1. Experiences from years of agile coaching by Jimmy Nilsson

2. About Jimmy Nilsson Primarily a developer and architect, but also a trainer and author Blog: JimmyNilsson.com/blog/ Twitter: twitter.com/JimmyNilsson Author of ”Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns” and ”.NET Enterprise Design” Co-founder and CEO of factor10

3. Agenda Some obvious Some surprising Some most important But first, let’s take a step back

4. My view of the world $ Why? What? How? ”Code” ? ? ? And so on

5. Part I: Some obvious

6. The question “why go agile?”… …is quite often not answered

7. Checkbox agile… …doesn’t work too well

8. If project managers are behind the initiative… …expect focus on process

9. Scrum or Kanban… …people over process?

10. Engineering practices are hard to implement… …but easy to skip when the going gets tough

11. Telling isn’t enough… …experiencing it is a more effective way of learning

12. A forgotten practice… …with built in coaching Pair programming!

13. Part II: Some surprising

14. The better the team… …the more they learn from coaching

15. More than 10 000 km apart… …but the problems are the same

16. …however dealing with the problems is different

17. “We would like to learn X”… …but they need Y, Z and K first

18. BDD works surprisingly well… …with the business people

19. Well-known books and authors… …are kidnapped for the wrong intentions

20. Part III: Some most important

21. Scrum+XP is a common combination, but… …DDD a missing piece

22. The codebase… …is the bottleneck

23. Software economics Complexity Productivity Question is, do we have essential or accidental complexity?

24. Process, engineering practices, DDD, great code etc are necessary… …but not sufficient

25. References The big picture of software development http://jimmynilsson.com/blog/posts/TheBigPictureOfSwD.htm It works both ways http://jimmynilsson.com/blog/posts/ItWorksBothWays.htm The holistic view http://niclasnilsson.se/articles/2008/02/29/the_holistic_view/ Playing coaches http://niclasnilsson.se/articles/2008/04/27/playing_coaches/ Goldratt: Necessary but not sufficient Goldratt: Theory of constraints