The Agile movement may have reached a tipping point. Many are finding that deploying Agile has not gained them the business benefits they are looking for. Looking deeper into what has occurred in many of the “Agile deployments”, there seems to be a focus on “doing Agile” and very little on “being Agile”. “Doing Agile” focuses on skills and process change. What is needed to gain the business benefits from Agile is a strong focus on the cultural and behavioral changes for “Being Agile” which focuses on a willingness to continuously adapt toward customer value.
In this interactive session, we will walk-through the Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Framework that is discussed in the new Agile book entitled, “Being Agile”. The primary focus will be on the Agile Readiness activities that can help you lay the ground work for achieving an Agile transformation and the business benefits it can bring.
This will include:
- Establishing a vision for moving to Agile
- Embracing the Agile principles
- Evaluating buy-in and willingness
- Considering measures of success
- Highlighting risk factors preventing you from achieving the Agile mindset
- And much more
If you are contemplating Agile, you will walk out with an Agile Roadmap focused on transforming and if you are in the midst of an Agile adoption and not seeing the benefits you were hoping for, you will gain insight into improving your direction.
About the speaker:
Mario Moreira is an Agile/Lean Consultant with Emergn Limited. He is an Enterprise Agile Coach who helps companies transform to Agile and gain the business benefits of doing so. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Professional (CSP) having implemented Scrum, XP, and Kanban at the product and organizational levels Mario has worked in the Technology, Software, Product, Architecture, and Methodology fields since 1986 and has been involved with Agile since 1998. He has written several Agile books (“Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams” and “Agile for Dummies”) and has recently released his new book entitled, “Being Agile – Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile.” He has written for the “Agile Journal” and “CM Journal” and currently writes articles for the Agile Adoption Roadmap Blog (http://cmforagile.blogspot.com/).
