InfoQ

Presentation

   Good News: We have re-worked our video infrastructure to provide more reliable service. Please email bugs at infoq.com with any problems.

Recorded at:
Recorded at

Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

Posted by Todd Little on Feb 11, 2008 07:47 AM

Community
Agile
Topics
Customers & Requirements,
Methodologies,
Leadership
Tags
APLN,
Management,
Agile2006,
Planning,
Complementary Practices
Summary
Of course, "anything more than 'barely sufficient' process is waste," but what does that mean for your team, or my next project? In this 60 minute presentation from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, Todd Little shared a model to help choose the right "flavour" of Agile for different kinds of projects, and discussed the importance of 'steering' throughout the project's duration.

Bio
Todd Little (tlittle@lgc.com) is Senior Development Manager for Landmark Graphics, with 25 years' software experience in quality, engineering, consulting, project management and general management. Todd is a member of the Agile Alliance board, IEEE, Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

About the conference
The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

Related Sponsor

VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. Companies such as Adobe, BBC, CNN, Dow, HP, IBM, Sony and 3M have turned to VersionOne to help deliver greater value to their customers.

No comments

Reply

Exclusive Content

Tapestry for Nonbelievers

A new article by I. Drobiazko and R. Zubairov introduces v. 5 of the Apache Tapestry component-oriented web framework. The tutorial shows how to create a component and covers IoC in Tapestry and Ajax.

Pete Lacey on REST and Web Services

In this interview, Burton Group consultant Pete Lacey talks to Stefan Tilkov about his disillusionment with SOAP, his opinion on REST, and addresses some of the perceived shortcomings REST vs. WS-*.

Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby

Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages - a type of Domain Specific Languages geared towards being readable by domain experts.

Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through

Adoption and interest for Distributed Version Control Systems is constantly rising. We will introduce the concept of DVCS and have a look at 3 actors in the area: git, Mercurial and Bazaar.

Segundo Velasquez and Agile as Seen Through the Customer's Eyes

Deborah Hartmann interviewed Segundo Velasquez about his experience as customer with an Agile team during the initial phase of software design of a product.

Fine Grained Versioning with ClickOnce

David Cooksey shows how to fine grained versioning to a ClickOnce deployment using an HttpHandler written with ASP.NET, making partial rollouts to a test audience much easier.

Implementing Manual Activities in Windows Workflow

Windows workflow (WF) is an excellent framework for implementing business processes, but lacks support for human activities. This article describes a completely generic approach for changing this.

Markus Voelter about Software Architecture Documentation

In this interview taken during OOPSLA 2007, Markus Voelter talks about the importance of documenting the software architecture, and gives some good and also bad examples on how it could be done.