-scrum-success-at-coretek The best way to understand what an Agile retrospective is to get it straight from the horse's mouse - the two authors [Diana Larsen and Esther Derby] who co-wrote the book : Agile Retrospectives. The presentation below provides a great introduction to the discipline, practice and philosophy of Agile Retrospectives. http://www.agilecollab.com/agile-retrospectives The main role in Agile Teams is Scrum Master or Process Coach. The KRA or responsibility for this role is simple : be the custodian of Agile or Scrum. The Scrum Master or Process Coach [hereafter referred to as Scrum Master], basically guides the team's use of Agile [Scrum], helps them identify ... http://www.agilecollab.com/scrum-master-or-process-coach-custodian-of-agile