Duration: 60 minutes
Agile methods are people-oriented but, in the speaker's opinion, they just touch the surface of people dynamics. They do provide a framework in which constructive interactions among all team members and stakeholders may happen, but no Agile method cannot per se guarantee those behaviors, because the successful adoption of an Agile method is also determined by deep people dynamics.
In this talk we'll look at some of those dynamics as defined by Organizational Systemic, a fairly new humanistic approach not to be confused with the theory of complex systems.
We'll see how a better understanding of the team's deep dynamics may be practically applied to improve the effectiveness of your Agile process and the efficiency of your team, and may also be one more criteria to choose the Agile method that better fits your organization.
This is an advanced talk which is all about people rather than technology. It's aimed primarily at team leaders and managers. Its goal is to present some advanced concepts about deep relational dynamics that influence the success of a project.
Who's already involved in an Agile/Lean projects will get new insights and practical advice on how to make people work better together; who's evaluating the transition to such methods will better understand the implications of this change.
The major topics we'll cover are: principles of Organizational Systemic; relational nature of the most common Agile methods; leadership levels.