The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg) on 'How Agile Works -- Complexity and Agility'.

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How Agile Works -- Complexity and Agility =========================================

When: Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 002 (<= NB *** not 001! ***)

Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/

Speaker ------- Joseph Pelrine

Agenda ------

17h15-18h30 Talk and Q/A

Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

Abstract ========

The use of so-called "Agile" methods such as eXtreme Programming and Scrum has helped many software projects to success, although it’s not always clear why and how. An understanding of the roots of agility, though, is is a requirement for adopting and adapting agile processes in organizations. New research in the field of social complexity theory provides an explanation for when and how agile methods work. By using techniques from this relatively new field, developers and managers can more easily adapt agile methods to the idiosyncracies of specific organizations and projects, are more aware of weak signals that can lead to problems, and can design interventions to correct them.

This talk provides a short introduction to social complexity theory, especially the Cynefin multi-ontological sense-making framework, and illustrates its application to agile software development.

Bio ===

Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process, and is one of Europe's leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe's first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. His work focus is on field of social complexity and its application to Agile processes.

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