--- title: "September at Agile Israel - Why Agile, and lessons learned from implementing SCRUM" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/7/september-at-agile-israel-why-agile-and-lessons-learned-from.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/7/september-at-agile-israel-why-agile-and-lessons-learned-from.html" published: "2005-09-07T16:32:00" updated: "2005-09-07T16:32:00" tags: ["Agile Related", "Community"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "The next meeting will be held on the 26th of this Month, Monday. For session and speaker details go the the event page . The first part of this month's meeting will be dedicated to a session we never got to finish at…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # September at Agile Israel - Why Agile, and lessons learned from implementing SCRUM By Roy Osherove September 7, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community) **Historical article** · Originally published September 7, 2005; technical details may be outdated. **The next meeting will be held on the 26th of this Month, Monday.** For session and speaker details [go the the event page](http://www.agileisrael.com/Default.aspx?tabid=111). The first part of this month's meeting will be dedicated to a session we never got to finish at the first meeting of Agile Israel - “Why Agile” - an introduction to the “Why” behind the various Agile Methodologies and the differences between Agile methodologies and Engineering methodologies today. The talk will be given by [Roy Osherove](http://www.iserializable.com/). The second part of the meeting will be held by Joe Weisblatt, a technical leader on a large software project, encompassing almost 150 developers on 3 continents in 4 time zones. He spearheaded the initiative to move this project to an Agile methodology. Joe will describe his efforts and the results, including many of the arguments for and against within the project, challenges to adoption of Agile methodology, and the results of his effort - both positive and negative. **Agenda:** 17:30 - 18:00 - **Arrival & Registration** 18:00 - 19:15 - **Why Agile - Roy Osherove** **break** 19:30 - 20:45 - **Lessons from implementing a large Agile Project - Joe Weisblatt** It's important for us to know if you'll be attending the meeting, so that we can prepare enough food and seats. If you plan to attend, send an email to **\[email removed\]** specifying your name and that you will attend. If you're not already a member of the Agile Israel group and you live in Israel, I encourage you to register at the site for free, to gain access to downloadable presentation slides and audio from the meetings(most audio is in Hebrew) ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Sep 14, 2005 ### [What 2 questions would you ask Kent Beck?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/14/what-2-questions-would-you-ask-kent-beck.html) - Sep 14, 2005 ### [New blog from NUnit primary maintainer - Charlie Poole](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/14/new-blog-from-nunit-primary-maintainer-charlie-poole.html) - Aug 31, 2005 ### [Agile conference coming to Israel - Your input is required.](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/31/agile-conference-coming-to-israel-your-input-is-required.html) - Aug 30, 2005 ### [Interesting Agile related blog - Cory Foy](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/8/30/interesting-agile-related-blog-cory-foy.html) --- ## 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. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [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. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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