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Clarus is delighted to confirm our sponsorship of the Christchurch Agile Professionals Network.
Agile is rapidly becoming a mainstream approach for delivering high business value. Interest in Agile has grown considerably in the last couple of years and we believe there is now sufficient interest to establish a Chch APN branch.
The Agile Professionals Network (APN) is non-profit, member-run community of New Zealand professionals focused on exploring and disseminating all facets of business agility in organisations in order to help New Zealand businesses maximize their return on investments and reduce overall time to market.
It is comprised of a group of New Zealand Agile practitioners committed to supporting each other in their use of Agile techniques and assisting businesses to experience business agility.
The mission of the APN is to be the leading forum for promoting appropriate use of, and increasing expertise in Agile techniques (Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Development, and Testing) throughout New Zealand.
The Christchurch APN has been established based upon the following:
- Charter: http://www.agileprofessionals.net/APN-Charter.htm
- Audience focus for the Chch branch" "supporting practitioners in implementing and carrying out agile").
- Our main activity will be "networking, support and learning for Agile practitioners bi-monthly".
Christchurch APN Launch Event Details
- Nancy van Schooenderwoert - Seven Paradoxes of Agile Software Development
- Date: Friday 16th October 4.30 to 6.30 pm; speaker starts at 5:00pm
- Place: Clarus, Level 1, LeftClick House, corner Lichfield and Madras Streets, Christchurch.
- Who: All welcome.
All attendees should register by
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by 5pm on 14th October.
Nancy van Schooenderwoert - Principal Coach at Lean-Agile Partners Inc. - The Seven Paradoxes of Agile Software Development
Agile software development has many very common-sense ideas in it, but if it was all common-sense we'd have been using it long ago. Agile also contains counter-intuitive ideas: paradoxes that make it hard for people accept. For example, the notion that we go fast BECAUSE we take quality to the max is paradoxical for people. They are used to having to trade off speed and quality. On the other hand the idea that those who do the work are best placed to estimate it is seen as perfectly sensible. How can a coherent design emerge if design is done one iteration at a time? Another paradox. But it's easy to accept that when you build a system iteratively, you can learn more quickly from your experiences - that's common sense. We'll explore the 5 other paradoxes, and you'll see how a grasp of these helps you to take your agile practices to the next level.
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