program selection system

In 1996, Landmark Graphics was a company that had grown from a startup 10 years prior into a leading provider of software applications in oil and gas exploration. The growth via acquisition had resulted in a collection of corporate cultures separated by prior organization, geography, product line and business domain. The visionary leadership realized that the best way to create integrated solutions was by integrating the people. This example of leading collaboration has paid off through increased profitability and market share.

We all experience pressure to compromise our work and our reasonable care for others. As software becomes more beneficial, more pervasive, and inter-connected, our potential to harm grows.

Agile practices make a contribution to ethical practice but we can and should be doing more to help each other navigate the ethical dilemmas we face.

This open space session will frame professional ethics in context with agile values and engage participants in a conversation about how our day-to-day actions affect our employers, customers, peers, end users, and society.

Now that Agile has crossed Moore’s technology adoption chasm we’re finding that we need to address many of the scaling issues that we’ve mostly ignored until now. There is more to scaling agile than addressing the need of large or distributed teams. This presentation overviews the challenges and issues which the agile community must address in order to scale agile techniques and philosophies to meet the needs of modern organizations. Experiences and potential solutions from within IBM and several customers will be discussed, including both what works and what doesn’t.