Has your company started asking your business unit to adopt Agile practices? Are you working with a technology team or organization and want to better understand Agile process or lingo? Are you just starting out in your Technology career and want to understand Agile a little better?

Even though Agile has been around for 20 years, there are still many reasons people are just now coming to it. Attend this session to get a basic understanding of the mindset and history of Agile as well as why and when you or your organization may want to use it.

Basics Learning outcomes:
Understand the Values and Principles intrinsic to BEING Agile
Discuss the practices that help people, teams, and organizations DO Agile
Evaluate when and why you might use Agile

Beyond the basics, this session will allow attendees to determine what other concepts they might want to investigate including but not limited to:

An overview of Scrum
An overview of Kanban
The Cost of Context Shifting
How to Estimate and Size
Why Batch Size matters to Flow
Any other question you may be curious about

This event can be run as a talk (1-2 hours) or a workshop (up to 8 hours)