This is a story about one major project and the people contributing to it. The means of adoption, the high amount of communication and the feelings involved in adoption will be presented. The main offering of this talk are the experiences, instructions and small hints. These will help you on your own journey.

Agile adoption is all about change. Change is always hard. Agile adoption is a big change which makes it more than hard, it’s painful. However the change can be softened by many means: knowledge, coaching, facilitation, stories, giving options, addressing fears. This workshop is all about treating the agile adoption pain.

Agile development requires trust, but will also create trust. Agile is a positive trust spiral. Non-agile development is based on distrust, and will create distrust. Agile development cannot happen until all stakeholders have turned the trust spiral around. In this workshop we will explore techniques to initiate trust in a not yet agile organisation. Using ideas from appreciative inquiry, we identify situations that initiated trust in us. We discuss the prerequisites, properties and results of the techniques used. Then we explore other situations where the techniques also could be applied.