WEBINAR – The Different Agile Approaches: First (XP, Scrum) and Second (Lean/Kanban) Generation Methods
Get an overview of Agile approaches starting with eXtreme Programming (XP) & Scrum and then hear about Lean-Agile and its team oriented Kanban for software process.
Early Agile methods have been overly-team centric and have eschewed management. While second generation Agile methods build on a decades old history of Lean thinking and have extended agility in three ways that are not only required for an enterprise engagement but also for creating synergies that improve Agile at the team level:
- Extending the Team to across the Enterprise
- Extending Individual skill sets to Systemic Thinking
- Extending the Worker to include Management
TOPICS DISCUSSED will include:
- How the new Agile team methods of Kanban and Scrumban fit into the larger picture of enterprise, management and systems.
- Why the low success rate at the business level is a direct result of first Agile generation methods’ focus on the team while eschewing systems thinking.
- The different Lean-Agile Methods
- Lean-Agile and Kanban address many of the issues that late adopters to Agile have intuitively felt are necessary for a mature organization. While many of these have been sometimes ridiculed by early agile methods, these concerns are a part of Lean-Agile / Kanban.
SPEAKER: Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation. Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and is currently writing Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.
PDU’s: 1…….(PDU info is provided in the recording)
COST: Free
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So sorry I’ll have to miss this. Hope you can repeat it or post it for retrieval. Thanks.
A recording will be posted. See you in the future
Very useful and well-presented overview. Enough good material to be much more than a primer. One of the best webinars of similar length that I have attended. Exceptionally well presented and good use of graphics/slides.
I’ve just viewed the Webinar by Alan Shalloway, and I found it really interesting. The use of the terms FIRST GENERATION to describe Scrum and XP (which are neutral on organisational and business issues), and SECOND GENERATION to describe approaches which take a business focus (the ‘where does the product backlog come from’ bit), is new to me. However, the need for robust business foundations around the delivery process has always been a requirement, and it’s refreshing to see that practitioners are now coming to realise that stuff like Scrum and XP can’t exist in a business vacuum.
The benefit of Agile, in my view, has always been in the value that it adds to the business, in terms of reduced time to market, certainty of delivery, product quality and usefulness. This value will be best achieved when the work of the team is based on solid business foundations. It is ironic that the term ‘SECOND GENERATION’ is being used to highlight a concept which has always been a central philosophy and focus of one of the earliest Agile methods, DSDM Atern. Anyone looking to introduce Enterprise level, robust Agile would be well served by taking a look at this.
Thanks again for a very infromative webinar.
Best Regards
Hugh Ivory