We started scrumming in 2008 and have since then experimented with different agile methods, including TDD, Kanban board, pair programming, peer reviewing and the several different flavors of retrospectives. We are currently working on a new product for which we don’t have customers yet with a team of 20+. It has been challenging to coordinate everyone and to get us all in the same direction, I’d say we’re still struggling, but product managers are now more involved and we have a clearer goal.

As an industry based lobby group we were faced with Legislation to reduce government funding by $1.9B. We needed to respond quickly and adopted an Agile approach to our digital campaign strategy in order to have a skinny version of the website up and running as soon as possible. We used a mix of Scrum and Kanban methods to prioritize widgets we required on the website and ensure our campaign remained responsive to stakeholders and built iterative changes to the site in order to respond to stakeholders and the political debate.

My Industry was faced with Legislation to reduce Govt Rebates to the Health Industry by $1.9B. As the key lobby group, we embarked on a digital strategy to support the campaign. We adopted an Agile approach in order to have a skinny website and mobile app up and running as soon as possible. Weekly sprint planning allowed us to build iterative changes into the release strategy in order to respond to stakeholders and the political debate. Kanban was utilised to prioritize widgets we required on the website and ensure our campaign remained responsive to stakeholders.

After years teaching agile, first to co-workers, then in consultancies and finally in classes through mentoring, we have gathered lots of information on the current status of the Brazilian software market and agile adoption. In this talk, you will learn about the main concerns of the Brazilian public and the most frequently asked questions on the first contact with agile and on the first attempt on implementing it. We will, of course, analise cultural reasons behind those facts. The directions main coaches and trainers in Brazil are going and their motives to do so will also be presented.

Today much debate is had over where to begin with agile projects. You can choose an Agile method like XP, Scrum, or Kanban. Even within Scrum there is heated discussion as to which type of Scrum is best. What do we do?

In this provocative talk, Jesse Fewell says none of it matters; in truth every agile method shares common pitfalls, even with waterfall methodologies.

Presented at conferences across the world, this presentation has inspired and irritated Agile practitioners of all walks. Come hear what exactly will make your project successful, regardless of which method you implement.

This is a practical session aimed at designing an effective Agile and Lean DevOps group. Robert Benefield is a leading Cloud, Agile and Lean advocate who has transformed operations teams at Yahoo! and BT through effective automation and processes, resulting in defect reductions of 85% and the ability to run 250,000 servers with a team of 12. He uses a combination of Agile, Lean and Kanban to move teams from a highly reactive state to a smooth flowing proactive state. This talk will give his tips and tricks on the patterns he has successfully in applied in multiple organizations.

“The taskboard is the heart of Scrum” (Tobias Mayer). Taskboards and the visual workplace play a fundamental role in creating visibility and helping build transparency and trust among Agile teams. Join Visual Management blog author Xavier Quesada in a tutorial workshop where you will learn the power of Visual Management, how to build and use great taskboards and how to design an agile team room.

This experience report will cover how a User Experience Research Team attempted to apply the Scrum framework to manage their projects, and how they reshaped it to maximize the full potential of being Agile. After being a Scrum team for a year, they discovered that Scrum was not a fit for how they function as a centralized UX Research team. The key points that will be presented include the challenges a UX Research team had with being a Scrum team, why they decided as a team to switch to Kanban, and how they applied Kanban principles to manage their projects.

Trying to apply Scrum to production support process with little success? Encountering rapidly changing priorities, short timeframes for deployment fixes, terminating or modifying scrum interations, logic/design misses? This leads to unsatisfied Customers, Product Owners and Team Members. Using Ideas from Agile 2010, PDX developed a ScrumBan Process, and with the help of Rally developed our Scrumban Board. ScrumBan allows more transparency into production support than previous methods and exposes ways to tune the process and review results in a controlled method.

A PO & Scrummaster from MTV present a glimpse into how they’ve overcome many common agile hurdles by not fearing change and narrowing their focus to only the agile principles & tools that the situation calls for. This experience report centers around a small co-located team developing & supporting business-critical products on 450+ websites. We’ll delve into examples of how this team achieved results by focusing on a hybrid of Scrum fundamentals for software dev and basic Kanban principles to support a legion of demanding clients and will also touch on some other team success philosophies.