# The Truth About Agile - Melissa Boggs [EN]

Slides:
* Scrum Alliance
* "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimension" -Holmes
* Origins of the Agile Manifesto
* The Use of Agile over Time
* Our Changing World
* ” The pace of change has never been this fast…
and yet, it will never be this slow again “ - Trudeau
* Agile vs agile
* short phases of work vs quick movement
* practices & pinciples
* are we delivering high quality value on a regular basis?
* Agile Principles 1-12
* 1. Customer Satisfaction
* 2. Embrace Change
* 3. Deliver Value
* Example: 2-3 years for software to ship.
* 4. One Team.
* 5. Bidirectional Trust.
* 6. Human Contact.
* 7. Demonstrable Value.
* 8. Sustainable Pace.
* Bogg's favorite.
* 9. Craft Excellence.
* 10. Ruthless Prioritization
* "you aren't going to need it (YAGNI)""
* "Keep it simple"
* 11. Self Organization
* Allow people room to grow and self lead
* 12.Inspect. Adapt.
* People First
* Prioritizing people allows and invites them a seat at the table.
* "Figuring out how to build a sustainable creative culture ... is a full time job."" - Pixar
* The Truth
* It is a set of principles and rules to help not grow comfortable. To be transparent. To let the team grow and accept change.
* "Hope." - Leia Organa
* Q&A
* Is Agile only for IT? Anything that needs cross functional values. The principals are applicable across industries as long as there is human interfacing and working together.
* Which agile principal is for outside the software world? Agile is a framework that acts as a guide that can be applied as a tool to overcome most hurdles you are facing.
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