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Agile & Lean Origins

We are Spin42…

Marc

Thibault Loïc

Town: Braine L’alleud

Skills: He teaches Agility to Chuck Norris

Town: Louvain la Neuve

Skills: His first book was Metaprogramming Ruby

Town: Louvain la Neuve

Skills: He speaks as fast as he codes

A history of Agile

1968 - 1969

75% of projects fail

OMG! CRISIS!

Meanwhile in Japan

1950 - 1970

W. Edwards Deming

Act

Plan

Do

Study

90s kids will remember

We’ve been building software for 4 decades

and we still don’t know how to do it

right…

Scrum 95’

XP 99’

Crystal Clear 99’

FDD 97’

DSDM 94’

2001 An Agile Odyssey

The Agile Manifesto

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive

documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

Lean Software Development 03’

Kanban 10’

BDD 09’

Lean Startup 11’

What now?

Chaos Bureaucracy

Questions ? @mlainez @spin42