Presentations

[ Agile Made Us Better But We Signed Up For Great]
ThoughtWorks Client Principal Ross Pettit focuses on the difference between following Agile practices and being an agile organisation. He introduces practical tools and concepts that can make immediate impact on your team and make IT a GREAT delivery partner. Follow along using this PDF slide deck: Agile Made Us Better... (PDF). [ view now ]

[ Keyboard Tips for Programmers ]
ThoughtWorks "Meme Wrangler" Neal Ford discusses practical keyboard tips for accelerating your development as a programmer. These tips and more are found in Neal's book, The Productive Programmer. In the book Neal discusses how developers can be more productive. [ more ]

[ Engaging Agile Teams QTB - download presentation ]
This briefing explores the expectation gap between management, procurement and legal teams when dealing with Agile software development. It also provides a brief overview of Agile practices to establish common understanding for all stakeholders.

[ Lean Thinking for IT Professionals - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Lean consultant, Richard Durnall, presents the processes, tools and philosophies applied by Toyota Corporation to become one of the most successful companies in the history of the world and it's 7th largest. Using case studies from ThoughtWorks Australia clients he explores how Lean principles apply in IT.

[ Distributed Agile - an Oxymoron? - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultants, Pat Kua and Liz Keogh present on the challenges, rewards and frustrations of real distributed Agile projects to a Butler group audience.

[ Agile Primer - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultant and coach, Pat Kua, walks through software engineering practices, the Agile manifesto and what it all means, a practical guide to Agile principles, practices and realities.

[ Quality without Heroics - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Global Test Practice Lead, Kristan Vingrys and Senior Consultant, Jason Yip discuss techniques to improve quality in your organisation.