What is your one burning agile question for 2012?

Our PW&WCBA agile summit covers a wide range of topics each year. So now we're asking: What is your one burning agile question for 2012?

This year's summit - titled "Transitioning Practices for Agile Delivery" will include the following sessions:

Chairperson Welcome Address, Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, Inc.
Can You Hear Me Now?, Robert Woods, IT Project Manager, Health Dialog Services Corporation
Agile Adoption & Governance for an Evolving Global PMO, Gopal Renganathan, MS, MBA, PMP, Senior Manager, PMO, Cisco
Collaborate for Value: Using Facilitated Sessions to Discover and Deliver Product Needs, Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, Inc.
Agile: The Kanban Way, Gil Irizarry, Program Manager, Constant Contact
Retrospective: Interactive Session

(Plus, if you need a more basic introduction to Agile, you can join our workshop "Agile Essentials: People, Planning, and Product Practices" with Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, Inc. from 8am to Noon on Monday, September 10th)

For a taste of what will be in store, visit our 2011 Agile Summit Live Coverage:

Live from #PWWCBA: Agile Summit Beginnings
Live from #PWWCBA: All Analysts are Bilingual
Live at #PWWCBA: The Corporate Agile Transformation: Yes, It Can Happen
Live from #PWWCBA: Structured Conversations to Deliver Value

Plus, At PW&WCBA 2010, Ellen Gottesdiener spoke with our guest blogger Agile Scout's Peter Saddington about some key takeaways from her session on agile retrospectives:

So, in retrospective if you will: what is one agile question you hope to have answered? What is one challenge you are facing? Comment here or join the discussion on our LinkedIn group.

Live from #PWWCBA: An Activity for Changing Your Mindset

During our next session "Measuring Product Knowledge Not Project Tasks" with Dr. Terry Barnhart, Senior Director Global R&D, Pfizer, Barnhart shared an activity that could be a good exercise for anyone wishing to think their way around project roadblocks.

Step 1. Write down a multi-step task (say, 5 steps) in a project you are working on
Step 2. Write down two entirely different sets of steps that could give you the same output value
Step 3. For each step of the process, write down the questions that each step answers
(For example, if your step is "Walk to the store to get food" the question might be "How am I going to feed myself?")

By replacing activities with questions you open yourself up to different possibilities. Answered your questions become a proxy for progress on your project, unanswered they can show you clearly where your project gaps are.