My Agile Journey: XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban & Back Again • Jesper Boeg • GOTO 2012

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2012. #gotocon #gotoaar
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Jesper Boeg - Agile/Lean Coach and Author of Priming Kanban
ABSTRACT
In this session I will share my personal Agile journey. From my first encounter with Extreme Programming at university, through experiences with Scrum, Lean and Kanban. A journey that has taken me from having great success implementing Scrum and a growing belief that Scrum was the one silver bullet to rule them all, to an identity crisis when my religion came crashing down on me. From rebelling against Scrum as local optimization, batch thinking and cargo cult religion when discovering Lean and Kanban principles, before new experiences and success with Scrum and "Scrumban" forced me to realize that the world is not black and white, either or.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • amzn.to/2XjbWor
Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • amzn.to/3tpAqb5
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • amzn.to/3hB4eNk
Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • amzn.to/2X4GQAD
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[@edwardo737]

Excellent. Was helpful to follow your thinking along your journey.

[@onlinesaurav]

This guy is amazing. Hats off!

Thanks Jesper for this talk. Could you give the details of the books you recommended?

[@JohnForbes]

Bit of a late response, but here are some of the titles:
Principles of Product Development Flow Book by Donald G. Reinertsen
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business Book by David J. Anderson and Donald G. Reinertsen
Toyota Kata Book by Mike Rother
The Lean Startup Book by Eric Ries
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works Book by Ash Maurya
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation Book by David Farley and Jez Humble

Hey, still worth it. Thanks!

[@JohnKerbaugh]

Thanks for asking and sharing.

[@De4sher]

I tried the ABAP programming language. Debugging is what you get to do really really really fast. Useful too when you have to dig into oceans of code having no idea what's there. It's a good thing i haven't met such humongous code bases in the other languages i've tried, because it would have been far worse to find a bug in Python for instance, in 2 million lines of code. Then again, why didn't they modularize well to begin with? Cuz the debugging was so easy?

[@solongsucka]

De4sher what the fuck are you talking about?

[@De4sher]

watch the vid, and you'll know

[@solongsucka]

De4sher I did and it has nothing to do with ABAP.

[@reniercronje1554]

Talks a lot and say very little.. Good speaker and very entertaining but it is like watching a very slow drama where you find yourself fast forwarding to get to the plot!

[@onlinesaurav]

What are you talking about?

[@reniercronje1554]

I feel no need to elaborate. Read my comment again. If you still fail to grasp it don't worry about it..

[@onlinesaurav]

What's the use of your saying somersetting if not to communicate?

[@reniercronje1554]

I am a Project Manager myself. I have also lectured. The speaker is a very good speaker by he delivery is very slow. You have to watch for very long to actually learn anything. This might good for people who are new to Agile Scrum and Project Management... even then I think he can get faster to the point.

[@ILykToDoDuhDrifting]

This entire thing is his life story where nothing happens, he goes to school, student job, grads, goes to work, learns scrum, doesn't like process cuz process is stiff and inflexible, goes kanban, says he's super awesome cuz he's showing others kanban, mumbles about nothing up a mountain in a basecamp, mumbles about what kidna books he likes to read without any reasoning or explanation or main points or takeaways, Says more gibberish again. Jesus christ. Just start at 45 minutes. Complete waste of time. He should be paying me to watch this crap.

[@BenLauff]

+1, completely waste of time....

[@onlinesaurav]

What are you talking about?

[@thegarciab0y]

I agree, the entire time I was waiting for some sort of conclusion or takeaway

[@-rpm]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh

[@CvnDqnrU]

Just a very long inside joke. Not a presentation at all.