Agile-Carolinas: Bill Krebs on XP:EF April 25, 2007

Bill Krebs will talk with us on April 25.

Topic: "Did we do it? Measure Agile with XP:EF to improve and share".

XP:EF stands for "Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework". Laurie Williams, Dr Anton, and Lucas Layman and I came up with it a few years back for several purposes:
1) Put some objective data behind the hype of agile
2) Use it as a lightweight tool for mid course correction to help teams improve the quality of their product.

In the process our team moved from 57% of an ideal XP team to 72% of an ideal XP team and improved our quality by a factor of two and productivity by roughly 30%.

Bio: Bill has worked in software development and performance for 24 years. He's been Agile since 2001. He attended the Robert O. Anderson school of management, and worked for the City of Albuquerque, IBM Software group, IBM Nordic labs, IBM Microelectronics, and Rational. He's has various patents, and has published ten papers. His focus is process improvement, building communities, Agile and Lean principles and techniques, and lightweight metrics. Bill currently works for IBM corporate deploying best practices across the company.

Official Website: http://agile-carolinas.pbwiki.com