Video interview with Andrea Tomasini

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Last week, agile42 sponsored the Manage Agile conference organized in Berlin, where our senior coach Andrea Tomasini delivered a keynote, “Stop scaling… start growing an Agile organization”. On the sideline of the conference, the Manage Agile team also conducted a very nice and insightful interview where Andrea talked about Agility not being a destination but rather a means to achieve the goals of the organization and the challenges found when transitioning an organization to an Agile and Lean way of thinking.

The interview is in English and can be found on YouTube. You may notice in the video the extra accessory Andrea carries with him: our own little piece of company culture, the green towel that says Don’t Panic.

All videos from Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2014

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Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2014 has been a great success in Bologna on May 30th. A packed room of attendees that gathered in the Italian town to listen to the top presenters of the Lean and Kanban movement – and they also played Kanban Pizza Game with agile42 coaches!

agile42, as the organising sponsor of the event, has produced video recordings of all session that you can watch here (using a YouTube playlist) or in a specific page together with slides.

Offshore scrum: A case study in lean thinking

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Presentation at the Scrum Day in Düsseldorf December 2009, by Andrea Tomasini (agile42) and Dave Sharrock (be2)

Scrum Day Düsseldorf Scrum Day Presentation

Abstract of the speech

While the cost argument for moving traditional development teams offshore is well-known (and generally, still quite strong), the difficulty of maintaining high bandwidth communication with offshore teams using agile development methods has often been considered a substantial barrier to effective development. At be2, a Munich-based online international matchmaking service with an IT organisation based in Armenia, we choose to challenge these assumptions. With the help of agile42, a pilot agile project with two development teams was planned working with the product teams with the most critical business requirement, a complete rebuild of the core service estimated to take over six months before any major result was delivered to our customers. At the end of the pilot release sprint, the first changes to the site were live barely six weeks into the project. And as we start the final transition of the remaining teams, the pilot teams have continued development sprints with the result that the next release includes the majority of the planned design changes, just two months into development. We will present a review of the agile techniques we used, and those we adapted , to achieve a successful transition to scrum-based development. We will focus on the benefits and difficulties of building and maintaining offshore agile teams, and provide some insight into overcoming the challenges of offshore agile development.

Download: Offshore scrum: A case study in lean thinking