With an array of different flavors, agile has a lot to offer. With Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, DevOps, XP and everything else in between, organizations today can feel like kids in a candy store picking the right flavor for their teams.

Whatever methodology you might choose or however deep you might be into your agile adaptation journey, your people will play a very important role in making your adaption a success story.Are you or your organization suffering from failed agile transformations or not seeing the results even after following the manual to the T? Instead of blaming the methodology and retrospecting your choice , could you be compromising on one of the basic founding principles of agile: Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools. Specifically- people! You are diverse, but are you inclusive?

Join me as we discuss the power individuals have over anything and everything in agile. Together, we’ll uncover ways in which we can use empathy, inclusion and efficient employment to get the people onboarded onto your change train and make your transformation journey a success story.

In the February of 2001, seventeen independent- minded software practitioners got together and developed what we know as the Agile Manifesto. The purpose of the manifesto was to provide guidelines for agile adaptation in organizations seeking better and faster ways to develop software and to serve as the north star for teams, coaches, trainers and change agents seeking to implement the best agile had to offer.

It has since been 18 years and the manifesto remains unchanged. Mainstream agilists and troupers are passionate about the comprehensiveness of the manifesto and believe that it is self-adapting to the needs of today’s software and solution development.

So have things truly ‘changed’? Does the manifesto need a revisiting? Is it time to amend the agile principles and modernize them to today's growing software demands or is the manifesto truly adjusting and inclusive of all change?

Let’s get together and refresh our understanding of the manifesto and the 12 original principles.

Do you want to have a high functioning Agile team? If so, this session is for you! We’re going beyond the rules of agile frameworks and learning to apply those principles to improve our teams and companies! The 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto capture the reasons we are able to deliver better software. This is the “why” for some of the rules behind Scrum and Kanban. The principles ought guide our decisions about practices, scaling, and solving tricky problems!

In this session, we will use the 12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto as our foundation. Then, we will  apply techniques such as Force Field Analysis to apply the principles to your challenges at work. Lastly, we will use principles of change management to make the change more likely to stick.

From an agile implementation perspective, emphasizing the art of facilitation is an incredibly powerful tool for creating a culture of collaboration, and then leveraging that culture as a springboard to organizational transformation.  With strong facilitators at the gateway between business and IT, within IT delivery teams, and at key intersection points within an organization, the challenges to achieving organizational agility diminish. Strong facilitators bring forth the wisdom of teams and provide a container for self-organization. Facilitation is the cornerstone of servant leadership.