{"id":21820,"date":"2014-11-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/you-win-people-look-back-lean-agile\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:00:00","slug":"you-win-people-look-back-lean-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/you-win-people-look-back-lean-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"You win with people: A look back at Lean Into Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As people entered the Fawcett Center on campus of The Ohio State University for the inaugural Lean Into Agile conference, a wall-sized picture of legendary Buckeye football coach Woody Hayes greeted us. The quote, left, could not have been better foreshadowing for the theme of the day.<\/p>\n

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Michael Sahota used his opening keynote to break down the Agile Manifesto to a single phrase, Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, then further boiled it down to a single word: “PEOPLE”. As a former tool administrator who loves using tools to solve problems, hearing the phrase “people over process and tools” always gives me a bit of anxiety. Still, I listened intently to the Agile community as they presented their case.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of talk and consensus on the challenges of Agile. This always led to collaborative discussions about how certain elements of Lean and Agile can be leveraged to deliver better software. What resonated with me, however, was the candor around two themes:<\/p>\n

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