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Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 11:30am to 12:30pm

Experience Agile Emergence through Sketch Comedy

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“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” Most people read this principle from the Agile Manifesto and focus on the self-organization element. What about the concept of emergence? Exactly how do requirements and designs emerge? And how do self-organizing teams enable emergence? Get a hands-on lesson on emergence and self-organization using an unlikely source of inspiration: sketch comedy. John Krewson leads courageous delegates to envision, write, rehearse, and perform an episode of The Waterfall Comedy Hour. Others watch the process unfold and provide feedback along the way. Throughout the process, you’ll experience the difference between emergence and specification, the benefits of iterative and incremental delivery, and the power of a self-organized team with a shared goal.

John Krewson
Sketch Development Services

John Krewson is the founder and president of Sketch Development Services, a software development studio that provides agile coaching, consulting, and training. Sketch delivers software for its customers using agile principles and practices, and helps organizations with their agile transformations. John recently led the agile transformation for MasterCard Worldwide, scaling agility to 10,000 team members across six continents and multiple product lines. He was previously an agile coach with VersionOne, where he helped dozens of companies learn, adopt, and apply Agile, Scrum, and lean/kanban principles and practices. In a prior life, John was a professional actor who, among other credits, appeared on Saturday Night Live. Learn more about John and Sketch.