agile transition

Conference Presentations

Software Managers: Their Place in Agile
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No more managers! No more hierarchy! A truly self organizing, self-running team! These phrases strike fear into managers almost as much as: We are moving to agile. As successful companies like Zappos, GitHub, and Treehouse discard managers from their teams, other software...
Brian Sobus, Teradata
Agility at Scale: WebSphere’s Agile Transformation
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In today's rapidly changing environment, organizations—both large and small—must quickly respond to shifting market requirements to remain competitive. To be successful, many are adopting agile development and continuous delivery methodologies to deliver software quickly, while keeping...
Susan Hanson, IBM Software Group
Seven Key Metrics to Improve Agile Performance
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It’s been said: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. For most agile teams burndown charts and some type of velocity measurement are all they are doing. However, with just a few more metrics, you can gain substantial insight into how teams are performing and identify improvement...
Andrew Graves, InterContinental Hotels Group
Making Agile Work—with Eleven Product Owners
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Small companies that have been highly successful delivering software often struggle as they grow larger and their software needs to grow with them. They must learn to manage multiple technology platforms and multiple releases while dealing with the associated roadmaps and...
Neal Huffman, Apex Capital Corp.
A Very Large Enterprise Agile Transformation: Lessons Learned at Salesforce
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When the agile consultants leave, how do you ensure that the enterprise agile transformation sticks, evolves, and grows throughout the organization? What challenges will you face? What support must be in place to address the challenges? Like software products, the real cost of an agile...
Mike Register, Salesforce.com
Assessing Agile Engineering Practices
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Organizations are often reluctant to adopt the more challenging agile engineering practices—first seen together in Extreme Programming and later adopted by the Scrum Alliance as the Scrum Developer Practices. These practices are difficult to implement and sustain, and the benefits are...
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
The Agile PMO: Right Work, Right Time, Right People

One of the core functions of a PMO is to help an organization standardize efficient processes to select and execute strategic projects. Unfortunately, many PMOs are finding themselves struggling to justify their own existence. In a recent survey, more than half of the respondents reported...
Heather Fleming, Gilt Groupe, and Justin Riservato, Gilt Groupe
Dealing with Auditors: Helping Them Understand Agile
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It is widely understood that agile mitigates project execution risks. However, auditors and regulators unfamiliar with the agile process often reject it as non-compliant. In regulated industries, organizations seeking to adopt agile are often challenged to provide evidence that...
Steve Nunziata, Independent Consultant
A Holistic View of Complex Systems and Organizational Change
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One of the most misunderstood concepts in the agile community, complexity is often used to explain why we can’t predict anything or why there are no rules we can follow. Ironically, it is exactly this attitude that allows complexity to work against us. Al Shalloway discusses the true...
Al Shalloway, Net Objectives
Executives’ Influence on Agile: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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The evidence is in—and it's compelling. Well-executed agile practices can shorten software project schedules by 30 percent while cutting defects by 75 percent. However, many organizations struggle with agile adoption. And some of these struggles can be attributed to the...
Steve Davi, Synacor

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