Teams can hesitate to adopt agile practices, even when there’s a clear desire for transformation at the executive level. But there are strategies for coaching agile-skeptical teams into an agile mindset. Scott Weiner will detail an approach in depth, including working with leadership to create transparency and space for the team to experiment and learn, adopting a retrospective process and using it as an engine for change, educating the team on agile’s value while focusing on a small set of goals, and building trust and shared understanding by problem-solving collaboratively. We’ll discuss...
Scott Weiner
Scott Weiner is a trusted adviser and agile strategist passionate about developing high-performance teams and supporting better executive decisions through strategic planning and effective coaching. He has educated and lectured many thousands of software engineers, managers, and executives over a twenty-five-year career in technology, project management, organizational theory, and leadership; developed hundreds of programs for various organizations around agile principles, many of them dealing with multinational and remote team challenges; coached hundreds of teams and dozens of organizations; and as a former CEO, CTO, and VP of Engineering, led many successful software teams.