Agility (not "Agile") is essential in modern software development. We need to build products that people actually want with minimal effort, and we need to easily adapt to customer needs as they arise. By building around the user's story (not ours) we guarantee that our products actually do what our customers want. We create high-quality software that easily accommodates change and we get it into our customers hands sooner.

In this practical workshop you'll learn how to create user-focused products with agility. You'll learn what stories are, how to capture them, how to plan around them, and most importantly, how to turn them into code. This workshop is about the practical steps of creating software, not about meetings and ceremonies and the other ineffective nonsense that that words like "Agile" bring to mind.

You'll learn how to:

* build a culture of agility.
* create organizational structures that support agility.
* manage and plan around story-based development
* estimate (or not).

You'll learn

* what User's Stories actually are.
* how to define the problem we're solving.
* how to capture (not "write") stories.
* how to refine and size stories into bite-sized chunks.
* how to build a change-friendly domain-focused architecture.
* how to write the code with agility, translating directly from the stories.

We will not waste time talking about about ineffective canned processes like Scrum, which are the antithesis of agility.

You will come away with a good understanding of how to build great software products as effectively as possible.