What Agile got right about people — and what it missed

You follow the ceremonies, run the sprints, hold the retros, and still something feels off.

Valentyna Romanchenko, Senior PM and ICF coaching practitioner, works daily with clients to improve processes, and this experience led her to dive deeper into human nature through coaching. In this talk, she explores why Agile sometimes fails, not because of the process, but because of us. Understanding human fears and constraints is the first step to building teams that actually move forward.

This talk is for anyone who has worked within Agile frameworks and felt the gap between what the methodology promises and what actually happens in teams. Whether you're an engineer, team lead, or PM — if you've ever wondered why smart, motivated people still get stuck, this is for you.

What you will get:

• A new perspective on your team
• Understanding why teams get stuck
• The human side of Agile