Tze Chin Tang - Agile Transformation: You're doing it all wrong!

Let’s face it, Agile is hot, it’s in and everyone’s and their mom is doing it.

OK, not really, but it is trendy and popular. However, business trends have come and gone over past decades.

Project Management, Lean Six Sigma, CMMI, and Business Process Reengineering were once heralded as the “silver bullet” that would solve all organizational woes and lead to success, profits, and unicorns.

Who’s to say that Agile won’t be the same and similarly go out of fashion?

Agile’s death has long been touted, by its manifesto’s authors, no less. However, it is not yet dead and we have the chance and opportunity to avoid similar fates.

If you’re an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or someone preaching agility, then this talk is for you, though only if you’re open to the possibility that you’re doing it wrong!*

A common challenge for the Agile Coaches I work with is dealing with difficult people, changing other people, and demonstrating to business stakeholders the value of agility.

However, there is no real way to change other people and we can only use ourselves as role models and demonstrate through our own behaviors what agility truly involves.

Join us for a talk around the challenges of making real change stick in the pursuit of agility. *only if you are, in fact, doing it wrong! :)

Learning Outcomes:

What is the promise of agility?

• What are change management and its pitfalls?
• Be reminded that agile isn’t a framework, it’s a set of values and principles
• Introduced to the principles of change and agency (aka you can’t actually change anyone)
• Introduced to the concept of Use of Self as an instrument of change
• Introduce some actionable ideas for introducing opportunities for change