I Want User Management! Or Managing Agile Requirements

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Format: Seminar/Lecture
Duration: 60 or 90 minutes

Abstract

Collaboration between Product Owner and development team is a key to successfully turning requirements into working code in Agile projects. This seminar is a hands-on play built on the presenters' experiences.

The play is a display of the good, bad and ugly in agile requirements management, showcasing product development from idea to implemented code. After the seminar you will have a collection of practical examples on how collaboration helps to build the right thing, the right way.

In order to get as much as possible from this seminar, attendees should either have experience from running Agile software development or be about to embark upon that trip.

Description

This seminar uses the theatre play format to show the audience good and bad practices in the requirements management field when performing Agile software development. Since the format is a play, the presenters are able to show hands-on how good and bad decisions affect the process of software development.

Delegates can expect to learn the following points from the session:

  • the need and benefits of collaboration
  • pitfalls to avoid
  • practical tools and methods to bring back home

Bios

Thomas Lundström
Thomas Lundström, Master of Science from Linköping University, is a consultant in Agile software development with Softhouse in Malmö, Sweden. As a generalist leaning towards the .NET space, he has worked in tech lead roles in a number of Agile projects in the south of Sweden. At the Oresund Agile -08 conference, he was a teacher at the "Accelerated Agile" workshop, where he helped students get up to speed with TDD and other Agile/XP practices in .NET and Java.

Believing in the power of the community, Thomas is one of the founders of the Oresund ALT.NET group (http://oresund.altdotnet.org), an ALT.NET group focusing in the Copenhagen/Malmö area and blogs at http://thomaslundstrom.blogspot.com.

Arne Åhlander
Arne Åhlander is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for several larger software organizations.
Arne has 15 years of experience from the software industry, to a great part in the area of product management where he have held several senior positions. Arne has managed Scrum projects, helped customers start Scrum initatives, and was appointed Certified Scrum Trainer in November, 2008. He became one of Sweden's first Certified Product Owners in November 2006.

Arne is based in Malmö, Sweden, employed by Softhouse and an active member of the SW Business Improvement team. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.
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Comments (2)

 

  1. Jul 23, 2009

    Lasse Koskela says:

    So it's a hands-on play meaning that the participants will take turns acting a r...

    So it's a hands-on play meaning that the participants will take turns acting a role? If that's correct, how will you logistically organize the "casting"? Out of the time available, how much were you planning to spend on the lecture? What about the play?

  2. Jul 30, 2009

    Vasco Duarte says:

    Can you mention some of the "challenges" that people will be facing and hopefull...

    Can you mention some of the "challenges" that people will be facing and hopefully finding solutions for in your session? This would help the audience to "relate to" what you are proposing in a more concrete way...