Is Agile in our DNA? By Dave Sharrock

Agile has been around for a while. The Agile Manifesto was penned in 2001. By 2010 CIO Magazine had Agile identified as one of the top 3 trends any technology-minded leader should be actively incorporating into their organizations. And today, Agile is so well entrenched that it feels like we have always been Agile.

Now for the hard part. Agile is a mindset. A philosophy on how to approach product delivery. The practices and frameworks will fade in and out of the spotlight, but, as Marty Cagan has said, the core Lean and Agile principles are, hopefully, here to stay. But this is the riskiest part of the journey. We think we have this agility thing in our DNA and can start looking to the future. This is the moment that John Kotter described as institutionalizing change.

We will discuss how to understand where you are on your agile journey. Is agility in your DNA, or still an outlier in how you get work done? How can we visualize what agility looks like in our organization? How can we understand what remains to be done to lock in the agile mindset?
Specifically, we will look at five dimensions across your organization, and evaluate how strongly agility is in the DNA of your organization. From this perspective, we can identify opportunities to strengthen the change and where to move on, confident in the knowledge of a job well done. Come and learn how to peel back the covers on your organizational agility.

Speaker Bio
Dave Sharrock helps companies and organizations get things done visibly and early by applying an agile/lean mindset to product development. Dave has over 20 years’ experience working with product delivery organizations, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, telecommunications to branded consumer goods. A sought-after speaker and consultant, Dave is an expert on organizational change and agile product delivery and the only Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) in Canada. A firm believer in continuous learning, Dave also holds an MBA and a PhD, and developed the UBC Agile Leadership Award of Achievement. Dave moved to Vancouver in 2010 from Europe, and is the visionary and founder behind IncrementOne.