(Fr)agile: How Agile Falls Apart, and What You Can Do to Hold It All Together

[SeanKilleen]

About You

Your Name: Sean Killeen

Twitter handle (optional): sjkilleen

The best way to reach out to you: E-mail (SeanKilleen@gmail.com)

A quick bio: Originally from the Philadelphia area, Sean has 15+ years of experience solving problems as an IT professional and developer for commercial, non-profit, and federal clients. He's currently the .NET Specialty Lead at Excella Consulting -- he highly recommends you check them out. He recently served on a modernization project that industry analysts called "more complex than the moon landing". He also servers as a co-trainer for Excella's Agile Testing & Automation and Agile Engineering courses. Aside from loving his work way too much, there's a good chance he's enjoying/stressing about being a new homeowner, sipping great beer, exploring the Arlington area, or singing somewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @sjkilleen or blogging not nearly often enough at SeanKilleen.com. He doesn't bite; say hi!

Your Talk

Title: (Fr)agile: How Agile Falls Apart, and What You Can Do to Hold It All Together

What your talk is about: Attempting to deliver a project and maintain an agile mindset at the same time can feel fraught with peril. Unforeseen circumstances, the challenges of working in team of actual human beings, and organizational inertia act like riptide currents, pulling you away from your delivery, your team’s commitment to agile principles, or both. All is not lost! In this talk, I’ll describe some symptoms of agile dysfunction and their antidotes. We’ll explore some lessons I’ve learned as a technical lead working with agile and “agile” teams, holding it together with duct tape and a little help from my friends.

How long will your talk be?

• 5-15 minutes (lightning talk)
• 20-30 minutes
• 30-45 minutes
• 60 minutes or more

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[SeanKilleen]

Still good here! Thanks Stalebot. 👍

[stale]

Hi there — thanks for submitting this talk! It’s been a year since the last activity — would you mind taking a look to see if you’re still interested in presenting about this topic, and if the talk’s content is still up-to-date?

If everything’s still good, just drop a comment here and I’ll pop back into hibernation like a good little robot.

If you’re no longer interested in giving this talk, or the talk is out-of-date, feel free to close this issue.

Should I not hear back in a week, I’ll close this issue so you needn’t feel guilty about it. ❤️

Thanks for your contribution to the tech community in DC!

[SeanKilleen]

Still good here! Thanks Stalebot. 👍