Together with Diana Larsen, I'm presenting "The Agile CTO" at 9:00am Thursday on the Agile Frontiers stage of Agile 2009. In this session, we're building on the CTO research we presented last year at Agile 2008. Here's the blurb:

Agile fails without executive leadership. Although pockets of Agile can flourish for a while, only executives have the power to make an entire organization change.

The agile community has tried to sell executives on Agile rather than involve them. This workshop involves participants in discovering and documenting patterns for Agile executives to use. It builds on our previously-presented CTO research.

This session is appropriate for executives with Agile experience and for gurus who commonly work with executives. Others should wait for the results.