Overcoming Common Pitfalls to Agile Adoption (Speaker: Tom Wessel)

Overcoming Common Pitfalls to Agile Adoption

As Organizations and individual teams adopt Agile, there are common road blocks encountered that impede them from realizing the full benefit of their Agile transformation.

These key pitfalls may include things like:

• Lack of Business participation

• Working within a waterfall organization

• Transitioning to Just In Time requirements

• Regression Testing

• Diluting the Agile principles and practices

• Overcoming people's natural resistance to change regardless of the change

This session will cover these key pitfalls and provide proven techniques to help you overcome them.

Speaker: Tom Wessel - Davisbase Consulting, LLC

Tom has over 20 years experience working in the software development field in the industries of banking, healthcare, cable and satellite and graphics. Tom's experience spans the entire end-to-end software development lifecycle with expertise in the areas of program and project management, quality assurance and control, configuration management, knowledge management, release management, development and technical support.

With over 7 years experience as a ScrumMaster, Agile Trainer and Agile Coach, Tom has worked with various sized organizations to plan, implement and train them on agile principles and evolve their agile discipline.

Tom's passion is working with people to transform how they deliver software so that they become an optimized enterprise that delivers greater value and quality to its customers. Tom is an accredited PMP and PMI-ACP from the Project Management Institute and a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Professional from the Scrum Alliance.