Coaching Large Company Agile Transitions

Today, many larger companies are taking notice of agile practices, starting agile transition programs, or testing the water with pilot projects. Unfortunately, the realities of inter-team dependencies, ingrained cultural issues, and human nature quickly get in the way and threaten progress. Multi-team development environments can foster excessive standardization, gaps in dependency management, and vague reporting structures. Fortunately, good agile coaching can help you avoid many of the issues and mitigate others. Through first-person stories and from eyewitness accounts of fellow agile coaches, Rob Myers shares the warning signs of these threats and provides recommendations for avoiding them. Learn to identify and engage hidden stakeholders before they become unwitting constraints or worse. Discover how to organize and empower a team of agile coaches who will breed trust during your agile roll-out. Explore the pros and cons of pilot programs, the gradual migrations, and big bang roll-outs.