Although agile principles sound simple, adopting agile is often extremely difficult. Some teams adopting agile start by making changes and tweaks to prescribed processes—bad! Steve Berczuk explains how following the recommended practices of your chosen agile method for a time will help you internalize the process and leverage the experiences of those who developed the method. Through experience, Steve has discovered that premature customization can lead to more problems and eventually to failure. After discussing the common reasons teams customize methods and tools prematurely and the problems this can cause, he offers guidance about how and when to change an agile process and explains which practices are essential to retain the values and principles that make agile development what it is meant to be. Take back a new appreciation of how following proven agile practices before you adapt them leads to the profound understanding and internalization of the principles that agile requires.
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Adopt Before You Adapt: Learning Principles through Practice
1. AW7
Concurrent Session
11/13/2013 2:15 PM
"Adopt Before You Adapt:
Learning Principles through
Practice"
Presented by:
Steve Berczuk
Fitbit, Inc.
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2. Steve Berczuk
Fitbit, Inc.
Steve Berczuk is an agile software developer and agile SCM expert with
more than twenty-five years of experience building systems and helping
teams work together effectively. Most of his experience has been working
in startup environments, including many teams trying to adopt Scrum and
agile engineering techniques. Steve is coauthor of Software Configuration
Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration; a regular
contributor to TechWell.com; and a member of the Scrum Alliance, IEEE,
and ACM. Find his articles and blog at berczuk.com and follow him on
Twitter @sberczuk.
