Every enterprise wants to develop software better, but adopting a methodology which fails to take into account your organization’s context, culture, and regulatory or legacy obligations is usually too risky. Too radical a change too quickly, or the wrong change too forcefully, can drive a wedge between engineering and business. Complete or partial process failures compound themselves by demoralizing teams. Additionally, pushing too much standardization can result in a fragile, failure-prone organization.
All of the popular lean and agile methodologies offer valuable insights and are backed by real success stories, but no methodology can work when it is carelessly or dogmatically applied. In the enterprise, it isn’t enough to follow someone else’s playbook. You need a deeper understanding of the “why”—the theory behind the methodology—so you can identify and address the real impediments to agile in your environment, and craft targeted solutions with confidence.
During this interactive workshop our discussion will explore the practices and principles that drive continued improvement, and how they can be introduced gently to the organization. Not just technically, either. We’ll discuss how to bring “the business side”, executives, even sales fully on board with agile—and how to make real progress while you are waiting for them to come around.
Whether you’ve tried and stalled before, or you’re just getting started and apprehensive about the road ahead, this interactive workshop is for you. Come discuss ideas to achieve a better, safer, and ultimately more effective path to a lean and agile adoption that will stick!
Workshop Goals
Attendees will interactively explore the essential agile and lean principles needed to drive change at the enterprise level. Likely outcomes will be knowledge of creating an enterprise Kanban structure that is suitable for their organization.