Steve Lennon hosted the next webinar in the #StrongerAgile series, titled ‘Spanning the rift: Advice for waterfall organisations running Agile projects’.

The full audio of the session:

Topics covered included:

• The role of culture and behaviour in transitioning to Agile
• The importance of business engagement in Agile teams
• Training and coaching for a new team - including pair programming, test-driven development, test automation and continuous integration
• The traditional Project Manager role in waterfall organisations vs. the Scrum Master role in Agile teams
• Empowering teams and challenging the status quo
• Focus on continuous improvement - inspect and adapt
• What follows after an initial pilot project
• Agile skeptics – some pointers for how to bring them along on the journey

Amongst the insights shared were:

It's really important to realise it's the behavioural cuture we're trying to change #WaterfallToAgile

— Unboxed Consulting (@Ubxd) February 25, 2015

Showing, rather than telling, is a really powerful tool #WaterfallToAgile

— Unboxed Consulting (@Ubxd) February 25, 2015

Right at the start in an #agile project, you're delivering working software #WaterfallToAgile

— Unboxed Consulting (@Ubxd) February 25, 2015

A good Scrum Master is someone who can take the team on a journey #WaterfallToAgile

— Unboxed Consulting (@Ubxd) February 25, 2015

One of the worst things you can hear a constant mantra of "that's how it is" #WaterfallToAgile

— Unboxed Consulting (@Ubxd) February 25, 2015

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