4/15/13

Chas Mastin

Talk: Agile for the Real

Enough Theory: How do you put Agile and Scrum into practice on the development side using github issues, physical kanban boards, pull requests, +1ing and integrated Quality Control?  Chas Mastin, Director of Sprint Teams at Control Group will share some pitfalls and promises of Agile from sales and stakeholder buy-in, all the way through product delivery.  Along the way Chas will share three tales of Agile woe: The Agile Tool Dependency, The Integration Paradox, and the Neverending Project.

Chas Mastin is a technologist who is currently the Director of Sprint Teams at Control Group.  He has practiced Agile and Scrum at three companies, two of which he was CTO, over the last 7 years.  Chas wrote his first program over 30 years ago and has spent the last 15 years building products, from education to gaming to marketing, online.