Adopting Agile: How to Avoid the Top 10 Pitfalls

According to the 2011 IT project success rate survey, roughly 60% of the Agile projects are successful. What can you do to make sure that your project is not one of the 40%? Bal Mahale will illuminate on paradoxes of Agile that he has discovered while coaching large, global teams as they adopted Agile.

• It is a simple methodology that is hard to adopt.
• It is extreme discipline combined with extreme flexibility.
• It is top down and bottom up.
• It provides freedom for local teams while maintaining global control.

Bal Mahale, is an Agile Coach and a senior director at CA Technologies. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP). He has mentored over 20 large global teams (in India, China, Australia, Israel and Prague) to transition to Agile. Recently he also evangelized and launched a program to groom new coaches. Bal has over 25 years of experience in managing software development. In addition to project management, he has a passion for marketing, strategy, and innovation. Prior to CA, he worked at Workscape as Director of product development, and at Razorfish as Client Partner. Bal is on the board for our Central Mass Chapter as director of Marketing. He is also the partnership chair for the MIT CIO symposium. He has an MBA from Babson and MS from IIT, Madras, India.