Exploring if Agile is Still Agile

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer. They explore the question “Is agile still agile?”, look at the challenges around agile development and product management, and what is needed for large scale agile transformation. Why listen to this podcast: - Agile is a mindset, not a set of processes or practices - The risks and dangers of packaged implementation of “agile” using process checkboxes without understanding why - Agile adoption is hard – simple but not easy - When agile practices are adopted for the wrong reasons it causes stress levels to go up and drives unsustainable behavioursIt’s not “twice the work in half the time”; it should be about twice the value with half the work - The Scrum role of Product Owner is broken - Product management is the hardest part of product development, irrespective of the development approachIn a complex world your only chance for survival is learning Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2g2hWuR 4m:15s - Some teams can benefit from checkbox, packaged implementations of agility as a starting point but they must be able to evolve. 4m:30s - Agility is a journey – you need to be agile in mindset, based around continuous improvement. 4m:40s - The most agile teams are the ones who continually inspect and adapt their practices to work most effectively for their context. 5m:00s - Checkbox teams who follow every one of the practices without knowing why are unable to improve and are not effective. 5m:15s - It’s about understanding and getting to the heart of why – for your process and for your product. 5m:30s - The checkbox process is easy for companies to measure and doing so drives bad behaviour. Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2g2hWuR You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/2cMnjfW