This session walks through the purpose, benefits, methods and audience for the Retrospectives. It also emphasizes the importance of being a team and need of continuous improvement as a Team.
It tries to provide insights into some of the different methods to make retrospective interesting.

This session is based on my direct experience and is highly inspired by the book - Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

Presentation and exercise on creating stories from a business requirement.

Consider, feasibility of development, clarity of requirement & openness while creating stories.

Kill Agility by focusing on…

Current sprint AND IGNORE Long Term Product Vision

Productivity metrics like Velocity, Burndown charts AND IGNORE Quality - Working Software

Individuals AND IGNORE Team

Following Agile Processes AND IGNORE Being Agile

Independent or Management dependent Teams AND IGNORE Self Organized Teams

The focus of this session is demo of Test Driven development using SQL.

SQL is selected as a medium to demo as it is understood by many in the developer community.

Not many in Database development use TDD, this talk provides an easy method to start doing it.

Kill Agility by focusing on…

Current sprint AND IGNORE Long Term Product Vision

Productivity metrics like Velocity, Burndown charts AND IGNORE Quality - Working Software

Individuals AND IGNORE Team

Following Agile Processes AND IGNORE Being Agile

Independent or Management dependent Teams AND IGNORE Self Organized Teams