Speaker: Mike Cottmeyer

Presentation Title: Scaling Agile to the Enterprise

Track: Advancing Agility

Presentation Time: 9:15am
Duration: 90 minutes

Agile methodologies are helping teams deliver software faster and with much higher quality than ever before. Given the success of agile at the team level, many managers are exploring the possibility of implementing these methodologies across the entire product delivery organization. These managers launch their adoption efforts only to uncover many common myths, misperceptions, and obstacles that derail their efforts before they really get started. Organizations fail to become agile because they don't understand what makes agile teams work. Mike Cottmeyer describes a roadmap for agile adoption that begins with teams and demonstrates how teams work together to deliver more complex projects and portfolios. Mike expands the team concept to include capabilities and shows how capabilities can be organized to optimize value across the enterprise value stream. At each step of the adoption process, Mike will demonstrate how to choose the policies, practices, and metrics that create learning and drive sustainable organizational change.