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Bringing Agile to Universities
A journey to the academic world
@mlainezMarc Lainez
What are the obstacles when adopting Agile?
It’s hard to change how people think
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson -
It’s hard to change bad habits
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin -
Barriers to agile adoption
http://www.versionone.com/state_of_agile_development_survey/11/
Ability to change organizational culture
Availability of personnel with right skills
General resistance to change 39%
40%
52%
You need the right mindset
And make this guy embrace it!
We have really good agilists for that!
Helping people and companies
http://leanpub.com/WhoIsAgile@YvesHanoulle
But sometimes it’s already too late...
How can we help?
Focus on universities
We need to open students minds to Agilewith projects, workshops, lectures
30hrs delivered so fara lot more preparing...
still more to come...
Brussels - ULB
University Antwerp
UCLLouvain-la-Neuve
UMons UMons - Charleroi
Great! But...
walk into universities
One does not simply
We got back in touch with our assistant teachersstudent organizations in other campuses
We organized lectures and workshops
Lectures to show students how it is like to
work on an “Agile” project
Adapting the schedule to the different campuses we went to
We presented Agile techniques in the context of a fictional project
http://www.slideshare.net/agilecampustour
We got great feedback!
And improved on the way, but still...
“It’s for small projects”
“Not technical enough”
“It’s not for serious projects”
“It’s project management, I don’t really feel concerned”
“It’s not going deep enough”
Assumptions are hard to kill...
Use visuals
Be dynamic
Involve them
Some examples :)
How complex is it to get from those fruits a small piece you could eat?
3
How many can you eat in 1 minute?
User story writing and estimation
workshop
We tried poker planning with them
And explained business value with poker chips
Time-box
Get help!
Self-organizing team and pair-programming workshop
Using a simple Kanban
TDD is hard to teach to students...
Cyber-dojo.com@JonJagger
“TDD+Pair Programming = Super”
“I wish we could do that more often”
“Frustrating but awesome!”
“I’d like to do more stuff like that on my projects”
“I liked working with somebody else”
Make sure they have everything needed on their computers
If you need IT support in the uni, do it way before the workshop
Great, but did it change anything?
What now?
Open library Co-Working
Agile Summer Camp Academic seminar about Agile
You could do the same in your city or country...
And contribute to create a more Agile generation!
