I often hear, “We have Agile but we do not collaborate and morale is low.” I hate to break the news, but just because teams practice Agile does not mean that Agile culture and collaboration appear automatically. Establishing an Agile mindset requires teams to break their past habits and change their behaviors. However, this can be difficult when many have been led through their careers with ideas of the lone warrior and error avoidance in mind. Without leadership embracing, practicing, and protecting the shift to an Agile culture, it’s easy for teams to fall back into their old habits. This session will discuss how organizations can create a habit of agility for their teams, enabling culture change and Agile transformation success.

Agile transformations have been key for speeding up software development via agile "projects". With projects, development is still often segregated from the business and work is often prioritized based on making the project successful and not what can bring the most value to the business and end users. A new approach is needed. During this session, Wendy Flowers will discuss why the gap between modern technical practices and the business is causing organizations to fail and how managing work via product and not projects will optimize value creation across the entire organization.