Comments on: Presentation on Agile in a Larger Context http://www.responsive.se/thomas/2009/10/09/presentation-on-agile-in-a-larger-context/ Thomas on Responsive Development of Systems and Software Sun, 16 May 2010 13:37:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas http://www.responsive.se/thomas/2009/10/09/presentation-on-agile-in-a-larger-context/comment-page-1/#comment-6180 Thomas Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:02:17 +0000 http://www.responsive.se/thomas/2009/10/09/presentation-on-agile-in-a-larger-context/#comment-6180 Yes, Joakim, it is kind of a difficult topic. There are few good examples, and trying Agile in most large organizations will reveal whole barrels of other problems in the organization, like immature management, lack of common visions, strong beliefs in command and control, treating individuals as replaceable resources and getting things done by pushing. Fortunately there are ways to proceed with an Agile transformation anyway, at least in my mind and to my experience. This was the first time I collected my thoughts on this topic and my main point was to make the participants feel confident that there are solutions to the perceived problems starting on a road to Agile. If the responses to the participant survey is any indication, at least I succeeded to some degree. But, of course there are always people hard to convince unless you have hard evidence. I will update the post with the slides from the talk, and probably do a blog for some of the main points. Yes, Joakim, it is kind of a difficult topic. There are few good examples, and trying Agile in most large organizations will reveal whole barrels of other problems in the organization, like immature management, lack of common visions, strong beliefs in command and control, treating individuals as replaceable resources and getting things done by pushing. Fortunately there are ways to proceed with an Agile transformation anyway, at least in my mind and to my experience.
This was the first time I collected my thoughts on this topic and my main point was to make the participants feel confident that there are solutions to the perceived problems starting on a road to Agile. If the responses to the participant survey is any indication, at least I succeeded to some degree. But, of course there are always people hard to convince unless you have hard evidence.
I will update the post with the slides from the talk, and probably do a blog for some of the main points.

]]> By: Joakim http://www.responsive.se/thomas/2009/10/09/presentation-on-agile-in-a-larger-context/comment-page-1/#comment-6175 Joakim Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:47:02 +0000 http://www.responsive.se/thomas/2009/10/09/presentation-on-agile-in-a-larger-context/#comment-6175 Hi Thomas! Sounds like an excellent but difficult topic. Could you summarize a little bit what you talked about? Was it well received? Hi Thomas!

Sounds like an excellent but difficult topic. Could you summarize a little bit what you talked about? Was it well received?

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