Talk: Less dogmatic, more pragmatic approach to Agile

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Title:	Less dogmatic, more pragmatic approach to Agile
Short synopsis:	As a community of Agile and Lean software professionals we often face working in environments, where people have to come on and Agile needs introducing. Far too often introduction of Agile is reduced to dogmatic litany of processes and practices to follow leaving the uninitiated not convinced. Values of human contact, customer involvement as early and as often as possible get overlooked in the drive to coach and educate so that the ceremonies have full attendance and all involved sing from the same hymnbook. On top of that Agile is in its late teens and went through the trough of disillusionment, but has it reemerged and is it climbing the slope to reach plateau of productivity? In this talk I take the audience on a journey through the good, the less good and the not so handsome of agile development with the aim to distill the very important and proven aspects, from the less proven and more dogmatic ones. Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	It has come to my attention time and time again, that sometimes introduction of agile creates unnecessary tensions between the delivery teams and their agile-naive broadly understood clients. Everybody has few to plenty of stories and examples here. Through no fault of anybody, Agile, especially for those who make their living by spreading Agile knowledge and experience, but also for those who use it day in day out delivering software solutions, can become a source of bias. Recent talk by Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks at Agile Australia and positions taken by few other big names of Agile on social media resonate with this stance - let's be pragmatic, let's not forget the principles and the values. Ceremonies, toolkits and frameworks are there to help, not to dominate. I would like to take the audience on a journey through the body of evidence both as reported in media but also in scientific papers, in order to establish which claims hold, which are still to be proven, and which are to be dispelled. Max size: 5000 chars
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