Psychology behind Agile with Dr. Stefanie Puckett

This session explains some of the psychology behind the Agile Manifesto. It provides a science-based perspective that helps leaders, Agile Coaches, and Scrum Masters as well as Agile practitioners to understand the psychological logic and levers behind fostering motivation and improving performance through agile ways of working. From a psychological perspective, agile working approaches, principles, and methods are going in the right direction to promote performance, motivation, satisfaction, and even individual health. But there is room for improvement. Psychological fallacies and pitfalls are revealed and practical advice is given.

About the speaker

Stefanie founded Psychology4Agility and works as a consultant and coach with her clients on leadership, and personal and organizational development. She speaks internationally and provides online psychological education for Agile Coaches and change leaders.

As a Psychologist, Dr. Puckett accompanies leaders, teams, and companies on their journey to realizing their potential for more than fifteen years. She worked in Germany, Switzerland, and the US, for several consulting companies, a Fortune 500 company, and owned her own business.