Flowcon 2022
In the last few years I helped a multinational manufacturing company to adopt Agile at different levels and in different functions of the organization.
The company is very much into Lean, so it was a great opportunity for them and for me to learn from each other. Not just about the mere practices, but first and foremost about the respective culture and mindset.
For me, it was like circling back from how we created physical products in the ’60s (Lean), to how we created immaterial products in the ’90s (Agile for software), to how we scaled that up to multiple teams, and finally back to the need, in our times, to constantly innovate both HW and SW products.
In this session I’d like to share some of the practical insights I gained from this experience, and a few patterns that can be useful in other situations.
We’ll talk about how to promote Agile at the organizational level so that the concepts of Flow, Product and Tech can be applied regardless of the kind of industry you work in. But we’ll not forget about the specific contexts, of course.