a tour of agile tour beirut 2013
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A TOUR OF AGILE TOUR BEIRUT 2013
Opening Session
Videos
Ice Breaker
Workshops
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AGILE TOUR BEIRUT 2013KEY FACTS
90 Attendees22 companies
12 workshops 3 tracks
11 Speakers
Low Fees Event
59$
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The 11th Speakers 2013 Conference
Jad Harb (Murex - Lebanon) -Youssef Chakker (Keeward - Lebanon)– Regis monot (RM formation – France) – Diala Lteif (Alba – Lebanon) – Pierre Hervouet (Agile Lebanon – Lebanon) Joumana Matter (Mirada Madrid – Lebanon) – Graig Morisson (Murex – France) – Arnaut bailly (Murex - Paris) – Rania Khoury (Scrum Arabia -Lebanon)- Julien Masloun=m (OutSofting– China) – Pierre Neis (We & Co – Luxembourg)
Jad Lebanon
Jad Lebanon
Youssef Lebanon
Youssef Lebanon Diala
Lebanon
Diala Lebanon
Joumana
Lebanon
Joumana
Lebanon
RegisFrance
RegisFrance
PierreLebanonPierreLebanon
Arnaud
France
Arnaud
France
JulienChina
JulienChina
PierreLuxemburgPierre
Luxemburg
GraigFranceGraigFrance
JoanaLebanonJoanaLebanon
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Best wishes From the Agile community
Donald Reinertsen – USA - Owner, Reinertsen & Associates
Author of multiple books about product development among them
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development: 2009
David J Anderson USA - Founder of Lean Kanban University
Author of multiple books about agile among them
• Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe - BELGIUM• Organizer of XP days Benelux (11th Edition), and Agile Tour
Brussels
• Co-author of agile coach toolkit: http://www.agilecoach.net/
Laurent Morisseau - FRANCE• Author Of :Kanban pour l'IT: « Une nouvelle méthode pour
améliorer les processus de développement »
Claude Aubry FRANCE• Author of Scrum (2010 – 3rd edition)
Steven tendon – Malta• Author of Tame the Flow
And also
Zsolt Fabok – Hungary - Kaizen Team Member at Prezi, Christophe Keromen - FRANCE - Organizer of Agile Tour 2013 Vannes, Michael Leber - Austria - Organiser of Agile Tour Vienna 2013, Oana Juncu - France Board member Agile Tour Worldwide & ALE 2011 Organizer, Dave Nicolette – USA – Agile Lean Consultant
Before starting the event, a small video where some Key players of the Agile community wished the best for the Agile Tour
To see the video Click on the buttom bellow
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Opening Session During his vide0 introducing Agile principles, Mr Ahmed Sidky make emphasized the importance of collecting feed-backs during all of the project life cycle.
• Feed-backs help to clarify the client requirements
• Increase the delivered value
• Improve the process
• …
Ahmed Sidyk is the Executive Director of ICAgile , Principal of SCG and one of the key actor in the US Agile community
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
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Ice Breaker Because an Agile conference is about networking and fun, The conference was launched by a giant ice-breaker where the attendees created a 10 meters physical facebook wall
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
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My Product is a James Bond Movie! I don’t want a product. I want THE PRODUCT. I
want that my product looks like a James Bond Movie to my users! Agile is built around first class engineering practices, quality & testing. That have worked well, for many years.
Benefits for attendees
Scrum explained from a product development perspective. Product Ownership and powerful Product/Service design
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
60+ 45mn
Pierre Neis - Luxemburg
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Demystifying the Lean Startup
Through explanations, games and small case studies, attendees demystified the basics of the Lean Startup method.
In particular we saw:- Lean startup: What it really is. What are its origins and purpose? - How does it relate to Agile?-
Benefits for attendees
Participants learned the Importance of the customer understanding as the primary measure of progress.They saw how to build software & learnt to know about what the customer really wants while delivering what you think he wants.Discover some practical ways to identify and manage customer assumptionsAgile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
60+ 45mn
Julien Mazloum – China
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I’m not a Bottleneck! I’m Free Man
The session introduced the Theory of Constraints, Lean and Agile with a playful simulation. After the simulation, participants applied the techniques to real-world cases in a workshop.
