{"id":587,"date":"2012-10-26T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agile.logihelgu.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2012-10-26T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:06:16","slug":"fridaysermon-about-agile-and-scrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logihelgu.com\/agile\/fridaysermon-about-agile-and-scrum\/","title":{"rendered":"FridaySermon about Agile and Scrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attened a “sermon” about Agile & Scrum held at\/by Advania at their HQ
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\nAdvania offers good day<\/strong>
\nGuest G. Gestsson, CEO Advania<\/em>
\nQuick into about Advania, it was even pretty good for a marketing introduction, nice slides and only 5 minutes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

AgileNeti\u00f0 in Brief<\/strong>
\nL\u00edsa J\u00f3hanna \u00c6varsd\u00f3ttir, PR for Agile-neti\u00f0<\/em>
\nIn reaaly brief she told about Agileneti\u00f0<\/a> that is the network of companies in Iceland that met regularly through “sceince” trips to the companies and have regular Open Spaces to talk about Agile stuff. Today there are only 22 companies (up from 10 in 2010) and there seem to be many more that are going Agile and should be part of this network.<\/p>\n

English is Agile software development – what happens next?<\/strong>
\nBaldur Kristj\u00e1nsson, Advania<\/em>
\nScrum\/Agile introduction to ensure that everybody was up to speed since there were many attendees that aren’t familiar with Agile. Also went over some examples he had worked on and the history of Agile in Iceland.<\/p>\n

Valitor, how Agile has revolutionized working methods of the company<\/strong>
\nDan\u00edel M\u00e1ni J\u00f3nsson, head of software development at Valitor<\/em>
\nHe had nice slides in Prezi, setup as a Scrum wall with all the tickes on the board being post-it stickers that were the “slides” he went through. Talked about how they have successfully moved the whole company into Scrum and some things they were trying out.<\/p>\n

Development of a new constitution with Agile methods<\/strong>
\nVilhj\u00e1lmur \u00deorsteinsson, the Constitutional Assembly member (and chairman at CCP)<\/em>
\nIt was really enlightening to see that they did use iterative methods to create the new proposal and that they only had about 3 months to get the job done. I quickly recognized slides from Finnur P\u00e1lmi and Vilhj\u00e1mur did mention that the cool slides were from Finnur \ud83d\ude09 Rather impressing how they planned & did the work with good control on meetings, breaking the 25 members into 3 groups that had different meeting during the week and I think they did a pretty good job considering the time limit and that they had to start from scratch.<\/p>\n

Agile2 – not just for software projects<\/strong>
\nGunnar Sigurj\u00f3nsson, consultant at Advania<\/em>
\nHe went over some new ideas in Agile and where it might be heading and what people are trying out. Maybe I was just tired but I didn’t feel that this lecture was enough to the point and didn’t quite hold my attention \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

The invite might still be up at
\nhttp:\/\/www.advania.is\/um-advania\/atburdir\/frett\/2012\/10\/26\/Fostudagsmessa-um-Agile-og-Scrum\/
\n<\/a> and then the slides should appear in the not so distant future \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

And a few points I jotted down:<\/p>\n