The document summarizes a presentation titled "The Three Amigos: Collaborating to Build the Right Thing Right" given by George Dinwiddie at Agile India 2012. The presentation discusses how business people, programmers, and testers can work together collaboratively as "The Three Amigos" to produce the best possible product outcomes. It encourages conversations between the roles to help the business build the right system and the programmers build a system that works right, with the testers playing a key role.

1. The Three Amigos
– Collaborating to
Build the Right Thing Right
George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie@idiacomputing.com
IDIA Computing, LLC
http:idiacomputing.com
http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Agile India 2012
Bengalaru, India

2. Tom sent Sally to the store to
get blueberry scones for
lunch, but all they had were
walnut muffins, which Tom
doesn’t like, so she served
plain bread, instead.
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3. drawings from http://pictofigo.com
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4. Conversations
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5. The Three Amigos
● Business people
● Programmers
drawing from http://pictofigo.com
● Testers
working together to
produce the best
possible outcome.
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6. Helping the business
make the right system
drawing from http://pictofigo.com
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7. Make Balloons Like This:
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8. The Testers' Place
in Software Development
Are testers here
on your project?
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9. Helping the programmer
make a system that works right
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10. Coaching & Mentoring Stage
● The Survival Guide for New Agile Coaches - Dave Rooney
● Slowing down to Speed up: Encouraging sustainable pace
in teams - Rahul Sawhney
● The coaching conversation as driver towards great results
- Bent Myllerup
● Agile Devil's Workshop - Madhur Kathuria
● Coaching Creatives: New Ideas from Dead Artists -
Nathaniel Cadwell
● The end of the beginning: An Agile Coach's journey at the
BBC - Abbas Mavani
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