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Agenda

• 6:30 Food and Social Time (brought to you by Plaster Group)
• 7:00 Main Program
• 8:15 Retrospective

Summary

HOW AGILE TEAMS TYPICALLY PROGRESS AS THEY DEVELOP NEW CAPABILITIES
A successful team begins as a collection of individuals with complementary technical skills.
As the team adopts agile practices, a team culture shift occurs: instead of planning in terms of technical considerations, such as software layers or modules, the team now plans in terms of business, customer, or user benefit, exhibiting Focus on Value fluency.
Mastery of technical practices like test driven development requires greater investment and, usually, more time. Once a team skills shift occurs that eliminates technical limitations to delivering working software, the team exhibits Deliver Value fluency.
Where circumstances require, the team may internalize the capability to understand and address market needs. When an organizational structure shift moves key business capabilities inside the team, the team may exhibit Optimize Value fluency.

In January's session, we’ll be using the Agile Fluency Game to show rather than tell. The Agile Fluency Game (developed by James Shore and Arlo Belshee) allows you to decide for yourself how and when to adopt Agile practices. Which ones should you adopt first? How much effort should you put into features instead? Experience the consequences of your decisions in a safe, fun environment, and gain new insights about how the Agile Fluency Model could help your teams.

Speaker Bios:

James Shore teaches, writes, and consults on Agile development processes. He is a recipient of the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, co-creator of the Agile Fluency™ Model, co-author of /The Art of Agile Development/, and host of “Let's Code: Test-Driven JavaScript.” InfoQ has named him as one of the “most influential people in Agile.” You can find his screencasts at letscodejavascript.com, essays at jamesshore.com, and more about the Agile Fluency Project at agilefluency.org.

Steve Hamilton loves to solve interesting business problems with technology (and sometimes without). He is a software product management expert who has been learning and practicing the agile for many years. Steve's background includes accounting, financial analysis, software engineering, project management, program management and, of course, product management. More about Steve on his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehamilton/.

“Agile Fluency” is a trademark of James Shore and Diana Larsen.

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