CHOOSE Forum 2008
Joseph Pelrine - Around the world in 80 stand-ups - Secrets of distributed Agile development
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
About Joseph Pelrine
Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process, and is one of Europe’s leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe’s first certified Scrum Practitioner and Trainer. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. His work focus is on field of social complexity science and its application to Agile processes, and his new book on this topic will be published in early 2009.
Talk abstract
Agile development methods work well for small, co-located teams, but do they also work well for multi-team, multi-site projects? Which practices scale, and what needs to be changed in order to run a globally distributed software project? Based on his experience implementing large, distributed projects for companies such as SAP and Nokia, Joseph Pelrine will explore the promises and the challenges of going agile on a large scale.