For all of its ubiquity, Agile is greatly misunderstood. Implementation failures are often pegged to lack of management commitment, lack of tooling, lack of whatever. Often, Agile and Scrum are conflated. Sometimes, Agile is reduced to simply "Not being waterfall." The fact is, Agile does have a precise definition: the values enumerated in Agile Manifesto. Whether how Agile is practiced is compatible with those values is another matter.

Agile is as much about how it came to be as what the Manifesto says it is. 17 industry leaders checked their egos at the door in February 2001, but managed to still bring healthy and spirited opinions to the floor. There are many contemporaneous accounts from that Snowbird meeting, some of which will be shared and discussed in this session.

In this session, attendees will be enabled with a fundamental understanding of Agile's egalitarian and social democratic roots. In addition, attendees will also be equipped with techniques on how to apply Agile within a host environment that is often not egalitarian and socially democratic.

Beginner session with no prior Agile experience necessary.