The story of how we leveraged a number of agile practices and lived the agile principles to turn a project on the edge of disaster into a resounding success, delivering 46% more functionality than planned.

1. From Amber to Green in Four Weeks
Antonio Terreno
Pat Kua
Agileday
23 November 2007, Bologna

2. Our Story…
http://flickr.com/photos/celesterc/403508547/

3. Resourcing constraints
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oki/164253922/

4. Delivery constraints
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnx62/474996485/

5. Practices
http://flickr.com/photos/15933373@N04/1735047949/in/set-72157602650886363/

6. Daily Stand-Ups
http://flickr.com/photos/re_verse/25262581/

7. User stories
http://flickr.com/photos/teamaskins/130003950/

8. Pair programming
http://flickr.com/photos/fortphoto/388825145/

9. Test Driven Development
http://flickr.com/photos/chuckbiscuito/161971512/

10. Continuous Integration
http://flickr.com/photos/bourget_82/291349047/

11. Spikes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogenfreund/469765151/

12. Heartbeat retrospectives
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/905385437/

13. Customer availability
http://flickr.com/photos/ezu/19680175/

14. Tuned our methodology and practices
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stitch/10332715/

15. Set design (trying several solutions)
http://flickr.com/photos/
pgoyette/

16. Removing technical and process waste
http://flickr.com/photos/
ispt17/

17. So we learnt that…
http://flickr.com/photos/foundphotoslj/466713478/

18. Team cohesion when changing
http://flickr.com/photos/mphs/540299247/

19. Commitment to success is infectious
http://flickr.com/photos/hughes_leglise/591122375/

20. Tiny Tasks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandiyan/1339056452/

21. Velocity variation
http://flickr.com/photos/kappuru/14050369/

22. Advices…
http://flickr.com/photos/ekai/457004988/

23. Be pragmatic when applying practices
http://flickr.com/photos/nothingpersonal/252531721/

24. New ideas need to be given a fair go
http://flickr.com/photos/gbaron/117091384/

25. Keep the cost of playing with the process low
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scr47chy/71541366/

26. Focus on removing the problems, not fixing people
http://flickr.com/photos/ippei-janine/683805285/

27. Q&A?
http://flickr.com/photos/tantek/22778226/