Deema Dajani & Shannon Mason on the Women in Agile community and Supporting Women in Technology

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deema Dajani (Advisor Transformation Consulting) & Shannon Mason (VP Product Management, Agile Central) of CA Technologies about the Women in Agile organisation, their own experiences as women in the technology industry and ways to support and increase diversity in organisations.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Women in Agile is an incorporated not for profit focused on supporting, enabling an empowering women and allies in the agile community
- The unconscious bias that comes in to so many aspects of work, particularly as it impacts recruitment
- There is data which shows that the more diverse a team is, the better the solutions they come up with are
- The need to coach and support women candidates for promotions and new roles to encourage them to overcome their own self-evaluation, which is often more judgemental than it should be
- There are pools of qualified people with diverse backgrounds not just a few isolated individuals – helping ensure that the ratios in our organisations match the ratios in society

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