Take 30 seconds and write down all of the “Agile” P-words that you can come up with. How did you do? Product? Planning? Prioritization? Now take a minute and think about what your favourite Agile framework has to say about these terms. In this talk we’ll explore how most of that framework guidance is at best deficient and at worst, well, misguided. We’ll also discuss the one thing that matters most to be successful at those Agile P’s. Hint: that work word begins with the letter “Q”.
Daniel Vacanti is a software industry veteran who has spent most of his career focusing on Lean and Agile practices. In 2007, he helped to develop the Kanban as a strategy for knowledge work and managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year. He has been conducting Lean-Agile training, coaching, and consulting ever since. In 2011 he founded ActionableAgileTM which...