I Made a Presentation at Scrum Gathering Vietnam 2015
Introduction
My friend, Kiro said "How about talk in Scrum Gathering Vietnam 2015 ?" to me. And I applied to CFP and it passed!
I went to Vietnam and made a presentation on 5/29.
It was the first time to go to Vietnam, and was the time to be a speaker of conference.
My Presentation
A purpose of my presentation is "sharing my experience to spread Agile Samurai *1 mindset to fast growing organization", and the following is slide.
In the first, there are 5 audiences, but finally it became 50 in about 15 mins, so I'm really amazed :O And in and after my presentation, many audiences asked me to many kinds of thinks so I'm really happy :)
At the same time, I can refine my presentation more and more, so I'll continue to do a lot efforts. It's great experience for me!
I also got a kind support by organizers. Thank you very much :)
In the Last
I'm happy and proud to attend and speak in the first held conference in Vietnam :)
During my presentation, I heard many people googled Agile Samurai. It's hot if Agile Samurai become a hit book in Vietnam as Japan.
Thank you very much for everyone in the Scrum Gathering Vietnam :) :)
*1:Agile Samurai is a book covers agile mindset and skills widely with easy expression. The author of Agile Samurai, Jonathan Rasmusson, would like to summarize 7 Agile books. So it is nice to read for not only people who is already knows agile but also people who doesn't know agile. In Japan, Agile Samurai sales about 30,000 copies. Japanese IT hit books can be said 20,000 copies so Agile Samurai is one of the big hit books.
Scrum Gathering Vietnam 2015 CFP申請通過メモ
はじめに
CFP申請通過した時の文章を残します。
通過時点の文章なので、本番では多少の変更点があります。
この記事を書いている時点で発表は終えてます。まとめ記事をあとで書きます。
Short biography
I'm a programmer, project manager, and agile practitioner. I develops smartphone applications with Objective-C and Rails, and am a one of a co-translators of Agile Samurai wrote by Jonathan Rasmusson and it sells about 30,000 copies in Japan.
Topic
Our Endeavor to Spread Agile Mindset to Fast Growing Organization
Short topic description
A company which I belongs to is growing fast. Therefore it becomes to have a lot of problems. To tackle them, we formed a special team. One of our effective done activities was to read Agile Samurai. Through the activity, we could share agile mindset among members involving non-programmers. Finally, the group becomes a place to set the stage for doing each member's action.
Goal of the session
Sharing my experience of spreading agile mindset to a fast growing company.
Type of topic
Scrum Applied
Speak types
Presentation
Session duration
30 mins
Outline
How can a fast growing organization adopt agile?
I'll share my half-year experience of spreading agile mindset to a fast growing company. IGNIS LTD. where I work is a smartphone application development company and has grown from 30 people to more than 100 people within these two years. The number of concurrent running projects has changed from around 5 to 25. The term of projects is becoming longer to develop some products which make a stable benefit. Our situation is becoming remarkably complicated.
Therefore we have many problems, for example, some team members are suddenly assigned another project without an agreement between both projects and it gives them a serious confusion, some team members misunderstand definition of DONE and it causes communication mismatch, and so on. Transferring mindset and skills to run long-term project as a team was the biggest problem we've faced.
Applying agile methods to a fast growing organization has different kinds of difficulties compared to doing that to a stable organization. As you know, developing smartphone applications involve various roles including producers, designers, and programmers. To tackle the problem, we formed a special team named "Agile Guild" in October 31, 2014.
Agile Guild has done many activities for half a year. One that was effective was to form a group reading of Agile Samurai. Agile Samurai by Jonathan Rasmusson covers wide variety of topics related to Agile, and it was useful to invite non-programmers to the group. I'll talk about tips how to involve non-programmers to these activities with the experience of organizing reading groups.
Agile Guild is still actively working to spread agile mindset. I hope I can share some of the recent activities too.
