Predrag Jovanovic

Agile Prague 2025

The next year of Agile Prague Conference is going to be Sep 15-16, 2025.

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Wouldn’t it be great to go to a conference that included all of the topics that are most interesting to you? A conference that addressed your most pressing questions?
That’s what the Open Space sessions are for. It’s the part of the conference that you get to design.

Join the lunch Open Space and deepen your learning experience.

Predrag Jovanovic

Predrag Jovanovic is a simple guy that enjoys listening to Hard Rock music, playing guitar and following Martial Arts sports. He’s been doing software development since 2004 in variety of industries: education, government, eCommerce, telecommunications and finance. He first read the Agile Manifesto in 2006 and has been doing Agile in one way or another ever since. Predrag currently works for Barclays where he holds the Product Owner role for one of its projects.

http://cz.linkedin.com/in/predragjovanovic

Adopting Agile

The story starts at the end of 2010, at the time when I joined Barclays Capital as a Senior Software Engineer in the EFS Funds IT team. The team consisted of three distributed sub-teams based in New York, London and Prague. The methodology used for development was relying on some Agile practices (taken from Scrum, XP, etc) and tweaked to fit in the existing process.

It’s enough to say that we were far from Agile.

At the end of 2011, the whole team had an official training in Agile and Scrum. It served as and eye opener and we made significant changes in all aspects of our process.

The presentation will focus on the things we were doing wrong and the impediments we faced on our way to becoming truly Agile.

Some of the covered topics:

- Combining more roles in one person

- Struggles with Definition of Done

- Transitioning to Self-organizing team

- (Guess)Estimates and Velocity

- Distributed Teams and Scrum of Scrums