Topic: Haiku-Driven Development, or Using Ritual and Ceremony to Sustain Agility and Stave Off Process Fatigue
Agile methods like Scrum involve repetitive meetings and actions that can, over time, become routine and lose some of the freshness, challenge and novelty that they offer a team that’s just starting out. How do we put “heart” into agile processes? How can team leaders and members inject variety or even whimsy into what they do every day?
In this session workshop, we’ll explore how agile teams can avoid having these essential routines become, well, routine. We’ll draw on experience from Scrum and agile teams and provide examples of how teams avoided having agile processes become more albatross than aid. And if you have examples of how your team has met these challenges, we’re looking forward to hearing them.
About the Speaker: Michael Tardiff has been working with teams to deliver software and services for over two decades, in large enterprises and small startups on both coasts and in Europe. His life became measurably and permanently better seven years ago when he happened upon XP and then Scrum, and he hasn’t looked back since. Buy him a beer and he’ll listen to your questions about making agile methods work in the real world, or write him at mjt@taoproductions.com.
BONUS: We will be giving aware 1 free seat to Mike Cohn’s Certified ScrumMaster course (Feb 26-27)
Meeting Date and Agenda
Thursday, November 29, 2007
6:00pm Food & Drink
6:30pm Some words of Thanks
6:45pm Topic: Haiku-Driven Development
7:30-ish End of talk, general questions etc.
Location
Cobalt Group Headquarters
2200 First Avenue S
Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98134
Further inquiries can also be emailed to SeattleScrum at Gmail dot com. This announcement may also be found at Seattle Scrums home page: http://www.SeattleScrum.org
