„Agile in Lithuania – Innovation or a Well Going Train? What is Waiting For the Ones That are Late For It?“ Video Vaidas Adomauskas

„Before and After Agile in Eyes of Company Director“ Video Augustas Alešiūnas

„Scaling Agility Across the Enterprise“ Video David Weir And Graham Fisher

„Introduction into Extreme Programming“ Video Audrys Kažukauskas

Product Manager and Scrum Coach at Adform; President of Agile Lithuania. Vaidas was a part of the Scrum implementation team in his current workplace. Now he is responsible for one of the company key product as well as every day review and improvements of Scrum in Adform. Before returning to Lithuania he helped to implement Scrum in Lavasoft (Sweden).
Vaidas is sharing his experiences in http://scrum.agile.lt blog, gives presentations in international and Lithuanian IT/Agile conferences, as well as consults/runs trainings for companies implementing Agile methods. He is initiator and now president of Agile Lithuania community, which organizes Agile and Scrum user group meetings, and Agile conferences in Lithuania. He is Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and member of Lithuanian Project Management Association (LPVA). Vaidas is teaching “Agile Project Management with Scrum” course at Vilnius University.

Agile in Lithuania – Innovation or a Well Going Train? What is Waiting For the Ones That are Late For It?

When we introduced Scrum (one of Agile project management methods) in Lavasoft (Sweden), it allowed to put order to chaotic development process. The released version was with much better quality and more features compared to previous ones. When I was describing this project management method to my cousin, IT project manager in Lithuania, he was smiling. “It will never work in Lithuania, with our people” – was his conclusion. I never believed this. I came back to Lithuania. In 2009 we implemented and we are successfully using Scrum in Adform since. It was clear evidence – employees in Lithuania do not differ from the rest of the world. Project management methods that work abroad are well applicable in Lithuania as well.
In 2010, while organizing first Agile conference in Lithuania – Agile Tour Vilnius 2010 (http://2010.agileturas.lt) – we had trouble finding Lithuanian speakers who would have Agile experience in Lithuania. Nevertheless, we found few, and this conference became the birth for community of Agile practitioners. This community actively promotes Agile in Lithuania by sharing their experiences in different events.
So what is Agile project management? Why some project managers, managers or CEOs still think that these methods are not applicable in Lithuania, in their projects, companies? Which companies are using Agile and what benefits they claim to get (or not to get)? In this presentation I will share my experience implementing and using Scrum. I will also share my insights how, where, and why Agile project management methods are spreading in Lithuania.

CEO at ART21. “ART21” is the only IT company in Lithuania which develops software exclusively for the agricultural sector. Company director, board member and a major shareholder Augustas Alešiūnas will share his experience on the company management. You will hear about key differences between how the company operated before and after discovering Agile.

Before and After Agile in Eyes of Company Director

The real benefits of Agile. Looking at the company horizontally, not only limiting yourself to the manufacturing processes, department organization, but touching the marketing, financial flows and the market attractiveness.

Director of Engineering at Technopark. Audrys Kazukauskas has been actively practicing Extreme Programming (XP) as a developer and a team lead, from going fully "by the book" to customizing the process to fit the given environment, within small and large scale software projects. Audrys is currently running a constantly expanding development team which works for KAYAK.com, one of the largest travel sites in the world.

Introduction into Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming might not be a silver bullet, but in software development it is almost that. Managers get all the bells and whistles you would expect from an agile process, whilst developers are equipped with a set of principles and practices, which almost inevitably improve the codebase and enable frequent delivery of quality software. In fact, many teams, which use other software development processes (Scrum, for instance) eventually end up adopting quite a few XP practices. I'll give you an introduction into XP, share my experiences and provide references to XP material for learning more about XP.