I started my Agile journey in 1985 when after graduating I had the chance to work in research. We had no idea that what we do is Agile, we just did it. Later I moved from Aided Design and Manufacturing to coding, completing the journey from developer to Development Manager and CTO. Along the way I evolved from "cowboy" developer to more structured and disciplined approaches. My first 'encounter' with formal Agile was in 2001 when I discovered XP. As a Software Development Manager and Later Project and Program Manager I used Agile practices in over 50 projects. I learned that Agile is not a silver bullet and is not easy but is not only an option but an option to survive in a continuous changing world.

Agile is maturing, the success of software development teams is pushing for scaling up to the enterprise level. One significant challenge is that not everybody in the organisation thinks like a developer. As important as adapting to a different way of thinking is to convince the people with money that Agile is way more than a trendy word. It can and it should make the enterprise more profitable.

Using a combination of presentations, case studies and interactive workshops the participants will get a better understanding on what Agile is, benefits and challenges of Agile transformations.

Agility continues to be a highly discussed topic. The success of using Agile approaches, mainly Scrum, at the team level has organisations and managers thinking of replicating its success at the department level and even at the organisation level. In addition to popular frameworks and practices associated with Agile there are new roles (Agile Coach, Scrum Master) or traditional roles that were re-branded Agile (Agile Project Manager, Agile Business Analyst, Agile Tester, etc.) that should support the transition to a new kind of organisation, called "Agile Enterprise".

This interactive presentation focuses on the Agility at the Enterprise level from a practitioner's perspective, explaining the difference between the new Agile Enterprise (a top down Agile approach) and Enterprise Agile (the bottom up Agile transformation) that is scaling popular Agile frameworks from team level to organisation level.