Submitter: Francisco Trindade & Luca Grulla
The Agile Manifesto has been signed in 2001, and since then agile practices have gone from being used in niches to become mainstream and widely adopted.
After this time, we would expect teams to move in the Dreyfus model, progressing from novice to expert levels, understanding the values and questioning the current practices. Instead, the evolution in Agile practices is presented as off-the-shelf solutions and ready to use jargon, making most agile teams stay put, changing from being novice in one set of practices to being novice in every new set which is proposed by the industry, without never really getting into its core values, and losing the focus on the main goal, which is to deliver software.
This presentation is going to question the way Agile practices are presented and adopted, and how the search for quick pre-made solutions can impact negatively the future of the movement.
Process
We will introduce our point of view in a 45 minutes presentation, with the first half focused on how Agile has been adopted and the second half focused on our point of view on how the current approach can negatively impact the agile movement in the future.
During the first half of the presentation we will use example of agile practices related to the Dreyfus model to start a conversation with the audience, identifying real world example of "novice-to-novice" transition.
These will give the base for introducing in the second half of the session what we believe are the problems on how Agile has been adopted in the industry, and will let us close the session facilitating a discussion amongst the audience members, comparing our point of view with the ones coming from the audience.
Learning outcomes
* Change the way you see agile adoption
* Question the way agile is being adopted/sold
* Understand why you are struggling doing agile
This presentation will also be conducted at the Agiles 2009 conference in Brazil (http://www.agiles2009.org/en/session.php?id=5)
