Presented By: Don McGreal
Agile Adoption Track: 2:45pm-3:45pm
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Join us as we explore four levels of agile adoption in this interactive session.
- Individual Adoption: The mindset of an agile team member and strategies for promoting agile within their team and beyond.
- Development Team Adoption: Strategies for a team that may not even have the support of the business and management.
- Project Adoption: Development and business strategies within an enterprise that may not support agile.
- Enterprise Adoption: Transitioning an organization from the top-down.
Along the way, we’ll cover topics such as: cross-team dependencies, non-dedicated teams, mapping existing roles to agile roles, matrix organizations, third-party dependencies, scaling agile, regulatory constraints, and any other challenges brought up by participants.
Presented By: Caleb Jenkins
Agile Adoption Track: 11am-12pm
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Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people. Making Scrum work with larger teams or in large enterprise environments brings its own set of challenges. This talk presents 3 patterns used on enterprise teams and the lessons learned in practice at a global software company to scale Scrum effectively with global teams.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the key elements of the Scrum Framework and how it drives success in building software
- Discover Scrum’s limitations in large organizations and how they can be over overcome
- Explore 3 non-exclusive and interworking organizational patterns that your teams can adopt to gain the benefits of scrum while scaling to larger development and product groups.
Presented By: Barry Rogers
Agile Adoption Track: 9:45am-10:45am
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Many organizations dive into the process mechanics of Agile project execution losing sight of the point of Agile in the first place. This presentation focuses on Agile as a culture. It incorporates hands-on exercises and provides tools that you can use for enabling Agile values and principles within your teams.
