Welcoming Remarks by Calen Legaspi at the Agile Executive Forum hosted by Orange and Bronze Software Labs October 26, 2011 About O&B: Orange & Bronze is an offshore product and software development firm in the Philippines, is one of the first companies in Asia to use and advocate Agile Software Development, and has been using it since our inception in 2005, back when Agile was still an emerging movement. O&B offers training courses for Agile with Scrum and XP - these classes were developed and are taught by some of the Philippines' well-known and respected Agile / Scrum coaches and practitioners, and uses the format trusted by some of the best companies in the Philippines.

6. Result of first study - 1994 data

7. Reasons for Challenged/Canceled, 1994 Lack of User Involvement Incomplete Requirements Changing Requirements Lack of Competence with Technology Used Unrealistic Expectations Lack of Executive Support Unrealistic Time Frames Lack of Resources Lack of Planning Project No Longer Needed

9. Executive Management Support

10. Clear Statement of Requirements

11. Proper Planning

13. Competent Staff

14. Ownership

15. Clear Vision & Objectives

16. Hard-Working, Focused Staff

17. Results, all years 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 Successful 16% 27% 26% 28% 34% 29% 35% 32% Challenged 53% 33% 46% 49% 51% 53% 46% 44% Canceled 31% 40% 28% 23% 15% 18% 19% 24%

19. Executive management support

20. Clear business objectives

21. Optimizing scope

23. Financial management

24. Skilled resources

25. Formal methodology

26. Standard tools and methodology

27. Agile Adoption, Forrester 2009

28. So what is Agile?

29. So what is Agile? Depends on who you talk to.

30. 2001 – The Agile Manifesto 90's: different schools of thought >'01: different schools of thought

31. Scrum Crystal Lean Software Development Kanban Extreme Programming Schools of Thought dX Agile Unified Process Feature Driven Development Dynamic Systems Development

33. Engineering

34. Business Analysis

35. Quality Assurance

36. User Experience

38. No one methodology covers all situations

39. Certification International Consortium of Agile

42. Welcome to the Agile Executive Forum!

44. Consulting, outsourcing, and offshore product development services using Open Source technologies, with a specialization in the Spring and Grails frameworks

45. Enterprise solutions with Google enterprise products and business intelligence solutions with the Pentaho BI Suite

46. Offers Java, Agile and Android training courses www.orangeandbronze.com