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Thru conference and gathering participation, several companies who have been practicing Agile for a number of years discovered that most of the topics or discussions were not addressing the difficult issues facing larger organizations - i.e. performance management, distributed and offshore teams, Agile portfolio management, etc. Two separate Enterprise Agile discussions amongst the leaders of companies with large development teams and similar experience implementing Agile have been held. This session will review some of the lessons learned as well as introduce you to the Enterprise Agile Consortium model.

Examples of these companies are: Capital One, JDA Software, Red Hat, Legg Mason, Sabre, Ultimate Software, Farm Credit Services of America, NPR, and Carlson Wagon-lit. The event went off very well and was extremely valuable to the companies that attended.

The notes, discussions, and information exchanged was of great value to the companies. It was so valuable that a 2nd event occurred in March 2008 hosted by JDA Software in Scottsdale, AZ.

This session would be for other companies to come hear from experienced practitioners who have implemented Agile broadly across their organizations and what lessons can be learned from their experiences. Having a number of years of experience has caused us all to challenge some pre-disposed beliefs about what works, what doesn’t work, why the book isn’t always right, etc.

This session will also provide other interested companies information on how they can get involved in the Enterprise Agile Consortium (EAC) and the benefit they might expect.