"thank you very much um uh Martin and I are here to talk this morning about why agile software development works not just how because you can uh go out in the world and find a lot of books about agile ..."

"so very very well uh we both work for Thought works and we're a well-known agile software development company and uh We've proven to ourselves for more than a decade that these things work really well..."

"mainstream alternative and we see major conferences we see certifications we see a lot of these trappings of a more mature approach to developing software but in the course of all of this development ..."

"judge whether it's applicable to their situation now semantic diffusion as I say it's a common problem with many things and and really one of the key things you have to do to deal with it is to just c..."

"the idea is that the plan is a prediction of how the work should go and this also very much affects your success criteria because to be successful the measure of success in a plan- driven world is to ..."

"software projects I ask this question are your requirements stable in fact I'll ask you this question now how many of you are working on software where you've got um requirements that are unstable but..."

"but it goes a little bit further in this phrase that I really like from Mary pendick what she's saying here of course is that not just should we be tolerant of changes of of requirements we should act..."

"planning now one thing I should point out in order to make adaptive planning work you have to change your approach in your thinking towards software design and to come up instead with an evolutionary ..."

"planning so for the second distinction I want to show this rather old photograph does anybody recognize who this is h no not Ford but you're philosophically very close to him Taylor Taylor yes Frederi..."

"now the point of what Alistair is saying here is that we tend because we're computer people to be used to manipulating these highly precise things called computers and plugging them together in fact I..."

"works is communication so let's talk a bit about communication as it applies to software development in our world communication trumps technology meaning that we View communication as a more important..."

"important thing and part of the reason for this is that we are highly social creatures notice that the worst punishment in prison is solitary confinement the worst punishment in prison is being taken ..."

"cannot specify enough on paper to allow them to be able to create something and you break that feedback communication loop with those developers who are now isolated many many time zones away now it's..."

"value of communication because if you look at the agile Manifesto there are two items on here that specifically call this out out as an important feature individuals and interactions over processes an..."

"but part of the problem was that they're collecting all these uh this information this data and on paper and then shipping it to a central office but of course Malawi doesn't have particularly good in..."

"they're doing there finding the correct Communication channel was the key to solving this problem and it turns out that that shows up a lot in agile software development as well finding the correct fe..."

"his story um the other part of this story is taking a shower and typically in a hotel room that you've never been in before so what's the difference between taking a shower in an unknown hotel room an..."

"and controls we have a process that we do and a certain outcome that we expect from the process when we're working in the world of a defined process such as a fruit cake what we do is we understand th..."

"of the heat of the shower and so what I do is I will run the shower for a bit stick my hand in is that too warm is it too hot adjust the shower appropriately I get in maybe you know it's okay at the b..."

"interactions with process Engineers from the chemical industry um originally Ken had been a developer of software to support traditional approaches he had clients like Cooper and liebrand who he would..."

"dangerous instead you have to choose an empirical process and this of course is how it notion to software in software as I mentioned earlier on we have all of these unpredictable nonlinear components ..."

"to mention um a few of them so to illustrate one of them I'm going to show you our office building in Beijing we only have one floor of this office and the interesting thing is that you can tell from ..."

"project various tasks that we need to carry out um captured as user stories will be stuck up on the wall and that position on the wall indicates how far we are have we decided to start work on them ye..."

"was something very complicated and something that most developers on the team didn't care to want to understand and they knew it was all fiction anyway but with a an agile project you want everybody t..."

"able to see the card wall everywhere that matters and so we have an electronic card wall but mimics the physical one that we use when we're all together as a team most teams will prefer a physical car..."

"one here we're using something that is a more computerized display but again this notion of where are we in the process and so that when the build breaks everybody can tell and everybody can do someth..."

"other people can take advantage of it and thoughtworks as a company has a very long history of open sourcing these infrastructural elements to help support agile software development like continuous i..."

"quality of what we have and we do this right from the beginning of the project so we have a constant feedback loop as to the quality of the software and whether it's appropriate enough and that again ..."

"now have used widely at forw Works pair programming is very controversial early on and now we use it very heavily there are many reasons why it's effective but um to illustrate one of them I would lik..."

"particularly like about this shot is that it is the vegetable garden it is a working vegetable garden and the vegetables are used um in the restaurant at the Chateau um and yet at the same time they a..."

"music um this kind of way of thinking about the brain of course is very common um one book that I very much recommend if you're interested in in thinking about how the brain works in terms of software..."