Category: Video Interview

Leaders are born or leadership can be learned is something we discussed at the beginning of our interview with Mark Lines. He says people grow into leadership with experience. He also highlights what is Disciplined Agile and why should people care about it.

Interviewee: Mark Lines (Co-creator of the Disciplined Agile framework)

Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is an Agile Coach and co-creator of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework. Mark is co-author with Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. Mark is a “disciplined” agile coach, helping organizations all over the world transform from traditional to agile methods. He writes for many publications including the Cutter Consortium and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Mark is also a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined Agile.

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

Scott Ambler is the Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile, Inc. He works with organizations around the world to help them to adopt agile and lean strategies across the enterprise. We started off our discussion by understanding how can we approach innovation effectively to succeed in today’s world. He says innovation varies organisation to organisation. One can drive innovation by understanding what customers want and how you can delight them.

In order to manage change in an optimal way, Scott says just assume change will happen and embrace this fact. Don’t get invested in your ideas and strategies, since you need to constantly shift with it.

Interviewee: Scott W. Ambler (Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile, Inc)

Scott is the Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile, Inc. He works with organizations around the world to help them to adopt agile and lean strategies across the enterprise. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level. Scott is the (co)-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework as well as the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to the Disciplined Agile Framework, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3 rd Edition.

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