Everyone else is just wrong!

"Some people build a team using a purely practical perspective and everyone else is just wrong."
"Some people build a team using empathy and relationships and everyone else is just wrong."

We realize that both of those statements are a bit over the top.
When people don't understand the makeup of their teams as complex organisms, misunderstandings and conflict can ruin everything. It is way too easy to use broad brush strokes in defining how an Agile team should come to be.

• If everyone else is wrong, how do you move forward?
• If everyone else is wrong, what can you do just to survive?
• There are always 2 sides to a story. Let's find truth!

After this presentation you will be able to identify where you land and chart your course for a more cohesive path forward with your team(s). (but everyone else is still wrong....)

Biography:
Nicole Wilker is a reformed software engineer trying to make the world a better place one agile principle at a time. Her mission revolves around removing roadblocks to provide you the best possible path on your agile journey. She has been running, coaching and mentoring agile teams as well as supporting teammates in Scrum, Agile and Lean. She thrives in the servant leader role and garners tremendous joy when helping other see their path, have their aha moment or succeed in whatever they are aiming for. When she is not doing all she can for those around her, she can be found in the mountains of Colorado, snuggling with her rescue pup, taking walks with her amazing husband or cooking up a storm.

Arjay Hinek has been in software project management since the '90s and has been applying Agile as a cultural change for the last decade, serving and leading in multiple companies. He is currently the Agile Leadership Team Transformation Agilist for Red Hat's Product Engineering. There he also provides workshops and mentoring for Agile Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and newly formed Agile teams. Arjay also chairs the annual Red Hat Agile Day event, which he co-founded. As a Certified Team Coach, Arjay is always looking for ways to help teams learn as they continuously improve. He comments on those and other Agile efforts in his blog, "So Agile It Hurts Sometimes" (http://goscrumgo.com/) Outside of work, Arjay and his wife, Cathy, raise chickens and enjoy the company of their two dogs, Matilda and Gunnar.