Navigating Politics in Agile or Lean Initiatives • Katherine Kirk • GOTO 2014

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2014 http://gotocon.com Katherine Kirk - Independent Consultant & Researcher ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered why, when you’ve finally got Agile/Lean working nicely in your software engineering team, managers or ‘outsiders’ can come in and create politics ‘un-necessarily’, despite your best efforts? Have you ever sat there in meetings frustrated and exasperated at the seemingly unnecessary dramatics some participants go through? Or, when you start an Agile/Lean initiative, the surrounding politics in the company sometimes escalate rather than decrease? Or perhaps you are struggling with some internal team members who just can’t seem to drop the politics and adapt to ‘this different way of working’…. What’s going on? Why doesn't pure data, logic, transparency and collaboration always work? In order to provide new insights as to why this happens and what we can do about it, in this talk, Katherine draws on eastern and tribal philosophy to ‘kick off’ different thinking and find practical and realistic ways that deal positively with destructive politics and/or prevent scenarios like these from even happening in the first place. 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