I'd like to welcome everyone to our new Agile Transformation Zone community.   I say community ... right now, while there is some great initial content .. the community part is just getting started. It's like we've just built a brand new house and the family hasn't moved in.   As we all know, just like a house is not a home, this community space is only a space.   It's the people that make a community work.    My experience with building communities over the last several years indicates that you need 2 types of members (actually, you can break... [More]

Innovate 2012will be very special this year!  Register here ! Let's face it, IBM Developers don't get out of the office toooften. But when we do, we're lots of fun and thrilled to meet ourcustomers and learn what we can do to help them become more innovative,and improve their experience with our products.   We will have tons of stuff to help make your Agile deployments rock and your competitors roll. Below are the 11 Reasons Why Innovateis a must attend event for Developers Make new connections with gaggles of developers  – Network and... [More]

This event, running in the Product and Systems Engineering Community until 7 th December, is focused on how Agile practices can be adapted from software development and applied to the broader scope of product and systems engineering. This domain presents complex challenges for collaboration and integration between electrical and electronic, mechanical and software engineering disciplines to create products as varied as planes, automobiles, medical devices and consumer technologies. Key discussion themes include: Are Agile practices applicable... [More]

I recently posted a detailed blog entitled What Does "Disciplined Agile" Actually Mean  where I explore what it means to take a disciplined agile approach.  Although many agile practices require discipline the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework makes it clear that there are many more opportunities to improve your discipline than what is commonly discussed.  These include: Standard agile discipline Taking a goal driven approach  Taking a context driven approach... [More]

Note: Community members, I'll be adding Rational's Agile training courses so members can find the training they need.  I'd encourage you to share any public training you'll be doing whether it's formal or informal.  To do so just post the the community blog and add the tags ( ibmagile training course ), if your course will be web based add the tag ( web ) and finally if your course is free add the tag ( free ).  Your courses will show up on an RSS feed I'm building for the Events and Training area in the zone (now in Beta).   Course... [More]

GettingStarted with Agile in the Enterprise   If a team tries to adopt an Agile development approach unilaterally within the enterprise, you may make things somewhat better, but you will not realize the full benefits or potential and the team may end up very frustrated and dissatisfied with the outcome.  It is also likely that your agile adoption will not " stick" as people will return to their old behaviors over time.  Therefore,  moving to agile must be a combination of  a " top-down" and "... [More]

The Rational user experience team is looking for participants who play any role in an agile team for a 45-60 minute interview. No experience with Rational products is required.    Serious inquiries only, please. We will present an honorarium to selected interviewees. If interested, please email Corrie Kwan (chykwan -at- ca.ibm.com) with your name and contact information.

The DevOps movement is young and still emerging, especially among enterprises.  Like any new movement or trend, it has attracted myths and fallacies. Some of these myths may have originated in companies or projects that tried and failed to adopt DevOps. What’s true in one situation, however, may not necessarily be true in others. To cut through the hype and understand more about the DevOps approach, please get your complimentary copy of DevOps for Dummies where we explore some common myths about DevOps....and the facts to set things... [More]

Agile Product Owner Enablement - Live, Virtual Training Course Tuesday, July 31, 2012 Agile Product Owner Enablement This special training course is a one-day, live, virtual event. The course is designed for product managers, business team members, and others who are involved in the planning and execution of Agile projects. Course Overview Agile software development employs certain principles and practices that enable development teams to quickly build and deploy high quality software products. An example of one Agile practice is to establish... [More]

6/10/2014  by  Myriam Sanie Looking for directio Did you know that, according to  Fortune Magazine , $125.9 billion a year is spent on corporate training? Did you know that according to brain science, not all forms of learning are equal? Did you know that one of the greatest challenges in Agile is scaling to the enterprise level? Read on… (you may be surprised) devEssentials ™ : From Dream to Reality I have had the privilege of working for over a year with Blue Agility, a company specializing in large-scale... [More]

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The use of agile techniques for executing software projects continues to grow. However, acceptance isn't universal yet. There are still organizations that haven't switched from their more traditional, waterfall approach and are reluctant to do so. This post will look at the situation from the perspective of an external consultant experienced in agile (me) and my observations working with organizations that haven't made the jump to agile yet. There have been a number of surveys on barriers to agile adoption. One consistent theme is... [More]

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If you haven't seen this yet ... it's worth the 4 minutes.  As you can imagine, there are numerous stories behind this story. One of the goals of this community is to provide a space for people to have conversations around these type of stories.  Get to know the people behind the story.           

Read how IBM is adopting DevOps, and where this adoption is leading IBM to in this blog post written by Adrian Cho.