Presentation: "Breaking your Agile Addiction"
Time: Thursday 11:45 - 12:45
Location: Henry Moore Room
Organisations want to become Agile instantly. They pick an agile method then get trained up. When it doesn't solve all their problems, they want more agile prescriptions, as if more agile practices can remedy any problem. Bootcamps and shock-therapy that push people to follow agile practices without thinking are not the answer.
Teams live in the real-world not a text-book! Whatever approach they use has to be flexible, to cope with distributed team members, external partners plus a whole mess of legacy systems. It also has to be simple because companies can't afford to put all employees through expensive agile rollout programs.
It's time to break your agile addiction to ready-made Agile methods and learn how to evolve your own solutions. The new challenge is how to grow internal coaches that understand how to support their business and create "kaizen" communities around disciplines rather than attempting a one-size-fits-all approach.
Keywords: agile, communities of practice
Target audience: this talk would be of interest to technical leads, development managers, and software engineers who are interested in adapting their approach to agile software development.