Presentation at Scan-Agile 2011 and Agile Riga Day 2011 about how to recognize what type of project you are in, and how to improve it towards a more agile, responsive, higher quality project

1. Scan-Agile 2011 Vasco Duarte Patterns of Agility

2. Vasco Duarte @duarte_vasco http://bit.ly/vasco_blog http://bit.ly/vasco_slideshare

4. No! Mine is more Agile! My project is Agile! Can you please talk WITHOUT using Comic Sans? Live from the Agile Wars

8. The typical life-cycle phases of a project

9. The waterfall life-cycle model

10. The Liner-Iterative life-cycle model Design phase Development phase Testing phase

11. The Agile (aka Incremental and Iterative) Life-cyle model Do all activities simultaneously in short iterations until ready… Release the product

12. The Plan Waterfall

13. I’m confused, I don’t have requirements ready by I am allowed to start coding? Linear Iterative

14. Do what it takes to trace a bullet through the system Agile

15. Waterfall

16. Linear Iterative

17. Agile

18. Development phase Desperately testing and fixing phase Waterfall

19. The “landing” curve But we are here… We should be here… Pre-determined length… Linear Iterative

20. Code Complete Code Freeze Agile

21. Self-awareness and Reflection

22. The force with strong with this audience

23. Currently an Agile Coach in Nokia, Vasco Duarte is an experienced product and project manager, having worked in the software industry since 1997. Vasco has also been an Agile practitioner since 2004, he is one of the leaders and a catalyst in the adoption of Agile methods and an Agile culture at Nokia and previously at F-Secure. Vasco's contributions to the improvement of the software development profession can be read in his blog: http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.blogspot.com. You can follow Vasco on twitter: @duarte_vasco