We all know that the Agile profession has been having challenges. But the good news is that true agility is needed more than ever.

The dilemma that we need to solve is that many business executives do not feel that Agile is solving their problems today. We need to accept that, and not try to blame them – that they “don’t understand” or “aren’t doing it right”.

I am on the Agile Alliance’s committee to reimagine Agile, so I have been thinking about this a lot. I’d like to share with you how I think that we can all reimagine Agile together, to make it relevant again. By doing that, we can redefine ourselves and our value!

Takeaways:

• Agility is needed today more than ever: it is the most critical strategic differentiator
• Agility is not “Agile”. We need to focus on the former to redefine the latter
• Today, everyone must be a leader
• Leaders and managers are important
• We need a more expansive view – we can’t just focus on development teams. We need to consider the entire value stream, including financial, marketing, and business elements
• We need to base our ideas on established research in fields such as behavioral psychology, leadership theory, cognitive science, systems theory, and operations research – not individual practitioner opinions

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About the Instructor:

Cliff Berg Cliff Berg is managing partner for Agile 2 Academy, a company founded to help organizations to achieve true agility without Agile frameworks. As a successful tech entrepreneur, Cliff was co-founder and CTO of Digital Focus, a startup that grew from 2 to 200 people in five years and was known for its success in rapidly building high reliability Internet-facing business critical systems for companies like FedEx, McKesson, United Overseas Bank, and many others. It was acquired in 2006. Cliff’s 2006 textbook High- Assurance Design documents many of the engineering and agility lessons learned. Since then Cliff has helped with more than ten Agile or DevOps transformations, and is a DevOps trainer and subject matter expert. In 2020 Cliff assembled the global Agile 2 team to reimagine “Agile”, and was the lead author of the Agile 2 book. Cliff is certified in the Human Synergistics organizational culture assessment tools. He has degrees from Cornell University in Operations Research, Nuclear Engineering, and Physics.

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