Keynote speakers called the attention of most people, Kanban was one of the topics that was present in many sessions but there were also many other presentations that also disserve to be mentioned.
“Can agile be adopted in great organizations?” was one of the initial sessions and presented 4 different visions about different topics related to the question presented. Among them Tiago Garcez discussed about the importance of generating an environment of trust and collaboration and Martín Alaimo presented his experience with regards to evaluations comparing the well known by all set-personal-goals/evaluate-performance/act-based-on-results with an evaluation based on group results.
“Being Agile While Trying to Do Many Things At Once” by Robert Walsh presented the challenges he faced adopting agile in a company where many projects were executed simultaneously by the same group of people. Apart from developing functionalities to new products they were responsible of the maintenance of about 20 interrelated products that requested enhancements. In this presentation he explained how working in pairs, over the most valuable requirements independently of the project and making releases frequently permitted be responsive to changing needs from the stakeholders.
In one of the last presentations Omar Mezarina, IBM Rational Software portfolio responsible for Perú, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, presented IBM Rational.
IBM Rational offers a collaborative environment that helps people and work groups to achieve their best performance. This environment is designed to interconnect development teams, that could be dispersed, and increase the individual and group productivity making possible the reduction of the software development cycles.
We talked with Omar and Armando Castillo. Armando had been in Uruguay the previous week working with TCS on trainings at KDC and after presenting details about the product recommended visiting http://jazz.net/ where more information, examples and trials are available.
Nota: En inglés ya que fue escrito para el sitio de TCM @Knowmax. Foto de Evelyn Veliz
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