Presentation: Tweet"Deliver early and often - there is no excuse!"

In terms of delivering early and often the situation for many large and complex projects is troubling at best. While each iteration might end up with a release to a test environment the software does not reach production. In some cases it might take more than a year before the system finally hits real users using the software to solve real problems. Excuses are many: Contract, Legal, Hardware or simply the idea that an enormous amount of functionality is needed to establish a minimal marketable feature set. But do we truly understand the consequences of this and the economic aspect of having to wait more than 12 month before our system generates actual business value and real feedback? Have we made it clear to our customers and do we really believe in it ourselves? Are our excuses valid or a result of fear, distrust, sub optimization or hidden agendas?

While early and often delivery is almost taken for granted in Agile software development these days. Reality is that many teams are still a long way from releasing code to production! In this session Jesper will take a look at the reasons behind late Agile delivery and share some real life experiences dealing with both successful and unsuccessful attempts to try to change the situation. We will take a look at some of the techniques that proved helpful in changing the situation and what did not work, and dive into some of the theory behind Agile development to help us better understand the true consequences of ignoring these basic principles.