At the University of CEMA I was received by Anabela Amoresano, in charge of the event coordination. A few minutes later there were several volunteers from the PMI Buenos Aires Chapter arriving.

While waiting for the start, I had a very interesting discussion and exchange about the application of agile methodologies with Abel Bernal. I’ll probably cover the topic in a future post, it’s worth.

At 6:30PM Jose Esterkin, President of the PMI Buenos Aires Chapter, began the meeting by commenting on developments of the chapter, volunteer opportunities and PMI Tour Buenos Aires. Immediately after, Cecilia Boggi made the introduction of the talk and there we went … Below is the presentation I used:

Special thanks to Cecilia and Jose for the space to develop this particular issue.

Greetings!

So, what’s all this “agile thing”about?

This is a pretty acceptable question for which we need an answer. I’m posting this information due to the fact that we can’t assume everyone reaching up to this blog would know what agile is.

On the other hand, there’s already a lot of information out there describing what agile is and going deeper in details on their most known flavors; so, rather than writing another blog post about what Agile is, I’ll just point you to the needed materials/books that will explain it.

In case your mother tonge were Spanish, I’d suggest you to visit the Spanish version of this article where you’ll find a more deeper introduction to agile.

OK, here we go, please check out the following material in order to understand what Agile is:

• The first thing to know about is the bean that made this Agile thoughts grow: The Agile Manifesto.
• After that, you’d probably need to read the principles derived from the above manifesto: The Agile Principles.
• Once the basis are known, here’s a beginner level introduction to Agile: A Brief Introduction to Agile.
• Focusing only on SCRUM at this point, I’d recommend you to take a look at Ken Schwaber’s book named Agile Project Management with SCRUM.
• Finally, you MUST read Henrik Kniberg’s e-book (free online version) named SCRUM and XP from the Trenches which is a detailed description on how the author implements SCRUM and XP in different development teams.