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David Hussman
Agility Coach/Instructor/Practioner
Prior to working as a full time coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.
Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He is the recipient of the Agile Alliance, 2009 Gordon Pask Award. David continuously contributes to books and various publications.
For coaching information, presentations, and more, visit www.devjam.com
Presentations
Agility as a Tool: Getting Ready to Iterate
Many people simplistically apply agile recipes, assuming a one size fits all approach. This may lead to naive use beliefs like collocation breeds instant success. While sitting together always helps, it does not mean that people spontaneously collaborate to create sustainable value.
Instead of approaching agile methods like a recipe, this session will teach you to design agility that is a useful tool for your project community. We will cover practice selection ideas, tools for creating healthy development eco-systems and product discover tools. If you would like to improve the stickiness of your agility, stop in learn a pile of techniques to use before holding your first planning session.
Imagine you want to use agile methods and you’re looking for ideas from introduction to iteration, this is the path we will take. We start by will examining ideas for selecting which practices will improve your existing strengths and address your existing issues. From there, we will walk through growing product and customer knowledge, creating a collaborative work area and two levels of planning: planning to discover and planning to deliver.
Products and People over Process and Dogma
The time has come to shift our focus away from process to products and people. 10 years into the agile movement, the fresh, lightweight process once created are gaining weight and often calcifying to a dangerous degree. Where meaningful and lasting agility thrives, agile practices are powerful tools but not the focus of daily discussion.
Real value flows as development agility augments design thinking to continually discover your product context: users, use and market. From design thinking to lean start-ups to the value of simple checklists, this talk will challenge you to stop focusing on improving your process and start focusing on improving your product. Come ready to think, question and rethink your use of agile practices.
Redesigning Agility: Incorporating Design Thinking
Design tends to mean one thing to developers and another thing to designers. The later group are product designers and are not aware of the structure of the code.
The hipsters in the agile community are trying to blend product design into the process of coding and delivering software. This session discusses what to do after your agility is flowing, or post agilism: imagine you using agile methods successfully, what's next?
Starting with the state of state of agile methods today, we will discuss ways to incorporate discovery and design into the delivery vehicle provided by agile practices. You will find this session an excellent forum to discuss "what's next?" in a post agilist world.
