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Selling Agile Within Your Organization

Are you excited by the potential of agile software development, but find that your colleagues are a bit reticent? Is your whole team ready to dive in, but your business partner is only interested in dipping in a toe—if that? Are you struggling as a project manager, wishing for the right way to help your management see that agile is the way to go? Are you a manager, wishing for the words that will help your teams feel more confident about trying agile? Or maybe you’re wishing you could find a way to convince your clients that there’s a better way to contract for a software development job—without having to do a full-blown detailed design spec up front.

This presentation will look at all of these questions surrounding how to best sell agile in your organization. We’ll focus first on the general idea of a sales pitch, including what to do and what not to do. Then we’ll look at selling agile to the team, to management, to the customer, and to others in your organization. We’ll wrap up with a pointed look at not selling, and instead focus on finding other ways to promote and share agile.

Michele Sliger is the co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility. She has extensive experience in agile software development, having transitioned to Scrum and XP practices in 2000 after starting her career following the traditional waterfall approach. A self-described “bridge builder,” her passion lies in helping those in traditional software development environments cross the bridge to agility. Michele is the owner of Sliger Consulting Inc., where she consults with businesses ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, helping teams with their agile adoption, and helping organizations prepare for the changes that agile adoption brings. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). She has an undergraduate MIS degree and an MBA. You can download her articles by visiting her website at www.sligerconsulting.com or contact her directly at michele@sligerconsulting.com.

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Publisher:	VersionOne	Published:	09/28/2009	Type: Length: Format:	Video minutes
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Topics:	Tools & Methods Project Mgmt. Agile