July 23rd - 28th, 2007 - Introduction to Agility for Practitioners

By Matt Gelbwaks, Globant´s Chief Agilist

Globant offered a course on Agile Methodologies as part of the ECI (Informatics Science School from the University of Buenos Aires). Matt Gelbwaks, our Chief Agilist, imparted this course for a group of more than twenty people.

Our program:

• Day 1 - Introduction to Agility: the manifesto, the practices and the benefits "Why do I want to be Agile?"
• Day 2 - The Planning Game Planning, Estimating, Velocity "what does it feel like to be agile"
• Day 3 - The Deming Cycle Planning Chartering, Roles & Responsibilities Release and Iteration Planning Doing, Checking, and Acting Writing Good Stories Estimating Stand-ups and Retrospectives Means of Visibility
• Day 4 - Hey, Let's Charter! The Chartering Game: Experience is the best teacher
• Day 5 - Lesson's Learned Retrospectives Agile in real life - how to apply the principles to other things other than just software and why you might do that Questions and answers

More information on http://www.dc.uba.ar/events/eci/2007/whatis