Expert 4 – Lyssa Adkins

Lyssa Adkins is an Agile and professional coach, facilitator, teacher, and inspirer. Her current focus is on improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, and helping leaders take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to make…this is where Lyssa thrives and helps others to thrive.

I would be interested in hearing your take on the whole philosophical shift from requirements to user stories, why that was so important, and the impact of user stories.

I think of Agile practices as patterns that interrupt unconscious learned behavior. I have a deep familiarity with project requirements from my 15 years of experience as a project manager and a project management office lead. During this time, I was often...