Ardi learned Agile & fell in love with products working with small teams in a startup and a 3D product company. After this, she became an Agile coach, exploring agile in government, through consulting assignments and in large financial services. She has impacted many in the Toronto area as a community leader, supporting and running meetups.
For Ardi, Agile is like bamboo - a living organism, flexible and strong. It's sustainable and green. It grows and evolves. In her agility narrative, the protagonist is the organization that needs to fully adopt agile. She sees herself as an advisor helping this happen, understanding how hard structural change is, especially when it involves adapting governance.
The theme of the narrative is continuous delivery with sustainability and a strong focus on customer. She reminds us to know frameworks but apply as it makes sense. To learn from challengers. And to take the opportunity with agile as survival, and/or growth could be at stake.
For leaders and coaches, she calls for more courage to do what it is right and consider the human side to increase employee engagement.