Regain Benefits from Agile Software Development
Jutta Eckstein
16:00-16:45, Tuesday, 1st April 2025
All too often, Agile (or Scrum or SAFe) feels more like being restricted by rules that are in our way to productivity. It has not been designed that way. Just the opposite, it has always meant to keep obstacles out of the way, in order to get more productive in development.
What causes the current problems and what can we do to get productivity back? Based on my own experience, in this session, I'll point out current problems, and misunderstandings, and how to overcome all of these to make Agile support and not hinder our work.
Jutta Eckstein
Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has recently co-created an assessment for (agile) teams to gauge the environmental, social, and economic impact of their products and services. Besides that, she has published her experience in various books, having pair-written the most recent one with John Buck on Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova).
Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board from 2003-2007) and has recently founded the “Agile Sustainability Initiative” which aims at increasing the awareness of the Agile community’s possibilities to make a difference. She’s a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has presented her work. She holds an M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.