CON2019 - Stop Doing Scrum; Start Being Agile HD

This session’s speaker says, “If I got a cent for each time I heard a variant of ‘We implemented Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Xp at our company, but it didn’t work for us, because we do things differently,’ I would have 4.10 € (or $).” During this session, he goes into why you should stop trying to implement a methodology from a book in just one team and instead try to create an agile methodology for your company as a whole. He discusses • The history of agile and the ideas behind it • How you can enlighten your company about the advantages of agile • Successes and failures and how we can learn from them At the end of this session, you’ll have ideas, tips, and tricks for making your company agile. Speaker: Peter Van de Voorde, Community Developer, Atlassian Peter is a 33 year old Belgian with a love of boardgames, skiing, reading, socializing and helping people. He started 9 years ago as a Java Developer and has since then taking part in over 20 projects in different roles, ranging from support over development to scrummaster and project coördinator and is now Technical Program Manager at Atlassian. He was a Speaker at JavaOne 2012,2014, Geecon 2014, 2015, CraftConf 2015 and more. More information and recordings of his previous talks can be found at his blog: http://www.petervandevoorde.com