Welcome back to Southern Connecticut Agile! For our November meetup, Esther Derby and Matthew Carlson presented There Are No More Early Adopters of Agile.
About the presentation:
After 20 years, Agile has in a sense become pervasive. While it’s neither mandated nor regulated, everyone’s heard of it, and lots of organizations understand the legitimacy it confers. Still, some folks continue to approach changing to Agile as though it were a brand new set of ideas. How’s that working out? Join Esther and Matthew in a conversation about what motivated early Agile adopters, what’s different now, and how we can more effectively bring about the changes we seek.
Comments from participants include “One of the best online sessions I have participated in at least this whole year” and “Best talk of any sort I’ve been to (online or otherwise) in a very long time.”
Papers, talks, books, videos, and blog posts mentioned along the way:
- Crossing the Chasm, Moore 2014 (popularization of work by Rogers)
- Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony, Meyer and Rowan 1977
- Scrum Guide, Schwaber and Sutherland 2020
- Story Points Revisited, Jeffries 2019
- Software Estimation Without Guessing, Dinwiddie 2019
- What’s the Story About Agile Data, Magennis 2018
- Managing the Development of Large Software Systems, Royce 1970
- Total Quality Management, Wikipedia
- Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption, Westphal, Gulati, Shortell 1997
- Matthew’s stash of Institutional Theory papers