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title: "June at Agile Israel: Implementing change in an organization + A Bug's Life"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/june-at-agile-israel-implementing-change-in-an-organization.md"
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published: "2005-06-20T13:24:00"
updated: "2005-06-20T13:24:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Community"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The next Agile Israel meeting - More details here Please send an email to [email removed] if you plan to attend so that we know how many people to plan for. Thanks in advance. If you'd like to receive notification…"
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# June at Agile Israel: Implementing change in an organization + A Bug's Life

By Roy Osherove June 20, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 20, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

**The next Agile Israel meeting - [More details here](http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=60)**

- **Please send an email** to \[email removed\] if you plan to attend so that we know how many people to plan for. Thanks in advance.
- If you'd like to receive notification of future meetings and when downloads become available – register at [www.agileisrael.com](http://www.agileisrael.com/) .

**Meeting date:** Monday, June 27, 2005

17:30 - 18:00 : Gathering

**Part 1**

**18:00-19:15** \- Eli Lopian, Amdocs:  **Helping cause change in an large organization**

Eli Lopian, Group Co-Manager, Will discuss the problems and strategies in implementing change in your workspace, this will help in performing the cultural change needed to move to a more agile development process. Eli will discuss the motivation to change, resistance and how to overcome it, the 4P's strategy and other tactics that can help. He will also give his personal experience from implementing TDD in amdocs - a large software organization in Israel.

**Part II**

**19:30 - 20:45** \- Roy Sharon, K2K software: **A Bug's Life**

[K2K](http://www.k2k.com/) is among the only software companies in Israel that had successfully undergone ISO9000 certification on its use of Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development. Roy Sharon will present insights from this process, with a focus on one specific aspect of Test Driven Development: preventing Bugs that Fight Back.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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