A Manager’s Guide to Supporting Agile Transformation

Year after year, Version One’s State of Agile survey reports that a top-three barrier to agile adoption inside organizations is “inadequate management support and sponsorship”. What is behind this reported conflict between management and agile adoption? And what can we as managers do to get past the supposed misalignment between managing teams and practicing agile? 

In this session, we explore the roots of the management discipline as we know it today. We pinpoint the potential areas of conflict between agile values and traditional management. Then we turn that upside-down and look for areas where managers can support and drive forward the organizational adoption of agile leveraging the Disciplined Agile tool kit.