Ever since Danilo came out of ETH as a Master of Computer Science, he's been focussing on quality aspects of software engineering. While his untiring struggle for better testing acceptance in the communities rambles on, the focus shifted slightly to analysing development processes in projects in the last decade, where he gathered experience working in multi-continental teams.

In his free time, he reads and discusses philosophy and sociology topics.

LOCATION: Luzern
KEYWORDS: Agile, Lessons learned

SPEAKER: Danilo Biella   COMPANY: Sidenis AG
SLIDES: 200115_Zen_ofAgile-Static.pdf

• Why doesn't agile work?
• Did agile make us more balanced?
• Has the software quality increased?
• Can old people be agile?
• Is testing agile?
• Does it scale?
• What are all these philologists doing in IT projects?

In the past years, many different and even contradicting approaches of "agile" have entered the scene.
Depending on the origin, knowledge, interest and intention of the involved people, they diverge a lot and contradict each other, some even get esoteric. This causes a new type of dissonance, which is the opposite of what agile approaches originally intended to achieve.

Let's look at a number of prominent understandings of agile to get a holistic view, but also brighten the corners to see if we can uncover "fake" agile. We won't find answers to all questions, but instead try and identify underlying problems and sources of misunderstandings.

LEVEL OF TALK: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Ever since Danilo came out of ETH as a Master of Computer Science, he's been focussing on quality aspects of software engineering. While his untiring struggle for better testing acceptance in the communities rambles on, the focus shifted slightly to analysing development processes in projects in the last decade, where he gathered experience working in multi-continental teams.

In his free time, he reads and discusses philosophy and sociology topics.

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