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Regular Conference Session
Agile Product Delivery - Delivering Value, Quality and Continuous Improvement through feedback
Bob Payne, Vice President and Head, Agile Coaching Services, LitheSpeed LLC
Session Abstract: We expect our children to learn, our organizations to develop and our business to react to the markets. Yet somehow we have forgotten that a key component of learning and growth is based on reacting to feedback from our surroundings. This talk will concentrate on how Agile projects incorporate feedback in the planning, delivery, testing and deployment of software projects. I will discuss both the theory and practice of the incorporation of feedback within Agile delivery methods. These methods were developed to explicitly use feedback to manage change and improve over time. Many teams start by using the practices of Agile but until they truly embrace the power of feedback and collaboration they are not living up to their potential. Even in large organizations feedback and collaboration are the "Secret Sauce" for the success stories.
Speaker BIO - Bob Payne, Vice President and Head, Agile Coaching Services, LitheSpeed LLC
Bob Payne is a leading proponent of Agile Methodologies and Agile Engineering Practices with 25 years of project management, software development, engineering and business experience. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), he has worked exclusively as an Agile Coach and practitioner since 1999. He has mentored and managed many projects ranging in size from five to over one hundred people. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast he has produced over 60 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and Agile practitioners. He has been on the organizing committee of the Agile Software Development Conference in 2007 and 2008. He is cofounder of the Washington, DC XP Users Group. Bob is passionate about training development teams in the use of Agile Engineering Practices that allow them to deliver high quality software in an Agile, iterative and incremental manner. With a MSEE in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and having grown up working in his family restaurant, he brings a unique blend of technical excellence and customer service to bear on his projects and training courses.
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