 Agile practices were on display for our April Agile Panel on Agility. Many thanks to Todd Little and panelists Prakash Roopani, Ahsan Rahi, Gene Lege and Steve Webb for an interesting evening exploring agility in action. First gathering "customer" priorities using Dot Voting in the pre-meeting networking session, Todd and the panel introduced Planning Poker to estimate the work ahead of them. Did we not get to your question? Not to worry, look for all the questions in the new discussion forum on http://www.apln.org/ where people from around the country will have the opportunity to speak to them. Methodology  Questions for the panel were solicited from the APLN Houston membership starting at the March meeting and continuing virtually. Proposed topics were posted during the networking session prior to the panel discussion. Participants used Dot Voting to indicate their interest in the proposed topics. The total vote count for each topic was used to prioritize the questions into three groups: high, medium and low.
As with an agile project, the next step was for the panel to assign points to each proposed topic. Planning Poker was used for this process. The top half of the list was estimated. The top question was moved to In Work and the subsequent high priority item to the backlog. The first two items were moved to done during the discussion, with the third in backlog. See Barbara Brown's complete write-up  Questions High Priority | Total Votes | Points | | Estimating | 20 | 20 | | Selling Agile to the business | 17 | 10 | | Selling Agile to the team | 14 | 20 | | What are the right metrics to track | 13 | 13 | | Integrating Architecture | 13 | 100 |
Medium Priority | Total Votes | Points | | Agile and fixed bids | 11 | 8 | | Failure on agile projects - what are the signs | 11 | 10 | | Integrating team members new to Scrum | 7 | | | Managing multiple Scrum teams | 6 | | | Technical design for large projects | 5 | | | Story boards | 4 | |
Low Priority | Total Votes | Points | | Tools to manage the backlog | 2 | | | Distributed teams | 2 | | | Agile contracts | 2 | | | Scheduling | 1 | | | Planning poker | 1 | |
Panelists: - Prakash Roopani - Development Manager at Petris Technology, Inc.
- Steve Webb - Account Manager at Computer Modeling Group
- Gene Lege - Senior Program Manager at Landmark Graphics
- Ahsan Rahi - Project Management and Quality Advisor
 Todd Little is a Sr. Development Manager for Landmark Graphics Corp. For over 25 years he has been involved in almost all aspects of software development with a focus on commercial software applications for oil and gas exploration and production. He is on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance. In 2003, he co-founded the Agile Development Conference, and served as the Program Director for ADC2004 and for Agile2005 and Agile2006. He is a co-author of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile Project Leadership and a founding member and past President of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN).
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