Reported-Benefits-of-Agile

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1. Manoj Vadakkan says:

   October 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm

   Mike,
   Would you mind making a pdf version available when you get a chance? I can’t seem to open this even though I have 2007 version.

   Thank you for making this available.
   Manoj
2. Mike Cohn says:

   October 30, 2009 at 4:56 pm

   Hi Manoj–Sorry about that. I’ve now added a PDF. I’ll also see if we can figure out why you can’t read the PowerPoint. You can get the PDF back on the Resources page.
3. Barak Yagour says:

   November 1, 2009 at 5:40 am

   Hi Mike,
   great presentation.
   My only concern (and this seems to happen too often in our side of the Agile fence) is that the presentation could be interpreted as one sided.
   Since no downsides mentioned at all, this makes the presentation seem biased and therefore less viable to people that are not fully buying into the concepts.

   Barak
4. Manoj Vadakkan says:

   November 1, 2009 at 9:04 am

   Thank you for making the pdf. Very useful information.

   Manoj
5. Mike Cohn says:

   November 1, 2009 at 11:22 am

   Hi Barak–
   This is absolutely a risk. I didn’t anticipate that someone would use these slides as the only thing to talk about in a presentation. I assumed they would be coupled with something like this redistributable presentation on Scrum or with a discussion of “how we’ll starting adopting agile in our company.” Hopefully those other parts of a more complete presentation present the balance to these slides, which are just a list of reported benefits.

   In the Succeeding with Agile book, these benefits come at the end of chapter 1, which is all about why transitioning to agile is hard. So, that chapter has a very deliberate balance. My intent in the chapter was to say how hard adopting agile is. Then, right when a reader is thinking, “Yikes, this is going to be hard, maybe we shouldn’t it,” I switch to present the benefits. For me the long-term benefits outweigh the pain of the transition.
6. Mike Cohn says:

   November 1, 2009 at 11:22 am

   Thanks, Manoj. I’m glad you find it useful.
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   November 22, 2009 at 8:14 pm

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8. Claude Aubry says:

   November 25, 2009 at 10:37 am

   Hi Mike,

   I like your redistribuable presentations, so I also translated this one in French. I added the results of the national survey of the French Scrum User Group (http://www.frenchsug.org/download/attachments/591296/National_survey_FrenchSUG_ENGL_en.pdf?version=2) and dispatched them in the different covered areas. Some results of this survey are included on my future book.

   I published the resulting Powerpoint presentation as attached file of this post: http://www.aubryconseil.com/post/Les-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9fices-du-d%C3%A9veloppement-agile (in French)

   Claude
9. Mike Cohn says:

   November 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm

   Hi Claude–
   Thanks for providing these additional resources. (As well for previously translating the Introduction to Scrum presentation into French.)
10. Jose Papo says:

    February 9, 2010 at 11:00 am

    Hi Mr. Cohn,

    I translated your presentation to Portuguese.

    I published the presentation on SlideShare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jpapo/beneficios-reportados-de-processos-geis

    Everyone can read and also download the translated version.

    Thank you very much for the excellent and always useful books, articles and presentations!

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