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Scott Ambler
Job Founding Member
email scott [at] disciplinedagileconsortium [dot] org
Company Disciplined Agile Consortium
City (Country) Toronto, Canada
Time 1h
Type of Conference Conference > 100 attendees
Level Everybody

Beyond “Easy Agile”: How to Overcome the Challenges of Adopting Agile in Established Enterprises

Biography

Scott W. Ambler is a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined. He is also the Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates, working with organizations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile (DA), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Ed., and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com.

Description

Many agile methods and strategies are geared towards small teams working in reasonably straightforward situations. That’s great work if you can get it. Most enterprises that are adopting agile today have been in operations for decades and sometimes centuries. They are typically dealing with significant investments in legacy systems and processes that won’t go away any time soon. They have an existing culture that is usually not-as-agile as it could be and an organization structure that puts up many roadblocks to collaboration. Their staff members are often overly specialized and many people do not have skills in agile software development techniques, and there are many thoughts as to what needs to be done to improve things, the adoption of agile being one of many. This is certainly not the startup company environment that we keep hearing about. In this keynote prsentation Scott Ambler reviews the challenges faced by established enterprises when transforming to agile and what enterprise agile means in practice. He then overviews the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework, a pragmatic and context-sensitive approach to enterprise agile, working through how it addresses the realities faced by modern organizations. Data from recent industry data will be shared to describe what is happening in practice on enterprise agile teams. Scott then works through advice for transforming your enterprise to become more agile, including the people-process-tools triad and the skills and experience required of enterprise agile team coaches and executive agile coaches. He ends with an overview of proven strategies for adopting agile in less-than-ideal environments Agenda: • The challenges faced by established enterprises • Enterprise agile in practice – OR - Thinking outside of the Scrum and SAFe boxes • Pragmatic agile over purist agile • The people-process-tools triad – Or – Going beyond focusing on being agile • The skills of an enterprise team coach • The skills of an enterprise executive coach • The reality of working with some of your IT teams – OR – Prepare for anything from open arms to a multi-year, running gun battle Benefits: • Discover why agile is different in established enterprises • Learn how to overcome common enterprise roadblocks to agile adoption • Learn how agile software development works in enterprises • Discover what it means to coach in established enterprises Audience • Practitioners in established enterprises hoping to adopt agile • Agile coaches hoping to up-skill to enterprise agile coaches • Agile transformation coaches working in established enterprises

Benefits for the attendees

Discover why agile is different in established enterprises • Learn how to overcome common enterprise roadblocks to agile adoption • Learn how agile software development works in enterprises • Discover what it means to coach in established enterprises

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Submitted by ppetit on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 02:02