Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Mark Twain was right but why is there so many people passionate about Agility and yet so unhappy applying it in the real world? In this talk, I will propose that a simple realignment of perspective can be a win-win for the agility champions and their organizations.

2. Make your framework work for
your organization
…
and not the other way around
Agile practitioners’ happiness through a change in perspective

3. • Errors in perceptions and prioritization can reduce your
job’s Match Quality
The unhappy agile practitioner
• Improving this may reduce frustration and even unnecessary
job-switching

4. • Founder/consultant at
MagineCafe
• CTO at Progitek
• Author of Rally-Point
Backlog
• 30 years in IT
Phillipe
Cantin

5. Be selective
Understand the now
Learn every day
Slow down

6. The dog that caught
the bus
• Not resolving
expectations
• …and not knowing
yourself

7. Be selective or be in the perfectly wrong
job
• Do you want to guide or
deliver?
• Beware of ‘It always worked
for me’
• Respect the ‘Musts’

8. Be part of the
team
• Say ‘we’ instead of ‘you’

9. Understand the now to adapt your voice
and approach
• Understand “who’s your team”
• Use steelmanning
• “Go with their definitions”

10. Attend the classes of
other experts

11. Learn every day
from the chaos around you
• Be a student
• It’s hard for you or hard for them
• Careful about “It always worked
for me”

12. The crisis of
confidence
• Avoid losing momentum
• Be ready to pivot
fast
• Deep breath. Put it

13. Slow down the now
to manage the pace of change
• Prioritize moral over
change
• Applaud the efforts not
the results
• Start at chapter one
• Maintain your Match
Quality

14. Be selective
Understand the
now
Learn every day
Slow down
…then apply a

15. Thank you!
MagineCafe.co
phillipe.cantin@maginecaf
e.com
linkedin.com/in/phillipec
antin/