Agile & Organizational Culture Stage
Producer: Marc Evers
Assistant: Linda Rising
Agile is all about changing your organization. It’s not only about changing the way you work and changing the way you think - doing agile in a sustainable way requires changing principles and values. Change doesn’t come easy. An agile initiative doesn’t take place in a vacuum, it has to interface with the existing (organizational) culture, because it will influence its organizational context and the other way around. This is a process of mutual adaptation, where one possible result is that the agile initiative can be destroyed by the organizational immune system.
This stage provides a space for discussing, teaching, learning, and sharing experiences about agile and culture. We offer tutorials, talks, workshops, experience reports, and a panel structured as three parallel tracks. The program for this stage includes sessions on:
- managing change and resistance
- story telling
- jazz improvisation
- agile transition experiences in many different types of organizations
- ethics
- politics
- appreciative inquiry
- project ownership
- haiku-driven development
Come join us for an enlightening and perhaps world-changing experience at Agile 2008!
Review Team
- Lyssa Adkins - Independent, USA
- Jonathan Andrew-Wolter - ThoughtWorks, USA
- Tim Bacon - Independent, UK
- Steve Baker - DTE Energy, USA
- Brent Barton - SolutionsIQ, USA
- Gabrielle Benefield - Yahoo!, USA
- Steve Berczuk - Cyrus Innovation, USA
- Clarke Ching - aBiggerGlass.com, USA
- John Favaro - Consulenza Informatica, Italy
- Michael Feathers - Object Mentor, USA
- Ellen Gottesdiener - EGB Consulting, USA
- Ronald Haentjens Dekker - Huygens Instituut, Netherlands
- Paul Hammond - Microsoft, UK
- Yves Hanoulle - Paircoaching.net, Belgium
- Misko Hevery - Google, USA
- Mike Hill - Mandu, UK
- Diana Larsen - FutureWorks Consulting, USA
- Lowell Lindstrom - Oobeya Group, USA
- Emerson Murphy-Hill - Portland State University, USA
- Mary Lynn Manns - University of North Carolina, USA
- Sam Newman - ThoughtWorks, UK
- Ainsley Nies - Acorn Consulting Enterprises, USA
- Bernard Notarianni - Octo Technology, France
- David Putman - Independent, UK
- Keith Ray - Industrial Logic, Inc, USA
- Helen Sharp - Open University, UK
- Geoffrey Slinker - Independent, USA
- Michael Spayd - Collective Edge Consulting, USA
- Jon Spence - Medtronic, USA
- Chris Sterling - SolutionsIQ, USA
- Jean Tabaka - Rally Software, USA
- Scott Turnquist - , USA
- Barbara Weber - University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Kelly Weyrauch - Medtronic, USA
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Wirfs-Brock Associates, USA
- Joris van Zundert - Huygens Instituut, Netherlands
