Friday, June 27, 2008

Agile Atlanta on July 8th: Agile Architecture IS Possible

Before you start your Independence Day celebrations, don't forget to add the next Agile Atlanta meeting to your calendar! On Tuesday, July 8th, Mark Isham will us a special sneak preview of the presentation he is delivering in August at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto.

Agile Architecture IS Possible - You First Have to Believe!

Speaker: Mark Isham
Date: July 8th, 6:45 PM
Location: IBM-ISS (6303 Barfield Rd NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30328)

Have you ever been told “Agile works great for UI, but just doesn’t work for large scale systems architecture”? In this experience report, I will review a real world project to redesign a successful large scale ecommerce system that became plagued with growing pains. After the team initially ran to the comfort of a long term waterfall project, cost overruns and escalating problems necessitated a new approach. Enter in Scrum and a focus on iterations and frequent customer feedback, and a once failed project turned into a blazing success.

Process/Mechanics

1. Review of the problems we were hitting
2. Overview of the initial “monolithic” redesign ideas
3. Discuss business pushback on those ideas
4. Discuss push to try agile technics to solve
5. Cultural resistance faced by original architects from #2
6. Talk about the points made and counter-arguments presented
7. Review the revised iterative approach to solving
8. Followup with results on how that approach worked.


Agile Atlanta group on LinkedIn (Thanks Al Snow!!):
http://www.linkedin.com/search?search=&sortCriteria=3&groupFilter=120862

Upcoming Meetings:
August 12th: Regular monthly meeting, topic TBA
September 9th: Regular monthly meeting, topic TBA
September 25th-26th: APLN Leadership Summit, Marriott Perimeter Center

Upcoming Training:

July 31st - August 1st: Certified ScrumMaster, trainer: Chris Doss, Innovel, LLC
August 13th-14th: Certified ScrumMaster, trainer: Bryan Stallings, Rally Software Development

Thanks!
Handly Cameron
http://handly.blogspot.com
" type="hidden"> Before you start your Independence Day celebrations, don't forget to add the next Agile Atlanta meeting to your calendar! On Tuesday, July 8th, Mark Isham will us a special sneak preview of the presentation he is delivering in August at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto.

Agile Architecture IS Possible - You First Have to Believe!

Speaker: Mark Isham
Date: July 8th, 6:45 PM
Location: IBM-ISS (6303 Barfield Rd NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30328)

Have you ever been told “Agile works great for UI, but just doesn’t work for large scale systems architecture”? In this experience report, I will review a real world project to redesign a successful large scale ecommerce system that became plagued with growing pains. After the team initially ran to the comfort of a long term waterfall project, cost overruns and escalating problems necessitated a new approach. Enter in Scrum and a focus on iterations and frequent customer feedback, and a once failed project turned into a blazing success.

Process/Mechanics

1. Review of the problems we were hitting
2. Overview of the initial “monolithic” redesign ideas
3. Discuss business pushback on those ideas
4. Discuss push to try agile technics to solve
5. Cultural resistance faced by original architects from #2
6. Talk about the points made and counter-arguments presented
7. Review the revised iterative approach to solving
8. Followup with results on how that approach worked.


Agile Atlanta group on LinkedIn (Thanks Al Snow!!):

Upcoming Meetings:
August 12th: Regular monthly meeting, topic TBA
September 9th: Regular monthly meeting, topic TBA
September 25th-26th: APLN Leadership Summit, Marriott Perimeter Center

Upcoming Training:

July 31st - August 1st: Certified ScrumMaster, trainer: Chris Doss, Innovel, LLC
August 13th-14th: Certified ScrumMaster, trainer: Bryan Stallings, Rally Software Development

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