Beyond Agile: Cultural Patterns Cultural Patterns of Software Organizations

Summary

You need to work on both people and process to become successful and stay successful - people ad process are not opposites. If you want to see software teams and organizations differently, from a people oriented perspective, come to this session! We will present a fresh perspective on software organizations, focusing on subcultures and people's behavior.

We'll introduce different cultural patterns you can find in software organizations, based on Gerald M. Weinberg's work, and tell how to recognize them, what behavior to expect, and how they handle unexpected events and change. We will show the context in which these cultural patterns are effective and when they go awry. We will also show how different agile processes like Scrum, XP, and Lean Software Development fit in, while explaining some common agile failure modes. 

Bio
Willem van den Ende is a Dutch eXtreme Programming pioneer. Since 1999 he guides organisations in the introduction of agile software development as an all-hands person: coach, developer, and facilitator. Marc Evers works as an independent coach, trainer, and consultant in the field of (agile) software development and software processes (through his company Piecemeal Growth).

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.