In Action With Wendy

Ilio is the Executive Director of Agile at Kaplan Test Prep. with about 10 years agile experience.  Five years ago, Kaplan was almost entirely waterfall. Over the course of two years, he introduced agile in some pilot projects with good outcomes. These proved the case for an organization wide roll out. To date, all 12 development teams work in agile. Several non-development teams do as well - 8 total including marketing, publishing, and content. Wendy's Notes From Interview After first year of rollouts across development teams, non-tech teams started agile adoption. Introduction of agile to complete autonomy varies depending on size and culture of team. Average 3 months non-software teams. “Processes are meant to serve you and not control you.”  Identify problems and baseline to improve before adoption and measure improvements as a result.  Use of surveys to measure more subtle points such as trust and happiness. Working with team gives the best sense — watching communication, collaboration, etc.  Most impor