For those in the Austin Area, I'll be doing a talk at Agile Austin next week on Tuesday, February 3rd. I'll be talking about my experiences in establishing and scaling agility within a large software organization.
Time: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Location: Microsoft Technology Center; Stonebridge Plaza One; 9606 North Mopac; Suite 200; Austin TX, 78759
Here's the abstract:
Scaling Agility: Going from 0 to 1000
In late 2004, BMC was the antithesis of agile. Teams created detailed requirement specs, large functional specs and huge design specs. Releases were lengthy, often late and typically had less than originally promised. Then a perfect storm of events came along: a project was created to move a large customer base to the next generation product, huge expense pressures resulted in a shrinking workforce and a new VP (Israel Gat) joined with the idea of taking a different approach. By 2008, BMC had over 1000 people doing agile. Releases were quicker, of higher value and quality and were done with fewer resources. This is their story.
In this session, we'll cover what went right, what went wrong and the lessons learned. Some areas of discussion will include product management, infrastructure, quality, distributed teams and large scale development. We'll also talk about organizations, politics and the people aspects of transitioning to agility.
