This session can run as a public conference talk or as a private in-house training session.

Agile has all these weird, expensive-looking practices: pair programming, test-driven development, regular planning meetings, moving the programmers and business people closer together, focusing people on a single project, multi-disciplinary teams. We can’t afford to go agile!

In this session, J. B. Rainsberger introduces agile practices by relating them to core business matters: compounding early earned value and reducing unnecessary costs. Learn why practice and learning are really profit centers. Maybe you can’t afford not to go agile!

This is a 90-minute talk aimed at people with business knowledge who want to understand how the practices of XP help benefit the bottom line.

You can find an excerpt from this presentation at XP Day Manhattan 2007 at YouTube.

• Understand how agile practices relate directly to core business concerns.
• Feel more comfortable with agile practices as an investment, rather than a sunk cost.
• Understand how to present agile practices in a compelling way to business people.
• See a more concrete, relevant justification for agile practices than “you’ll like it, and people will feel better”.

Combine this with Solve Just Enough Of Your Worst Problem for a complete one-day course.

Inquire about booking this session by emailing the address at the top of this page.