Big Agility Requires Little-a agile

The hardest part of big projects is that they are BIG. Of course “big” means different things to different people. What some measure in cash, others measure in technology. Little value flows when we focus on the number of people “doing agile.” Big value is more likely to flourish when agility is a tool for overcoming complexity. Instead of a talk about “doing agile in the large”, David Hussman speaks to agility as a tool instead of a mandate. Drawing on experiences helping big projects build big products and systems, David describes ways to successfully introduce large-scale agility, foster and measure success in the early iterations, and take on the coaching challenges and other complexities involved in building and sustaining competitive and healthy agility. Agility that spans teams, time, and features begins with finding a process that helps you learn instead of following a process “from the book”. Come ready to toss out the book and start taking ownership of a way of working that helps you learn and helps you scale agility to focus on outcome instead of inputs.