Agile project management has attracted ever greater attention for the past few months in Luxembourg. As part of Agile Partner continuous effort to bring a comprehensive range of agile-related services in the local market we partnered with Danube Technologies to organize the first Certified ScrumMaster course in Luxembourg.
Luxembourg is candidate to host an event as part of the Agile Tour 2009.
After a great success in 2008, Agile Tour is coming back with a series of non-profit events over several cities, including Luxembourg, throughout October 2009.
The objectives of this event is to massively promote agility, share our visions of agility, federate agile practitioners and support new adopters of agility.
Be prepared for a highly visible and fun event!
The Q1 Edition of the PMI-ISSIG Review is now available. You can view the Q1 PMI-ISSIG Review from this link or view the PMI-ISSIG Review archive at this link.
Articles featured in this edition include the following:
We had real fun during our joint event with PMI on February 5th, 2009! Around 50 people attended actively participated in the agile experience. Several topics were covered, but also the form of the event demonstrated key principles and practices of agile project management.
Thanks to the panelists and to all the participants!
Many steps of project management were already proposed. But the advent of new technologies justifies the search of better adapted methodologies to more dynamic projects; the product of these efforts crystallizes today in the Unified Process (UP) and the agile methods.
Structured around the phases and the activities of the Unified Process, this course shows how you manage a project by following an iterative process. It allows you to acquire the necessary competences with the modern project management: requirements management (identification, follow-up and evolution’s management), risks management, scheduling techniques related to the iterative and incremental development.
Organized around a case of study followed throughout the session, it will provide you the keys of scheduling and project follow-up: ” How to estimate the load and the duration of the project? “, ” How to structure planning? ” , ” How to define the contents of the iterations? ” , ” How to manage Teams? ” , ” How to follow up the project? ” , ” Which assessment to draw? “.
You are going to learn
- Applying the Unified Process into a software development project
- Positioning UP with other Project Management Methodologies
- Knowing the terminology, the characteristics and the good practices of UP
- Delimiting the functional perimeter of a project and identifying the principal functionalities
- Managing in a proactive way the risks in the software development
- Knowing the principal methods of macro-estimates and to apply the method of the user’s cases
- Cutting your Project in Phases and Iterations
- Using the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule an Iteration.
- Recognizing the’ importance of test activities in the iterative development
- Project Management Follow up and reporting
- Organizing the capitalization
We are happy to announce the next event of the agile community in Luxembourg on 5 February 2009!
This original session will be managed as an agile project. The participants will prioritise the proposed discussion topics according to their interest. The agenda will be defined collaboratively by the panel of speakers and the audience, and organised in iterative sessions to benefit from early feedback and adapt to changes. This approach will demonstrate how agile project management deals with areas such as estimation, planning, change management, and continuous improvement. The participants will learn from both the speakers’ presentations and the organisation of the session itself.
Feel free to suggest topics for the panel by sending an email to jan09event@ agile-lu.org before 22 January 2009.
Date: Thursday, 5 February 2009
- 18h30 Registrations
- 19h00 Presentation
- 21h00 Networking cocktail
Venue: Sofitel Luxembourg Europe, Kirchberg
Free parking
Participation Fees: None
Sponsors: Agile Partner, Optima Consulting
Thank you.
QCon London Enterprise Software Development Conference
InfoQ.com third annual QCon London conference is coming back to the UK. The event is taking place March 11-13, 2009. Last year’s QCon London had over 450 registrants & 100 speakers.
Visit the event web site for more info.
Here you can download the Press Interview of the Agile Lux Board. Agile in Lux Board: Alain Rouen, Alain Maquet, Stéphane Carré, Sylvain Chery, Pierre Neis itnews-decembre-08-agile-group.pdf
Here you can download Sylvain’s presentation at Devoxx Conference last Monday.
Theme: SCRUM Overview
Summary:
- Scrum is a simple process framework: 3 Roles, 4 Meetings, 4 Artifacts, a few Rules
- Visbility, Inspection & Adaptation
- It’s not an easy journey: Demanding for both developers and other stakeholders
- Win-win for the customer and the team
Voici le livre blanc largement diffusé lors des Valtech Days (Paris La Défense les 21-22 octobre 2008).
LIVRE BLANC élaboré par la communauté Agile de Valtech Technology, forte de 30 consultants,seniors et experts, sous la direction de Hubert GILLON, Delivery Manager, responsable de l’activitéprojet offshore.
Titre: Livre Blanc - Adoption des méthodes Agiles dans les projets IT - Plus de maîtrise, plus de valeur, plus tôt et plus vite
Livre Blanc - Adoption des méthodes Agiles dans les projets IT