Paul Browne

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Agile and your Boss

• Diskworld pic

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Introductions
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40 Minutes

• Clock

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Pain Pleasure

• SM

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Why projects fail

• Verona Narrows Bridge

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The Hard Numbers

• Construction worker

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Who is to Blame?

• Cartoon character?

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Technology not the Answer

• Picture Robocop

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What is Agile?

• Picture - Gymnast

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Communication

• 2 people / or escher prints

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Customer Focussed

• Picture of McDondalds Hamburger

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Working as a Team

• Tug of War

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Test Driven Development

• Testing tool

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NUnit

• Picture of .NetUnit

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You can test everything

• American guru

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Some Tools to Help
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Refactoring

• Laurel and Hardy

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Ownership

• New Car

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Estimating

• Finger in Air

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Metrics

• Car Dashboard

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You can use agile in ...

• Vegtable Chopper thing (from QVC)

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Discussion

• Town Hall meeting

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People Engineering

• Picture of Lord Ventari from Diskworld

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Sales for Dummies

• Picture of Book Cover from Amazon

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Feature selling

• Picture of 1950's Car Salesman

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Project Stakeholders

• Dracula and Snake

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Meet your Boss

• Same picture as start

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Meet your client

• Picture of Customer leaving McDonalds

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Meet yourself
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• Picture of Mirror

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Project Management 101

• Picture of Stopwatch / Excel

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To Agile or not to Agile?

• Shakespere

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Resistence to Change

• Allo Allo

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Agile under the Radar

• Radar / Golf balls

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Business Value

• Gears / Big Business

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Stages of acceptance

• Intrigued
• Offended
• Dismissive
• Curious
• Addicted

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Quick and Dirty

• Picture Old Drogheda Bridge (Cowboy)

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Predictive

• Drogheda River Bridge

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Agile

• Drogheda Rail Bridge

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XP

• Bungee Jumping off the bridge

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Summary

• Part 1
• Problem and the solution
• Part 2
• Getting your boss to agree to it

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Questions?

• Del.icio.us links
• Incl current firefox
• Link into this in presentation
• Resources on key
• Link in own blog articles to this
• Links
• Agile Alliance
• http//www.agilealliance.org/intro
• http//www.agilealliance.org/articles
• Gentle Intro to XP
• http//www.extremeprogramming.org/
• XP Development Club
• http//www.xpdeveloper.com/
• Exoftware thing on White Elephants