Agile Business: A Leaders Guide to Harnessing Complexity with Karl Scotland

Software is the new primal force. It drives every product, every business. As the world demands more software, organisations are meeting the challenge – by turning to Agile. After all, applications developed using Agile techniques have been shown to have three times the success rate of applications developed using more traditional methods. This talk will explore the elements needed to achieve organisational Agility, covering strategy, process and people.

Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with over 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last 10 years he has been successfully applying Agile methods, and most recently has been a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development.

Currently an Agile Coach with Rally Software in the UK, Karl is a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, and has previously championed Agile and Lean Thinking with the BBC, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting. Karl writes about his latest ideas on his blog at http://availagility.co.uk/ .