Willem van den Ende, Independent Consultant

Willem van den Ende is a Dutch eXtreme Programming pioneer. Since 1999 he guides organisations in the introduction of agile software development as an all-hands person: coach, developer, and facilitator. Always active in the local and international community, he currently serves as board member of the Agile Alliance, host of systemsthinking.net and the European Agile Open conferences. Willem is an appreciated workshop facilitator at practitioners' conferences like XP(Day), Software Practice Advancement, and Agile200*.

Willem's sharp vision, broad knowledge, and twenty years of experience as programmer and coach enable him to adopt a very flexible and improvising attitude during workshops. He has the ability to let people see things differently.

Presentation: "Beyond Agile"

Track: Agile in Practice

Time: Wednesday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: St James's Suite

Abstract:

You need to work on both people and process to become successful and stay successful - people ad process are not opposites. If you want to see software teams and organizations differently, from a people oriented perspective, come to this session! We will present a fresh perspective on software organizations, focusing on subcultures and people's behavior.

We'll introduce different cultural patterns you can find in software organizations, based on Gerald M. Weinberg's work, and tell how to recognize them, what behavior to expect, and how they handle unexpected events and change. We will show the context in which these cultural patterns are effective and when they go awry. We will also show how different agile processes like Scrum, XP, and Lean Software Development fit in, while explaining some common agile failure modes.