GOOGLE : IS THIS AGILE

Organiser
Agile Alliance Australia - Sydney Chapter
Date
Tue, 8 Feb 2011, 06:30 - 08:30 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
City Espresso - Allianz Building , Sydney, AU
Cost
Free

Agile Sydney are proud to present our first event for 2011.

We are pleased to kick off the year with an informal “pub” event based in the CBD.



5:30M ARRIVAL -- 6:00PM START

GOOGLE: IS THIS AGILE?


Please come and join Google's Dhanji R. Prasanna while he compares his current project to several of the popular agile markers and asks "is this agile?".


Here are some of his observations:
- We don't use stories
- Features can't always be user-centric
- We don't talk about spikes or iteration planning
- We don't have stakeholders, or even a board
- We don't do estimation or points or scoring

Surely this isn't agile?
Is your project more agile than this?
How do we measure agility?

Dhanji will regale us of his project for a brief 15 mins and then open up the floor to opinions and questions.

This will be a very informal session; as always the bar will operate throughout and you're welcome to buy a drink during proceedings as long as you don't heckle.

We look forward to seeing you there




ABOUT DHANJI R. PRASANNA

Dhanji R Prasanna is a software engineer at Google, heading up an exciting search project due for launch in March 2011 at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.

He originally joined to work on Google Wave after several years of agile experience with Thoughtworks and elsewhere.

As well as authoring Dependency Injection (Manning) and regularly speaking on the Java software engineering circuit, Dhanji is an active contributor to a number of open source projects including Maven, MVEL, Sitebricks and Guice.

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