Don't Kill Agility with Agile Processes • Aino Vonge Corry & Troels Richter • GOTO 2014

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2014 http://gotocon.com Aino Vonge Corry - Retrospectives Facilitator @ainocorry3004 Troels Richter - Agile Coach, Trifork Software Pilot and Micropreneur @TroelsRichter ABSTRACT Why is it that so many teams spend a lot of effort planning, estimating, and building a velocity but still can't reach the sprint goal? Why is it that so many teams are practicing standup meetings every morning even though it does not necessarily add value to each and every one participating? Agile practices are widely used and most of us see it as a sign of health and agility even though thousands of companies are struggling to make it work. Maybe it is possible to establish a agile culture without using agile processes, and maybe it is possible to replace or even draw back existing agile practices and still optimize for agility? Throughout the last couple of years, Troels Richter (Agile Coach) and Aino Vonge Corry (Agile Facilitator) has had similar experiences indicating that agile practices can have a negative effect on agility and that agility can be practiced without knowing about Scrum or Kanban. The only problem is that it is undermining everything they have believed until now and maybe they have to admit that there is something about it when Prag-Dave Thomas (co-author of the agile manifesto) recently claimed that "Agile is Dead" RECOMMENDED BOOKS Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • https://amzn.to/2XjbWor Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • https://amzn.to/3tpAqb5 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • https://amzn.to/2X4GQAD https://twitter.com/gotocon https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter