Austin's Lean Software Community
This month’s chalk talk addresses a hold-over from recent traditions of software development organizational behaviors that keeps even experienced agile teams straddling a methodological conundrum, with one foot in agile and one foot in waterfall. The traditional hand-off between implementation and testing is a phase-based workflow that causes and perpetuates waste and reduces productivity. Challenging the fundamental assumptions of this kind of organization will help us to explore alternatives, and to explore Lean production imperatives that inevitably lead to very different conclusions about how teams and process are organized.
Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Scott is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and AgileATX communities of software practitioners. He is the organizer of the Monospace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and has served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. Scott is a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award.