Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture

According to Michael Gale, author of The Digital Helix: Transforming Your Organization’s DNA to Thrive in the Digital Age, 84% of digital transformations fail.1 Trying to understand why the other 16% succeed, he found that success required a “fundamental shift in how people had to think about how they interact, how they collaborate and work, and if

As we’re about to illustrate in the following sections, the early proponents in each movement implicitly espoused two fundamental values, transparency and curiosity, which led them to advocate methods that developed some or all of our five key attributes of successful software teams: high trust, low fear, understanding why, making commitments, and

This set of principles remains a useful touchpoint for organizations who aim for agility.

The problem—and the reason for this book—is that during the explosion of Agile development, and then of Lean software and DevOps, later adopters missed the importance of human interaction.

By delivering software frequently, the Agile team provides the customer a transparent view of their progress, and the team is curious about what the customer would value next, even if it means upsetting their plans.