Derby City Agile Meetup - What We’ve Learned So Far with Chet Hendrickson

Many mistakenly believe that Agile started with the Manifesto. That a few guys got together and made up a vision for a better world. This is not the case. While it is true that they were men, they were not projecting into the future, but instead were reflecting on the past. The challenge of the Manifesto is for us to do the same. To look at what we have done and seen, using that experience to help others catch up and move beyond. In this talk, Chet will discuss the things we have done and seen over the past few years and badly project where we might be heading in the future. Speaker: The amazing, Chet Hendrickson First Signatory of the Agile Manifesto & One of the Founding Father’s of Agile and XP Chet Hendrickson has been involved with Agile Software Development since 1996, when as a member of Chrysler’s C3 project he helped develop Extreme Programming. In 2000, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet wrote Extreme Programming Installed. It detailed XP’s core practices, how to do them, and how they work together to help teams be successful. Chet is the first signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Since 2002, Chet has been an independent consultant, coach, and trainer. In 2009, he was asked by the Scrum Alliance to help develop the Certified Scrum Developer program. Chet and Ron Jeffries taught the first CSD course and continue to offer them in the United States and Europe. He has been a Certified Scrum Trainer since 2009 (retired in 2022) Ron and Chet were the curators of the Scrum Alliance’s Agile Atlas website and in that function created the Alliance’s official Scrum description, Core Scrum. Chet and Ron Jeffries often work together and are popular conference speakers, bringing an interesting mix of humor and deep knowledge, and the odd cat picture. The are a fixture at the Agile Alliance’s annual conference, Agile 20xx, as presenters in the alwarts track.