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Agile Adoption is Fool's Gold (and other Stories from the Coal Face)

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Summary

Rob Bowley shares lessons learned while doing Agile: Scrum is not that bad, Don’t call it Agile, Doing the right thing vs doing it right, Identify the change agents, Hire good people, etc.

Bio

Rob Bowley is Head of Development at 7digital Ltd, a digital media delivery company (primarily music) based in London. Rob played a pivotal role in the introduction of Agile at 7digital starting over 3 years ago and was also heavily involved in introducing Agile at his previous position at BBC Worldwide. He is Co-Programme Chair for spaconference.org. Tweeter: @robbowley. Blog: blog.robbowley.net

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

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Jun 28, 2012

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