Are there easier and faster ways to become agile than beginning with the roles and rituals of Scrum? Yes there are! Back in the 1990s, a small collection of lightweight software development methods emerged to help us achieve important outcomes faster than Waterfall-based approaches. These early frameworks and methods, including Scrum and Extreme Programming, incorporated the best thinking of the day on how to be agile. Some of the wisdom in these methods is timeless while some of the practices and roles are now outdated. Modern Agile practitioners use streamlined, simplified approaches influenced by Lean Manufacturing principles, experiments by veteran Agile/Lean practitioners and ideas from organizations that discovered how to move with quick easy grace in order to compete with bigger players. Today's modern alternatives to first generation agile ideas are a far better place to start than Scrum. In this talk, we'll explore what these new approaches are, when they are a good fit and how they compare to traditional agile methods.
CEO and Founder, Industrial Logic
Joshua is the founder and CEO of Industrial Logic, a pioneering Extreme Programming/Lean consultancy that radically improves the software development capabilities of organizations around the globe. In the mid-1990s, Joshua was among a small community of “lightweight methods” practitioners experimenting with better ways of developing software. Since then, he’s helped thousands of people across hundreds of organizations learn better ways of making software, carefully reviewing and revising methods with the greatest impact and return on investment. Today, he leads an effort to modernize Agile by removing outdated practices and leveraging the best of what the software community and other industries have learned about achieving awesome results. Joshua is an international speaker and author of the best-selling, Jolt Cola-award-winning book, Refactoring to Patterns, numerous Agile eLearning courses, and popular articles like Anzeneering, Sufficient Design and Stop Using Story Points. He’s active on Twitter, Snapchat and the emerging ModernAgile.org community.