Title:
The Process Increments Method: Case studies from Egypt
Abstract:
Agile adoption is a transformational project which involves paradigm shift and team/organization restructuring towards agile and lean processes. To manage transition risks, we have crafted the Process Increments method, an iterative and incremental approach for software process improvement. Process Increments builds upon agile values and principles, and reuses some well-known agile practices and techniques.
Process Increments approach has been first introduced in 2010. Since then, this approach has been successfully applied to manage different process improvement initiatives throughout many organizations with different contexts, challenges and scope. In this session, I will demonstrate some of the agile adoption challenges we faced and how they were alleviated using Process Increments, giving examples and case studies from successful transformations done in Egypt during the last three years.
Bio:
Amr is an agile coach, trainer and practitioner whose life vision is to spread lean thinking in software organizations in Egypt and the Middle East. Amr is a Senior Consultant at the Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC) of Egypt. His primary role is helping teams and organizations do successful Agile transformation and develop software at their maximum potential. Amr is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), a Sun-Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA), and Six Sigma black belt certified for IT and Software Engineering .
Amr is the founder of the Egypt Lean & Agile Network and is the co-author of the ‘Process Increments’ method, an agile method for software process improvement. Amr is one of the drivers of Egypt’s GoAgile program, an agile adoption initiative sponsored by the Egyptian government for expanding agile practices and lean thinking in software houses in Egypt. Amr has trained 400+ practitioners, coached many teams from a wide range of private and public organizations in Egypt and the Middle East.
Currently, Amr is researching different topics, some of which are how legacy applications evolve and how to harness this evolution towards a better maintainability; and how to appraise agile teams openly and fairly. Amr’s blog: http://amr-noaman.blogspot.com/ and could be reached at anoaman@itida.gov.eg or amr.noaman@gmail.com.
Agile Africa 2013 