Michael Hill
GeePaw Hill has been a professional programmer for thirty-one years. For the last eleven, he has focused his efforts as a trainer, coach, and team lead on XP software projects and transitions. Mike is a well-known leader in the Agile community and is a regular speaker at related industry events. His chief interest over the last few years has been on the perils and rewards of coaching agile development teams.
Track abstract - Room K1 - Software Development Leaders
Leadership In Deep Legacy
The only thing trickier than programming in a deep legacy environment is leading in one.
In this session, Mike GeePaw Hill presents how to lead your team as they dig out from the weight of years and years of just plain awful. You'll learn how to help your team:
· choose the right legacy targets;
· manage the time-boxing so the day-job gets done;
· swarm a large class;
· generate interest, support, and yes, even excitement.
Along the way, you'll see GeePaw's Pillars of Coaching in action, as we take real-life legacy situations and turn them into long-term winners. The GeePawHill style, funny and pointed and spot-on accurate, should make this session a winner.
Track abstract - Room K2 - Software Development Teams
Pillars Of A Coaching Practice
How do agile coaches know what to do?
In this session, Mike GeePaw Hill presents and describes his Pillars
Of Coaching, the basic sources of all successful coaching efforts:
Situating, Modeling, Releasing, Sorting, and Inviting. These are the
wellsprings from which an experienced coach draws ideas, insights, and
inspiration. The GeePawHill style, funny and pointed and spot-on
accurate, should make this session informative and pleasurable.
Track abstract - Conversation Corner
Can a few agile enthusiasts change an organization?
More and more organizations are adopting agile methods, for individual projects and even whole departments. This change is being facilitated by enthusiastic coaches and project managers and developers, and many people are going on training courses and gaining agile certifications. All this activity is certainly leading to improvements, but will it last? In this fishbowl discussion we’ll be talking about how to sustain desirable organizational change. Once the early adopters and initiators have gone on parental leave or got a new job, will their legacy be more than a pile of (mostly broken) unit tests and a habit of holding meetings standing up?
The discussion is open to everyone, but to get things going, some of the conference speakers have kindly agreed to sit in the fishbowl at the start and share their views on the matter.
