AgileNCR 2010 conference was held in Gurgaon on 17th & 18th July 2010. This largest community driven conference was the Fourth edition of Agile NCR and was organized in collaboration with ASCI. This time the event was based on four major themes : 'Agile for newbies', ' Agile Adoption Challenges', 'Workshops and Software Craftsmanship', and ' Post Agile'.

2. Based on Agile NCR 2009 Inputs

3. Pair programming is waste of resources??? OR How to Buy Time for Pair Programming??? OR How about Pair Programming in Fixed Bid Projects? http://www.xebia.com

4. A Day of A Solo Programmer http://www.xebia.com

5. A Still from Pair Programming http://www.xebia.com

6. Pair Programming != Pair of Typing http://www.xebia.com

7. AllProgrammingTasksAreEasyOnceYouveSolvedThem http://www.xebia.com

8. Where are the Metrics of those Old Days?

9. Why do I need metrics?

10. It’s the Age of Open Kitchen

11. Transparent and Always Visible Maven Dashboard

12. No Place for Heroism (Exponential vs Gradual Growth)

13. Team of Individual Heroes

14. Sprint Success Matters Than Individual Heroism

15. Risky to Start with Big and Complex Projects

16. Large Projects are Inherently Difficult to Execute

17. Other Side: Lack of Team Communication forum

18. Other Side: Delayed Integration

19. Agile: Small Teams, Less Communication Loss

20. Agile: Continuous Integration

21. How to Plan for Difficult to Estimate Tasks?

22. Break the User Stories

23. Pre-planning and Planning-2 Do Help!!!

24. Create a Prototype or POC First

25. How to Handle Unplanned Work?

26. A Bucket of Sprint Time/Velocity Allocated to Unplanned Work

27. A Lot of Unplanned Work: Use Kanban

28. Agile vs Fixed Bid Projects?

29. Irony of Fixed Bid - Fixed Scope - Resulting Change Requests

30. ….Resulting Longer and Non-prioritized List of Requirements

31. Resultant : Mess  Compromise on Quality

32. Questions??? http://www.xebia.com

33. Thank You! http://www.xebia.com