It is easy to get lost in and disillusioned with the industry that has grown up around agile development.
Many attempts at adopting more agile ways of working can quickly become stuck in prescriptive and rigid lists of practices, rituals and artefacts.
Daily stand-ups degenerate into report meetings. Story points become a meaningless currency to be traded and haggled over. Incremental development becomes an unwavering and overplanned roadmap with only one road.
Far from being agile and adaptive, most of what is called 'agile' is rigid and steeped in orthodoxy.
This masterclass returns to the motivations and underlying principles of what makes a development approach, an organisation or a codebase agile.
Get to know Kevlin
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people.
Kevlin has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He's a co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.
He also writes short fiction, with a particular emphasis on flash fiction, and performs at spoken word events. He has helped organise events for National Flash-Fiction Day, the Bristol Festival of Literature and the Flash in Hand open mic evening in Bristol.
As this training is Part-Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund there will be some paperwork for attendees to complete (this only needs completing once and is not required for every masterclass).
This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council has been chosen by Government as a Lead Authority for the fund and is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
