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How to defeat agile resistance
- Organiser: Rob Westgeest
- Session duration: 90 minutes
- Session type: Thinktank
- Intended audience: Developers, Architects, Project Managers, Software Development Coaches.
- Presentation language: Dutch or English.
Session Background
Introducing XP or any other Agile approach is easy when a project is struggling and everyone on the team knows that something must change. Then a newcomer with ideas that sound reasonable combined with a charisma can come in and give people hope and faith in a succesfull ending.
Such a situation is rare. More often introducing Agile principles is difficult. You have to deal with characteristics like:
- conservative environments
- big projects
- tight (or surreal) timescales
- many different strong opinions to approaches to end the project successfully;
- RUP implementations with waterfall characteristics
- (WEB) development environments where different skills are separated
- people that rely on project or team leaders to tell them what to do.
- rebuild-a-system projects.
Surely these characteristics have a rationale: beit the organisation, history, former failed projects, solutions to earlier problems etc. Our goal is to turn these characteristics to our advantage.
Session Description
In a structured think tank session I encourage the attendants to come up with project characteristics that either made agile introductions succesfull, problematic or even fail.
Together we structure them and find ways to recognise the characteristices that can make an introduction succesfull and to defeat the characteristics that make it fail
Benefits to the participants
The participants will learn new strategies to introducing agile principles to software development in complex software development environments. They will improve their ability to see/recognise the hurdles they need to conquer and get suggestions on howto conquer them.
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