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Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 10:00am - 11:00am
Agile Leadership
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Agility without Complexity: Fast and Efficient Prior Year Content

The Agile Manifesto was stated in less than seventy words. Now, fourteen years later, layer upon layer have been added to it. What was supposed to be a simple philosophy has exploded into a gigantic industry. Much of this layering makes agile seem overly complex. We know developers want to focus on getting their work done, unhindered by rules and regulations. Developers should know the priorities of what to work on, do their work, report their progress, and be held accountable. This process should be supportive, not burdensome. Geoff Perlman shows how a small engineering team built a large project (Xojo) with new releases regularly, using a simplified agile process that gets the job done without adding complexity to the lives of the team. If your team is grumbling about your agile processes, join Geoff as he shows you how to focus on the “meat” of agile so you can be both fast and efficient—without the complexity.

1.00 PMI® PDU
Geoff Perlman
Geoff Perlman, Xojo, Inc.

Founder and CEO of Xojo, Inc., makers of Xojo, Geoff Perlman started his adventure into software development on a VAX mainframe when he was ten years old. Since then, Geoff has worked for companies as large as AT&T and as small as a one-man shop. While working in Silicon Valley, he authored a book on database development and taught programming to thousands of people. For most of his career, Geoff has been running companies he founded, always focused on finding the simplest way to solve complex problems.

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