Necmettin Özkan
Necmettin Özkan has first-hand professional experience in IT quality, process and performance management, Agile Software Development, and agility. Among the frameworks, he closely works with ITIL, COBIT, Scrum, and Kanban. Necmettin is passionate about contributing to the body of knowledge by sharing through public speaking, organizing events, as a lecturer at universities, mentor and reviewer for international journals and conferences, and with academic publications. He is working toward his Ph.D. degree at Gebze Technical University and as the IT Quality Team Leader in a bank. His research interests include agile software development and agility.
Title of presentation: From Agile to Agility.
The Agile Software Development movement emerged from practice just like most of the works in Agile evolved through practice. Thus, the creators and consultants of the Agile world may evangelize it with commercial concerns, resulting in “selling agility” to organizations as an object in the form of packaged practices (of methods/models/frameworks). Owing to the “sold practices” by the market and misleading misconceptions in the minds of the creators of Agile, there are certain issues in Agile like regarding it as a “holy” product and solution for (almost) everything, binary thinking, neglected trade-offs, and determinism. Those issues do not support agility in a sense and even inhibit it, which ultimately leads to the end of Agile™. This talk handles and discusses these prominent misconceptions and makes a prediction about the possible course of Agile™ and the rise of agility.
TeleSoftas Track (Hall – 5.2)
From Agile to Agility
The Agile Software Development movement emerged from practice just like most of the works in Agile evolved through practice. Thus, the creators and consultants of the Agile world may evangelize it with commercial concerns, resulting in “selling agility” to organizations as an object in the form of packaged practices (of methods/models/frameworks). Owing to the “sold practices” by the market and misleading misconceptions in the minds of the creators of Agile, there are certain issues in Agile like regarding it as a “holy” product and solution for (almost) everything, binary thinking, neglected trade-offs, and determinism. Those issues do not support agility in a sense and even inhibit it, which ultimately leads to the end of Agile™. This talk handles and discusses these prominent misconceptions and makes a prediction about the possible course of Agile™ and the rise of agility.