Lean and Agile In the Large - Principles, Practices and Experiences for Large Scale Software Development

Dave Thomas (Bedarra and Object Mentor)

Talking Heads · Leadership

Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North

Title: Lean and Agile In the Large - Principles, Practices and Experiences for Large Scale Software Development. Topics: Lean High Performance Teams, Envisioning, Definition, Estimation, Development, Release Management, Measurement, Process Compliance and Peopleware Practices for Large Scale Product and Application Development Audience: The presentation is aimed at a general audience who are interested in or faced with the challenges of building large software products or applications involving many teams who are often geographically dispersed. It is particularly relevant to those involved in transitioning, managing and coaching and developing in large product development organizations. Benefits: Attendees will gain an understanding of practices and experiences using lean and agile techniques for large scale software product development. Content Outline: Lean and Agile practices have made a major positive impact on productivity and quality of life for individuals and development teams. In this presentation we focus on the challenges and practices of using Lean and Agile in large development organizations. We introduce practices in Envisioning, Definition, Planning and Release Management and Measurement which compliment the Agile practices used for Development. These practices allow business to gain agility while addressing their needs for governance and quality. They integrate Lean and Agile software with best practice Lean Product Engineering practices while respecting and encouraging the wide adoption of empowering agile practices. The practices provide proven practical techniques for large scale Agile challenges such as Voice of The Customer: Tangible Requirements and Acceptance Testing; Role of Architecture, Models and Components, Management of Features vs. Components: Planning, Estimating and Resource Allocation: Dependency Management and Release Management; Scrum of Scrums and Communities of Practice, Enterprise Development Dashboards and compliance with CMM, SOX, and Six Sigma/TQM.

Dave Thomas is a Managing Director of Object Mentor, and Founder and Chairman of Bedarra Research Labs, a company specializing in emerging software technologies and applications. Dave is best known as the founder and past CEO of Object Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs) and led the commercial introduction of object and component technology. Dave was the principal visionary and architect for IBM VisualAge Smalltalk and Java tools and virtual machines including the popular open source multi-language Eclipse.org IDE. OTI pioneered the use of virtual machines in embedded systems with Tektronix shipping the first commercial products in 1988. He was instrumental in the establishment of IBM's Pervasive computing efforts and in particular, the Java tooling and virtual machines. Dave is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University and the University Of Queensland, and is widely published in the software engineering literature. Dave remains active in various roles within the technical community including ECOOP, AOSD, JAOO,Agile Development Conference, OOPSLA Onward and Dynamic Language Symposium. He is a founding director of the Agile Alliance, an ACM Distinguished Engineer, President of AITO and an advisor for IEEE Software. He also writes an expert column in the Journal Of Object Technology. www.davethomas.net