Strategic Agile Transformation with Karl Scotland

In a recent interview with us, we featured Karl Scotland. He is an Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services. He shared his wonderful journey on why he chose Agile as his preferred field of expertise. We discussed different ways of implementing Agile strategically. Karl shared his unique experiences and said all the organizations should look at Agile strategically which helps the Agile Transformation become easier.

He shared a few tips on strategic deployment for professionals. We also discussed the Cynefin framework briefly, its importance while practicing and challenges. He also highlighted his views on how the present and future of Agile is going to be.

Interviewee: Karl Scotland, Agile Transformation Services Practice Manager at TEKsystems Global Services.

Karl Scotland helps businesses become Learning Organizations. Over the last 20 years he has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL, Legal & General and Alegis. During this time, he has been a pioneer of using Kanban Systems and Strategy Deployment for product development, a founding member of both the Lean Systems Society and Limited WIP Society, as well as being active in the community and a regular conference speaker. As a result he was awarded the honorary Brickell Key Community Contribution Award at the 2013 Lean Kanban North America conference.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)