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Get a sneak peek of who you can expect to meet and learn from at Agile Silicon Valley this February!

McKinsey & Company and Scrum.org conducted a joint study exploring the values and traits that make agile teams successful, helping to guide companies with concepts and ways to better recruit and coach their teams. The study looks at the personality traits and work values in two crucial roles for agile teams: The Product Owner and the Team Member, and subsequently covers effective methods of further developing a team’s agility.

Ahead of Agile for Automotive, we sat down with two of our keynote speakers, Dave West and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss:

• The history of agility in the context of the automotive industry
• How Toyota Connected revolutionized the standard for enhancing and developing agility in lean product development
• What the new automotive 'agile' operating model looks like
• Top objectives/priorities for Scrum.org and Toyota Connected in 2019
• Why you cannot afford to miss their upcoming presentation
• And much more!

In 2001, 17 software practitioners met to discuss several different methodologies for programming. Out of this meeting came the Agile Manifesto, a new methodology for software development which challenged the idea of traditional sequential development.

Agile methods can be utilized by OEMs to increase the frequency of delivery, to instill an environment of iterative product development, and to act quickly to meet customers needs based on their feedback. To learn more about the agile manifesto, download this exclusive content piece.  

DevOps is short for Development and Operations. It is based on the principles of LEAN and Agile. Although there is much speculation about how to successfully deploy DevOps, do not make a mistake and ignore it. It is the future of IT. 

There are many different ways to transition to agile, and each organization must choose the right format, the right leaders, and the right methods to suit their contextual business. If agile methods are to be truly accepted at any organization, the four Cs: Change, Culture, Communication, and Cost, will be critical to its success.

Download the slides for Stack Overflow and Alex Miller's session: Leveraging Your Knowledge Communities To Lead Digital Transformation.