The Challenges for Agile People

As a technology and agile leader, I am always being asked the questions about what makes an agile transformation successful and what makes it fail, and aside from the usual discussions around the challenges of agile leadership, organisational changes required and frameworks that an organisation is adopting, throughout the conversation, I'm concerned that there’s an obvious missing element that many organisations seem to take for granted when transforming a business to new agile ways of working… the people. In this talk, using my own experiences from leading agile adoptions over the last 10+ years, I am going to share why we need our people to be agile, who an agile person is, uncovering what makes them tick, discovering the challenges they have to go through to be agile and listening to the advice being given to support them on their journey. Agenda: 6:15-6:25: Networking 6:25-6:30: Introduction 6:30-7:20: Talk from Giles 7:20-7:30: Q&A About the speaker: Giles is a technology and agile leader with over 25 years’ industry experience. He is a former CTO and is now the CEO of Agile Delta Consulting. He is a also a Fellow with the Chartered Institute for IT and a Fellow with the Institute of Analysts and Programmers. He’s a long-term Agilist and Enterprise Agile Coach as well as being member of the Advisory Council of the PMI Disciplined Agile Consortium.