Agile movement at KAZ Software

After we attended a three days workshop about Agile and another three days workshop about Refactoring code smells, design principal and design pattern, the whole motivation about software development changed in my mind. Thanks to Naresh Jain and BD Jobs to offer such a good workshop.

After the workshop we discuss about that in our team meeting, launch table and whenever we get some time. We looked at our code and feel the code smells. The workshop motivated us so much that we felt that every one of us should join. We offered Naresh Jain to do similar workshop for our company. But it was too late. He did not have visa and lots of other problems.

So we decided to organize similar workshop inside our company by ourself. But it was not so easy.
First Topu Bhai (Project Manager) planned to facilitate the prototype of the agile project management workshop. I'm using the term prototype because we did exactly same exercise, presentation and discussion. Topu Bhai did a very successful workshop on agile project management. If I mark Naresh Jain's workshop 100 then I will not mark Topu Bhai's workshop less then 80. His workshop changes a lot on our discussion topic. Everyone is discussing about agile and agile.

Then it was my turn to prototype the second workshop. I did lot of study one Naresh Jain's workshop and practice a lot with his material. As Naresh Jain explained a new way of writing code, new way of thinking about programming I did the same in Re-factoring Code Smell and Design Pattern & Design Principal workshop to others. We feel that refactoring is a new skill. Everyone doesn't have that even if he is a very good programmer. It needs a lot of practice.

Both the workshop made a huge change on us. Our management decided to introduce agile in our process. We formed a team to find a way to do that. Though we started in a limited scope but it was a good start.

I thanked our Knowledge Team and Tech Support to help us to organize such a wonderful workshop. Our tech team managed to setup 10 pair station in our meeting room with a projector. Finally I thanked our administration to facilitate everything we demanded.