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Radu Davidescu

Radu is a dad, ex-lead vocals in a punk rock band, enthusiastic photographer, web specialist and Agile team architect. He worked for more than 10 years helping development teams to discover new ways of delivering quality software. For more than 3 years he was focused in doing this in an Agile way.

Getting deep understanding and practicing better Agile becomes his main goal. Leading and facilitating a natural growth of a group into powerful team becomes his great passion. For him, team architect is that special position that generates and sustain beautiful teams. It’s about understanding pillars, creating bondings and generate structures, all in the benefit of the people.

Topic: Agile Adoption Obstacles

Agile adoption is a though but rewarding journey. Change agents have a difficult task in facilitating these adoptions. Knowing Agile methodology and a lot of energy are great starting points. Understanding and being aware about potential obstacles it’s the next logical step.

This talk is about that Agile adoption obstacles that Radu faced in practice over the years, along with some humble advices. It’s not a success guarantee to do list, but is a good checklist that can be consulted when you facilitate an Agile adoption.