Agile Evolution: Engineering Visionary Leadership

💚🔥🐲 Just wrapped up my talk on Tuesday at @AgileByExample, and I’m thrilled to share my slide deck with you all!

As leaders in tech, we’re shaping more than just code – we’re shaping the future. And with Gen Z and Millennials redefining what purpose-driven work looks like, there’s no better time to put humanity back into tech.

In the talk, I dug into a belief close to my heart: All engineers are artists. 🎨💻🐉 Just like an artist uses a canvas to express vision and emotion, engineers use technology to bring their creativity to life. It’s not just what we build; it’s why we build it that counts. And that’s where Agile comes in – not as a rigid process but as a path for creativity, connection, and purpose.

Agile is so much more than checklists and events. It’s about unleashing the power of our teams through every sprint planning, standup, and retrospective to create work that genuinely matters to our users and society. 💪🏿

But here’s the urgency – Gen Z and Millennials are demanding more. They want tech that aligns with holistic well-being, human-centric values, and social impact. If we don’t adapt now, we risk a future we’ve seen all too often in sci-fi – a graveyard of broken tech and soulless AI, robots tirelessly keeping the systems running in a world disconnected from humanity and creativity. 🦾🤖 A world full of old, ticking tech and abandoned systems, still churning away but devoid of any real purpose or joy.

❤️‍🔥 Let’s stop shielding our engineers from the business value and instead empower them to see the true impact of their work. That's where the real magic happens. That’s how we create tech with heart.

💎🐉 Check out my slides and share your thoughts – let’s start a movement to bring humanity back into tech, together!

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