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Future of Agile Practices in an Organization with Jon Kern

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In our recent interview, we have featured Jon Kern (Co-Author, Agile Manifesto). He shares his experiences and the reason behind being a contributor of Agile Manifesto. He shared his understanding of the 4 values shared by 17 people in the Agile Manifesto.

He mentions 17 people coming together itself is an opportunity and is Agile. He answered our questions on what is Fake Agile, Misconceptions and the Future of Agile practices. He says learning and unlearning is the key for being Agile. He highlights the significance of Plan, Do, Inspect and Adapt. When we spoke about high performing teams in organizations, he said meeting customer expectations and values makes a company more successful. He also spoke on different aspects of Agile.

Interviewee: Jon Kern (Co-Author of Agile Manifesto)

Jon, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is passionate about helping clients succeed in delivering business value through software. He works with (typically distributed) teams to articulate, design, architect, and deliver software that solves challenging business problems. Jon has a significant impact on the projects he works on. Projects routinely see high-quality solutions in less time, and leave the local team mentored on object-oriented and agile techniques, and excited. (Often more valuable than the technical improvements).

Jon also enjoys speaking and evangelizing about being agile at conferences around the world. Jon seeks better ways for teams to accomplish their goals from the perspectives of people, process, and technology. Jon likes to help teams build an environment that enables effective practices, solid architecture, agile development, quality-by-design (not accident), and laser-like focus on delivering business value through the strategic use of s/w development.

Specialties: agile development, agile coach, domain modeling, architectural solutions that meet business needs, leading distributed teams, highly varied domain expertise, leadership by example.

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

Why is Change and Communication Important in a Team? with Jutta Eckstein

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Communication is a key in our day-to-day life, be it professionally or personally, there is always a need to maintain a healthy and open- minded communication with people around you. Communication is an art which brings two individuals closer in the long run while also enabling them to understand each other’s thoughts easily. In our discussion with Jutta Eckstein, we started exploring the significance of communication in teams or organizations. We discussed different aspects of conflicts in communication and using retrospectives for organizational changes.

She brings in her unique experiences about working in teams and how we can address the changes. She also shared her opinion on Retrospective in Agile Processes. We covered initial steps of change which are learning from the situations and decisions to be taken as a team according to Individual experiences. Thus drives us towards organizational change. We also discussed the influence of the environment around us. She briefed us on VUCA conditions(Volatile, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) for organizations and also on sustainability.

Interviewee: Jutta Eckstein(Coach, Consultant, Speaker and Author)

Jutta Eckstein works as an Independent Coach, Consultant and Trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. She holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. in Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.

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