Ade Shokoya

AgileTV

Ade Shokoya is a Certified ScrumMaster and Scrum Professional, business analyst, and agile consultant who specializes in multi-million dollar agile transition projects. With more than eleven years of experience and a client list that includes internationally recognized companies including News Corps, Tesco, Metro, LexisNexis, and Capita, Ade Shokoya adopts a K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple & Straightforward) approach to agile transition. Ade is the author of Waterfall to Agile: A Practical Guide to Agile Transition and the founder of AgileTV.com where he regularly interviews world-leading agile experts and thought leaders.

Speaker Presentations

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 10:15am

Business Analysis & Requirements

Validating Assumptions: From Unknown to Known

Although many organizations are successfully using agile practices to develop higher quality, customer-satisfying solutions faster and cheaper, an increasing number of companies are using the same practices to develop the wrong solutions—faster and with a higher level of quality, too. Why is that? Even though most people know that assumptions are the mother of all things that go badly wrong, many “agile” adopting organizations still invest time, money, and resources developing “solutions” based solely on assumptions, opinions, and guesses.