Benefits for attendees
Experienced how the “Five Focusing Steps” from the Theory of Constraints quickly makes clear where and how to improve processes. Played with Lean and Agile techniques in a simulation.
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
30 Max
90mn
Jad Harb – Lebanon
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I want my Lego city
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Let’s build a city in Lego according to the Client requirements and discover the scrum framework. In this workshop attendees experimented and understood the Agile Scrum Methodology
Benefits for attendees
Experienced how the scrum framework, increased the delivery of value to the client.
The importance of collaborations, continuous improvement, and the relevant metrics
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
30 Max
90mn
Khoury – Lebanon
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« A la carte » .
The rules were simple, the attendees chose the game they wanted to play.
Everyone got two votes for which topics they wanted to discuss first. This built the prioritization. The agenda and the order were both popularly devised.
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
30 Max
90mn
Pierre Hervouet - Lebanon
Benefits for attendees
The attendees played 3 games where they discovered how multi-tasking is the obstacle #1 in efficient processes, understood the necessity of proper prioritization, and they addressed the challenges of delegation.
Cards of the Delegation Poker game that the attendees playedversion 1.01http://www.management30.com/delegation-poker/
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Change! building a high performing company through agile...
Agile sounds cool... agile sounds to be the "silver bullet" to transform your company in a winning one. But.... because there is almost a but... how is this feasible? Pierre came and explained what the plans, what's the hits, what to change, how to change...
Benefits for the attendees:
This session explained real experience in several contexts like off-shoring, globalized organization, startups and government. There are some emerging patterns helping you in your transition
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
60+ 45mn
Pierre Neis – Luxemburg
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Introducing Agile at Your Company Keeward is a growing company, building on small
successes and expanding. But the fast growth and rapid changes highlighted the inefficiencies in the development process. It was the perfect time to introduce Agile.
In this session Youssef presented a good use case of introducing Agile in a company, along with examples of things that work, things that don't, and lessons learnt.
Benefits for the attendees:
Through a real case study, participants understood what are the challenges during an Agile Implementation.
They got some practical insights on a proper Agile deployment
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
60+ 45mn
Youssef Chakker - Lebanon
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Fractal Test Driven Development
Test Driven Development is often understood and practiced "in-the-small". When done properly it is a great way to drive the programming process towards code (more manageable, more resilient, contains fewer bugs, simpler, cleaner, modular But TDD can also be applied "in-the-large" as a way to drive development of the whole system, feature by feature as has been advocated and exemplified most notable by the so-called "London School of Testing", lead by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce.
Benefits for the attendees:
The attendees learnt how TDD can be applied at various levels, from high-level business-facing end-to-end tests to detailed coding of single class and methods and introduces various techniques and tools (in the Java ecosystem) to support this practice.Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
30 90 mn
Arnaud Bailly & Greg Morisson - France
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Design The Box .
When you create a product/service how do you decide which solutions to develop and which to set aside? In this hands-on workshop, participants learn to focus on their users and to develop solutions based on the moments of delight and discomfort and to visualize the impact on their daily life.
Benefits for attendees
Incorporating different user requirements and investigating the impact of each solution on the overall user experience
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
30 Max
90mn
Joumana Mattar – LebanonDiala Lteif – Lebanon
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Theater as a tool to improve team work and your leadership It was an interacting presentation mixing acting
and didactic presentation of the characters & masks of the Italian theater Comedian Dell Arte.
Such presentation are welcome in Agile Conferences, because we are looking for mind opener. This was in fact the best rated workshop
Benefits for attendees:
Through the understanding of the 7 characters of the Comedia Dell Arte the attendees got a better understanding of the individual and collective dynamics of group.
Agile Tour Beirut 2013 - Berytech
3090 mn
Regis Monot – France
Agile LebanonPierre HervouetMail: [email protected]: 00 961.(0)3.665.755facebook\agilelebanon