Smells in Agile Software Development

Jutta Eckstein (IT communication)

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams, Planning

Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

Over the last few years, the adoption of agile methods has rapidly spread and agile methods are now state-of-the-art. Many teams, projects and even organizations around the world are using Scrum, XP, Crystal Methodologies, or other well-known or self-made agile methods. However, not every organization and project is succeeding in making agile work.

What makes an agile project successful? And how can we recognize common traps or "smells" that prevent or limit success with agile?

Let's take a common trap as an example: Agile practices like pair programming or test-driven development are often applied properly but the underlying agile value system is not embraced. This leads to a mismatch of expectations: The results can't keep up with the expectations people have about agility and its benefits..

In this workshop, Roman and Jutta want to highlight recurring common smells teams often trap into when following an agile approach. Additionally, we will collect recommendations how to avoid and to get out of these traps. With the combined experience of both the workshop facilitators and the participants, we want make smells transparent, help to prevent failure and to set up teams for success.

Jutta Eckstein, a partner of IT communication, is an independent consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her book 'Agile Software Development in the Large'. Besides engineering software she has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many 'train the trainer' programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques which help teach OT and is a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at ACCU (UK), JAOO (Denmark), OOPSLA (USA), XP (Europe) and Agile (USA). She is a member of the board of the AgileAlliance and a member of the program committee of many different European and American conferences in the area of agile development, object-orientation and patterns.

Smells in Agile Software Development

Jutta Eckstein (IT communication)

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams, Planning Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

Discovery Sessions · Individuals & Teams, Planning

Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5