During QCon San Francisco 2008, InfoQ and BayAPLN, a local group of Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), organized a panel comprised of Agile experts which answered questions from the audience. The panelists were: David Chilcott, Moderator, Polyanna Pixton, David Hussman, Sue Mckinney, Pat Reed.
Watch: BayAPLN Agile Expert Panel (56 min.)
The members of the BayAPLN Agile Expert Panel were:
- David Chilcott, Lead Agile Evangelist at Outformations, Co-founder of APLN. Moderator.
- Polyanna Pixton, CIO at Swiss Stock Exchange, Trust based teams, VP of APLN.
- David Hussman, DevJam
- Sue Mckinney, Development Transformational Activities at IBM
- Pat Reed, Senior Director at Gap Inc.
The panelists answered the following questions coming from the audience:
- What are the top challenges to the adoption of Agile at enterprise level and the most effective ways to resolve that problem?
- How do we build trust?
- What can we do related to the perception that Agile and design or user experience don’t mix well?
- How do we quantify the financial benefit of an organization that wants to become agile?
- Should Agile be presented differently in different countries/cultures?
- What is the importance of coaching for Agile adoption and success?
- Why are we gravitating towards simplicity?
- How do you know how much to teach?
- What if leadership doesn't realize they have an issue?
- What about the tendency to stay within the Agile culture and increasing the awareness of the current culture?
- What can we do if the team’s velocity is measured and they want to raise it ending up delivering low quality features?
- Are iterations merely training wheels?
- How do you see Agile in 2009?
