There’s a lot of talk about new management paradigms, agile leadership, servant leadership. But what does it all mean? What does a leader do? What makes a person a leader? What is to lose and gain by slipping into a different model of leadership? Esther will explore these questions and offer ideas, directions, and perhaps a few challenges.
Many change leaders approach Agile adoption with naïve expectations. They don’t understand that training and coaching teams alone won’t be enough to ensure that their Agile initiative succeeds. Agile transformation entails change that will be broadly felt throughout the organization in policies, processes, mindset and culture. The key to successfully leading change that runs this deep is organizational change management. Organizational change management helps change leaders usher in extensive operational and structural changes. Even more important, it helps leaders facilitate the human aspects of change that occur during Agile transformations. In this webinar, we discuss what an Agile transformation is, how to successfully engage stakeholders, the critical role of change management and how to lead Agile change successfully.
Learning Objectives
One of the most challenging and trouble-prone aspects of agile product development is discovering the right product requirements to deliver at the right time, for the right customer. Many teams rely on user stories to discover and define agile requirements. But in reality user stories often lead to a confusing array of struggles and puzzles, such as bloated backlogs, ineffective or inconsistent planning, and erratic Sprint flow. This thrashing is not how user stories are intended to work!
Join Mary Gorman in this fast-paced introduction of a common sense, tested approach to user stories. With a laser-like focus on delivering value, you follow a story as it’s sliced across the 7 Product Dimensions. You learn how the Structured Conversation framework enables you to quickly explore, evaluate, and confirm stories. See how making your user stories “ready” is the key for incremental delivery of your “Done” product.
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With the world around us continuing to evolve and speed up, the need to quickly respond to an ever changing set of regulations, user demands, and emerging market disruptors made agile one of the most trendy movements for corporations around the globe. The reality is, Agile has been around for nearly two decades, so why aren’t there more success stories. Many are failing because they don’t have the appropriate conditions in place to enable them to succeed and are forcing it without doing the necessary pre-work to establish a foundation.
This discussion uses examples from people attempting a Health & Fitness transformation as a layman’s illustration for the struggles organizations attempting an agile transformation experience. In both cases there are people who are not ready to embark on their transformation, who disregard the obvious indicators and proceed anyway. These transformations are highly likely to fail and the individual or organization just ends up wasting a significant amount of money only to end up in the same or worse shape than they started.
The discussion concludes with a list of key conditions to look for and a recommendation on how to determine if your organization is ready to embark on an agile transformation. Whether trying to prepare for an upcoming transformation or get one that’s already in-flight back on track, you will leave with an understanding of what areas to address that will greatly increase your likelihood of realizing the successful organizational transformation you envisioned.
Simple techniques for making decisions around risk and opportunity
You know "collaboration over contract negotiation', right? However, metrics often drive a wedge between management and the team, none more so than forecasting metrics. However, when you give a probability distribution as the answer to the question, "When will we get it?" instead of a single date, an amazing transformation happens. Suddenly, the team and management start working together to manage tradeoffs and risk.
You need two things to take advantage of this paradigm shift: 1) How do you start to think probabilistically?; and 2) How do you generate a probabilistic forecast or analysis? This talk provides mindset shifts necessary for #1 and lots of worked out practical examples for #2.
More Agile organizations are realizing some exciting value in identifying and operating around value streams. Influence in how people are organized, how funding is allocated and how priorities are determined are all common.
Many organizations, however, are not realizing the full value that value stream mapping can bring to a lasting transformation. In this session we will explore some opportunities for expanding the view of the real value of value streams in your transformation efforts.
Struggling to tell the story of why your organization needs internal coaches? Are you an internal coach and feel like the value you provide is not understood? Wondering how to navigate through being a servant leader in an organization that measures your success by the results that you deliver? Interested in connecting and learning from others that share the same challenge and passion? If so, this session is for you!
I will share my own personal experience at Capital One in creating the support and space for internal coaching. This session will offer the space for the audience to dialogue with other participants sharing the same passion and for those ideas to be shared in the session.
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IBM is on an agile journey like no other company. This presentation will share how a multinational enterprise has moved forward on the agile journey, unleashing the innovation and team creativity of people around the world to transform how business gets done. A special focus on of this conversation will be on the experiences of the IBM team in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina to jumpstart agile methods and practices across multiple physical locations, multiple business functions, including non-technical functions, and how you can use these same techniques in your company.
Agile is no longer the technical destination for digital companies. It’s a gateway for everything that has to happen next.
The Agile wave has already hit the beach, but it’s left in its wake a variety of new challenges to how project managers lead in a world of increasingly self-organizing teams. On top of that, the post-Agile technology innovations hitting Enterprise (DevOps, Cloud, and now MicroServices) represent even greater disruptions to not only new organizational process and delivery models, but will force a complete transformation of the role that project managers play in corporate life. Join us for a journey -- past the wave of Agile, through its wake, and into the next waves ambitious companies will have to ride and manage in their pursuit of becoming truly digital organizations. It’s no longer enough to be Agile. You have to be nimble and humble to navigate the next waves.
In this hands-on session, we'll apply The Responsibility Process to your life and work so you can unlock your natural ability to live and lead with power. It will be fast-paced, informative, and possibly life-changing. Many people report breakthroughs in this brief session.
What is The Responsibility Process? It's a little-known pattern in your mind you use to process thoughts about taking and avoiding responsibility. It's foundational to leadership, and many believe it is the essence of agility.
Far too many good, motivated, hard-working people get stuck in jobs they don’t want, projects gone bad, work problems and careers they don’t enjoy, and companies they resent. It happens to individual contributors, leaders, and coaches too. It can happen to us all. Those who know how to practice responsibility as a daily habit identify and own what they really really want—and go for it. This changes the choices they make, which in turn leads to enjoying far greater productivity, self-direction, shared leadership, and good will.
When you learn about, apply, and practice The Responsibility Process you too can discover how you are far more powerful and able than you likely give yourself credit for. You will learn to access a pattern in your mind that you can rely on to create change and behaviors that matter.
It is more apparent now than ever that high performing teams are more successful than those that are not. Most of your work life is being part of a team. The traits of being an effective team member are often viewed as skills that people are born with. For some it may come easier than others, but everyone can learn and hone these skills. For me, these are skills I honed while training and performing as an improvisational comedian.
To accomplish anything, you need the help of others and others need your help. Successful teams have members that are continually improving how they interact and communicate with each other. Collaboration, creativity, and results grow out of an environment that is positive and affirming.
In this highly interactive and fun session, Kupe, an improvisational actor, focuses on key improvisation lessons that will help you be a more attentive and flexible team member. You will walk away with lessons to help you stay in the present, temporarily suspend judgment, keep conversations moving forward and listen generously. These skills are needed to build positive, trust based, results oriented teams. With Kupe's background he will be able to help you directly apply these skills to your job.
