InfoQ Interview with Mike Cottmeyer – Agile Adoption and Transformation
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InfoQ Interview with Mike Cottmeyer – Agile Adoption and Transformation
This got published today… here is a link to the interview:
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Mike-Cottmeyer-Agile-Adoption-Transformation
Take a look and tell me what you think. Here is just a little more about the talk:
Summary
In Agile, adoption and transformation are typically viewed as one big event. Mike Cottmeyer provides a holistic perspective that looks as adoption as the implementation of practices, and transformation along two dimensions, organizational and personal. Mike discusses how they are a means to an end, and how to avoid the trap of focusing on practice adoption as a goal.Bio
Mike Cottmeyer is a PMP Project Manager, an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and a Certified ScrumMaster. As an Agile Coach Mike provides mixed-methodology Agile Training, Agile Coaching, and Enterprise Agile Transformation Services designed to help pragmatically, incrementally, and safely introduce Agile methods into any sized organization.About the conference
The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.
Comments (3)
Michael Sahota
Mike, thanks for sharing this. It’s the first time I got to hear your whole message and I think that you have served the community well in starting to unravel the threads of adoption and transformation so that we can clearly see what we are doing with organizations.