Michael Toppa gave a presentation on the promise and perils of Agile and Lean practices. He discussed how adopting these practices can help address common project problems like unrealistic expectations that compromise quality, multitasking that reduces productivity, and lack of feedback that leads to building the wrong products. However, going all-in with Agile through methods like Scrum requires major changes all at once, while adopting Lean through Kanban allows for more incremental evolution. Successful implementations inspect and adapt processes, rather than relying on superficial or misapplied changes.