XP 2000-2007: My Greatest Misses

J. B. Rainsberger (Independent Consultant)

Tutorials · Leadership

Friday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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Any successful recording artist eventually submits to releasing a "Greatest Hits" album. They collect their best-loved, most successful songs and put them into a neat package that not only provides great marketing material, but neatly sums up their career to that point. It therefore seems only fair that a beat-up XP coach who has been through the ringer a few times should collect his biggest and furthest-reaching mistakes, bring them together in a neat package and release them to the public. This is that talk.

This talk could also be named "Ten ways to guarantee your Agile transition is a total failure", or "Apologies of an XP coach"; however I'm sure I'll mention more than ten mistakes and I make no apology for them.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, and leave with a greater appreciation for the difficult task of helping people learn to become agile software practitioners.

J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger (me@jbrains.ca) is an author (JUnit Recipes), programmer, mentor, coach and consultant. Since 2000, Joe has been an agile practitioner, teacher, writer (IEEE Software magazine, jbrains.ca) and conference organizer (xpday.info). In 2005, he became one of the first recipients of the Gordon Pask award for contribution to agile software practice. In July he moved from Toronto to Dauphin, Manitoba with his wife, Sarah, and an array of cats.