--- title: "One more DevDays Talk: Introduction to Agile Methodologies and Concepts" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/23/one-more-devdays-talk-introduction-to-agile-methodologies-an.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/23/one-more-devdays-talk-introduction-to-agile-methodologies-an.html" published: "2006-02-23T21:57:00" updated: "2006-02-23T21:57:00" tags: ["Agile Related", "Team Agile News"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Looks like I'll be doing a third talk at the upcoming DevDays in Belgium . I'm taking the place of Rafal Lukawiecki, who couldn't make it in time, and will be talking about a topic near and dear to my heart. You guessed…" 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/" --- # One more DevDays Talk: Introduction to Agile Methodologies and Concepts By Roy Osherove February 23, 2006 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news) **Historical article** · Originally published February 23, 2006; technical details may be outdated. Looks like I'll be doing a third talk at the upcoming [DevDays in Belgium](http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/devitprodays/). I'm taking the place of Rafal Lukawiecki, who couldn't make it in time, and will be talking about a topic near and dear to my heart. You guessed it. **Agile**. **Introduction to Agile Methodologies and Concepts** March 8, 2006 - 14:30 - 15:45 Ever knew on your first day on the project that you’re going to miss the deadline? Ever been “surprised” that the customer changed their mind? Ever had long nights trying to fit your latest changes into code that just keeps on breaking? You’re not alone. Wondering where you should start if you want to go Agile? This talk is for you. We’ll take a look at the traditional “Engineering” based methodologies such as the waterfall model, how they came to be, why most projects today fail, and what the differences are between Engineering methodologies and “Agile” methodologies. We’ll explore what “Embrace Change” really means in the context of Agile development and what “People-Oriented” “Adaptive” development mean in that context. We’ll see how methodologies such as XP, Scrum, MSF-Agile and others fit into the context of Agile development and talk about the ways in which one can start adopting agile in their organization. Finally, we’ll talk about some of the most basic steps any organization can take in the road to becoming more and more Agile.  ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Mar 13, 2006 ### [Code from DevDays Belgium available: Design for Testability & Smart Client Offline Caching and Synchronization](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/13/code-from-devdays-belgium-available-design-for-testability-a.html) - Mar 10, 2006 ### [March at Agile Israel - Great presentations & The group's first birthday](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/3/10/march-at-agile-israel-great-presentations-amp-the-groups-fir.html) - Feb 6, 2006 ### [February at Agile Israel: The FIT Testing Framework](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/6/february-at-agile-israel-the-fit-testing-framework.html) - Feb 2, 2006 ### [HanselMinutes on CI tools, and a free EBook on Agile Skills](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/2/2/hanselminutes-on-ci-tools-and-a-free-ebook-on-agile-skills.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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