 So this talk is going to be a little bit different from the ones you'll probably hear I'm not going to talk about the technology I'm not going to talk about agile practices or processors or I'm not even going to mention the manifesto that much This talk is more about how other business functions work. We're all Here's a quick call of hands who here works in it in some fashion Yep, most of you that's pretty much what I expected So this talk is not going to be about it. This talk is going to be about everyone else who's not it and how you can actually work with them to Convince them and help them help you become agile agile an IT division is Not self-contained. It might be a silo. It might be a matrix organization, but you have interfaces to Finance to HR to sales and marketing to all the other different divisions and functions across the organization So we're going to talk about is how we're going to align across the organization so that you can be successful so Let's actually have a quick little bit of a question and answer here What where is your problem? Where is your pain point in your organization when you're trying to be agile? HR HR which HR policies KPIs Performance metrics. Yep. Where else roles and responsibilities. Okay. Yeah job descriptions position descriptions Who's the business? marketing sales very good, so That's a fair misconception. It happens quite often agile isn't faster agile is sooner And it's not necessarily cheaper. No So we'll talk about most of these things and I'll make specific attention to call out some of the HR issues and some of the sales and marketing issues So just for those of you who don't me. My name is Evan Laborn. I'm currently based in Singapore. Though my I was grew up in Melbourne, Australia and Sydney, Australia for the last 36 odd years. So How's the cricket going? Not not not well for you or not well for me Beautiful all right good to hear Alright, so let's actually start with the core principle of why you're in business Here's another show of hands. Think of your company's outcomes