Better Software West 2017 - Agile Leadership
Wednesday, June 7
Transitioning to Agile Leadership
The key to helping your teams transform and be successful in an agile world is to know what skills you need to be effective—and in turn, help your team navigate change. Jennifer Bonine focuses on providing a toolkit for agile leadership. Explore your level of acceptance of change, how adaptive you are, and strategies to help others adapt to change. Jennifer provides exercises that enable you to discover your leadership style and understand your blind spots as a leader. What metrics should you be measuring against as you adopt agile development methodologies and move away from a traditional...
Why Agile Works—and How (Not) to Screw It Up!
Agile practices can be the easy part of agile. Getting people into the agile mindset is often a greater challenge. Do you have a team member who doesn’t quite support agile or someone who’s playing along but not really committed? One step toward obtaining real commitment is a better understanding of why agile works, why it’s different, and when it is the right approach. In this fast moving session, Perry Reinert provides a fun look at some of the theory that gets to the core of why agile works. Yes, we really can use the words fun and theory in the same sentence! Combining parts of the...
Agile Leadership Strategies: Winning the War on Complexity
PreviewDevelopment teams are at war with complexity. A solo programmer's craft is difficult enough, but team development adds more volatility and ambiguity—what the U.S. military calls “the fog of war.” Derek Wade’s background in cognitive science has shown him that humans have innate skills at managing this complexity. But too often Derek sees leaders wasting precious human capital because they don’t understand how these skills work. For the past six years, Derek has explored team science which evolved from studying military, aviation, and clinical teams, for practical insights into how...