No, this is not (yet) the report from the Rally Agile Success Tour (AST) in London. You will need to wait another week for my report from this forthcoming event. Rather, this post is to advise folks in the greater London area of a an intriguing thread we will be discussing in the Rally event there on Thursday, October 29.
The choice of companies for the event enabled us to offer participants the full spectrum of Agile scaling experiences, all the way to some 1,200 Scrummers on a single product in one case study. As a result, the richness of the forthcoming panel presentations is unprecedented. Time permitting, we will discuss the following subjects, and then some:
- Three-layer enterprise Agile model
- How to maintain integrity of a vertical feature when it has to be delivered by many Scrum ‘component’ teams?
- Bringing multiple teams and multiple SDLCs together on one workflow
- Cultural differences vis-a-vis Agile between Belgium, England, Finland, Holland, India, Israel, Poland and China.
- How do you accomplish Fully Distributed Scrum under the cultural diversity indicated in the previous bullet?
- The use of deep immersion techniques in Agile
- The Agile with the Masters paradigm
- How to maintain the push/pull balance?
- What limit should be placed on the Daily Commit?
- Emphasis on innovation – not “just” faster, better, etc.
- Advantages of Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Agile context
- How to tie the Agile initiative to strategic investment considerations?
- What was the ‘secret sauce’ of BMC’s Agile implementation? How can you apply it in your company/organization?
- What is likely to be the hottest frontier in Agile during the 2010-2012 period?
One other “ingredient” makes the London event very special. All previous events, gratifying and successful that they were, have been held in the US. The event in London will certainly be different from its US predecessors. In experiences, in interpretations, in points of view, in challenges, in business designs and so on and so forth.
I Look forward to meeting you in London!
