XP User Group Meeting

Building a high trust culture in your software engineering organisation

Abstract

If the essence of agile development is rooted in high levels of trust, how do you set about creating a high trust culture? When so much of what you and your team may have experienced in their career is based in an assumption of low levels of trust - contract negotiation, audit, finger pointing and blame, how do you set about reversing that and building a high trust culture?

What is trust? How do you build trust between individuals and is it possible to build trust between teams and across organizations? What are the benefits of high levels of trust? And why it is essential if your agile and Lean organization is to be "built to last"?

David Anderson will present for the first time, his extensive research on trust and collaboration and map his learning with his own experience as a manager of software engineering departments using agile and Lean techniques over the last 8 years.

Speaker

• David J. Anderson