The current buzz in the industry is all about Business Agility. The majority of the literature, publications, and marketing makes the case that to achieve business agility organization’s need to undertake an agile transformation. And those organizations that do not adopt agile, will struggle in the market and be challenged with their current business model. The session will address the description of Business Agility, describe what is an Agile Transformation, and look at the relationship between business agility and agile transformation.

The Agile Manifesto has been around for over 16 years. That seems like enough time for organizations to adapt to Agile processes and get the hang of writing Agile contracts. Yet, when it comes time for US Federal Agencies to enter into a contract about Agile work processes and deliverables, we're still seeing Waterfall language persist.

If we want to see Agile software development contracts that are truly aligned for the best interests of all parties involved, there are a few steps that we need to take. Learn what these steps are in this presentation.

No one has more trouble making the switch to Agile than traditional PMs. Learn how to Inspect and adapt your way to a more Agile version of you and design a journey towards facilitation and collaboration mastery.

Corporations are becoming more complex by growing and adding new layers of indirection between the front line workers and the problems that needs solutions. This seems to be unavoidable but there is an increasing realization that instituting new models like scrum of scrums to force fit, agile processes to corporate hierarchies isn’t going to work. So find out what is the solution.

The presentation is a case study of how Agile (Scrum/Kanban) can be applied to business development (BD).

Business Development is about managing increasing amounts of investment or determining where to invest. Agile business development is about learning, failing and succeeding quickly in this process. This talk presents a case study from the presenter's personal experience in coaching, training and mentoring 6 BD teams how to apply Agile to their work. 

The case study will cover how the following challenges of applying Agile to BD activities were addressed:

• How do you define a Release?
• How to do release planning?
• How to define Sprint goals?
• Do we write User Stories? 
• Do we size the stories?
• Do we calculate velocity?
• How do you do Sprint planning?
• Do we need a Scrum Master? Who should play this role?
• What is the right duration of a Sprint?

Doing Agile is more than just the summation of all the roles, ceremonies and artifacts of a method like Scrum. Agile only works when one has the courage to really realize the concepts, values and principles at its core. The secret is in "being" Agile in thinking so that it manifests in the "doing."

The session will present common patterns observed in organizations and teams thinking they are "doing" Agile, whereas their practices are very "Fr-agile". These patterns are signs of Agile being practiced in an unhealthy way leading to complete failure or a less-than-expected outcome with unfulfilled expectations.

The presentation is for executives and senior managers responsible for supporting and leading agile transformation in their organizations. In addition, both experienced Agile practitioners and those who have just started or are planning to start their agile adoption journey will find this session helpful in learning about common anti-Agile patterns.