I put together a quick 5 minute presentation yesterday for the NFJS 300 sessions and thought I’d share it online. I was pretty impressed how it turned out giving that I only spent 10 minutes putting it together and only thought of it half an hour before the 300 sessions. 
The main point I made was that if you want to succeed with agile (or at least do pretty good with it) I’d suggest using no tools as part of your adoption. Most companies scurry to some digital tool that only helps impede communication rather than aid communication. Even though some of the tools might be good and work well (I’ve used a few of them) I think they should be avoided in the early stages so that people can get used to the concept of “card as a placeholder for a conversation” and understand how to use a burn down and burn up chart versus having it generated for them.
I then just closed out the talk by stressing the importance of collaboration and team work. Pretty simple, but I hope effective.
