Agile Practitioners 2012 conference | Creating change from within

Creating change from within – the agile developer story

Presentation abstract

Faced with management that do not care about “being agile” what can a single developer do? Quite a lot!
Every developer has the power to improve the organization he works in in small iterative steps – and I can show you how.

If you want to make the change and don’t know where to start – look no further, in this session I’ll share my experience and show a few tips and tricks I learnt. As well as discuss the do and don’ts that can make all the difference.
- How to be agile developer in a waterfall company.
- Influencing people without formal authority.
- Using the right practices that makes the difference
- How to avoid alienating people
- Discovering your allies
- Know when to fight and when to “retreat” and cut your losses
- Making a change without disrupting the daily routine
- What being an agile evangelist is all about

About the speaker – Dror Helper

Dror Helper is an experienced software developer that has written and designed software in various fields including video streaming, eCommerce, performance optimization and unit testing tools.

He is passionate about programming best practices and all things software

development, and has been a guest presenter at several user groups and ALT.NET events.

Dror’s blog can be found at http://blog.drorhelper.com where he writes about unit testing, agile methodologies, development tools, programming languages and anything else he finds interesting.