Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Diana Larsen about the evolution of the Agile Fluency model, the rate of adoption of new ideas in organisations, organisation design and being an ally. Why listen to this podcast: • The ideas around agile fluency have evolved through feedback and use in the field • New ideas take time to be adopted in organisations and agile is far from prevalent • Agile ways of working will become “the way we do things” but it will take time • There is a diagnostic instrument which allows teams to undertake self-reflection and explore areas they want to improve • The organisation design community have a lot of knowledge about things that the agile community can learn from • Diversity and inclusiveness are still issues in the agile and broader IT community, but things are improving • The single most powerful tool to combat racism/sexism and help diversity and inclusion grow is the action of bystanders More on