[Scrum-announce] Free Presentation by Joseph Pelrine - February 5

[Rowan Bunning]

As discussed on the SyXPAC list, we are lucky enough to have Joseph  
Pelrine giving a similar talk to the one that the audience at Agile  
2006 loved last year. This should be relevant to anyone practicing  
any Agile method who would like a better understanding of why and how  
it works so as to be able to adapt it effectively to the  
organisation. Joseph’s work here is considered to be at the bleeding  
edge of Agile.

Date: Monday, Feburary 5
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Jacksons On George – 176 George Street, Sydney

The abstract for Joseph’s talk is as follows.



How Agile works – Agility and Social Complexity

The use of so-called “Agile” methods such as eXtreme Programming and  
Scrum has helped many software projects to success, although it’s not  
always clear why and how. An understanding of the roots of agility  
though, is a requirement for adopting and adapting agile processes in  
organisations. New research in the field of social complexity theory  
provides an explanation for when and how agile methods work. By using  
techniques from this relatively new field, developers and managers  
can more easily adapt agile methods to the idiosyncracies of specific  
organisations and projects, are more aware of weak signals that can  
lead to problems, and can design interventions to correct them.

This talk provides a short introduction to social complexity theory,  
especially the Cynefin multi-ontological sense-making framework, and  
illustrates its application to agile software development.



Some (fairly heavy) background material on the Cynifin sense-making  
framework can be found in Kurtz and Snowden’s paper titled The new  
dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world

Note that this talk is on the eve of the Scrum Certification Course  
at the Swiss-Grand at Bondi Beach. This may be convenient for  
interstate people attending the course.



It would be great if you could RSVP to this list so we all know who  
the Scrum-types are to look out for on the night.



Cheers,

Rowan.

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Rowan Bunning
Certified Scrum Practitioner
Wizard Information Services

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