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Mark van Harlingen, CSM, SAFe Agilist at Rally Software

Mark van Harlingen

Biography: Mark van Harlingen

Is a senior solution consultant for Rally Software. Mark is specialized in scaling agile with a passion for bringing theory into practice. In his current role he is supporting organizations going through their agile transformation.

Prior to joining Rally Software, Mark spent more than 8 years in the Project & Portfolio Management domain, serving the fortune 2000 companies across the world, advising on PPM best practices; aligning IT with strategy and balancing demand & supply.

Presentation: 10 Failure Modes of Agile Adoption

Track: Solutions Track Thursday / Time: Thursday 15:50 - 16:40 / Location: Keurzaal

How we adopt agile is what matters! Many organisations tend to look at agile from a process perspective, rush into the journey and are suddenly faced with challenges in agile adoption. In this session you can learn how to avoid the pitfalls of agile implementations to reduce the risk of failure. These failure modes are based on Rally’s real customer experiences in hundreds of Agile adoptions world-wide. Enjoy this fast paced and energetic session to understand what to think about your adoption regardless of where you are at your Agile transformation journey with:

  • Understand the impact of facilitation to enable collaboration amongst Agile teams.
  • How insights can help you with continuous improvements.
  • To create that environment that supports innovation and creative thinking.