Maturing Your Organization's Agile Adoption

Held in conjunction with the Agile Development Practices Conference, the APLN Leadership Summit provided another opportunity to collaborate with my friend and colleague  Bryan Campbell.  

You’ve started down an agile adoption path; teams are working from prioritized product backlogs; iteration goals are being set and achieved; and working software is created every day. Now what? As more organizations adopt agile practices, they are challenged by the time and effort it takes to develop and mature agile skills across an organization. Organizations and leaders need tools to help them guide the agile skills adoption process. Using the Seven Stages of Expertise model developed by Meilir Page-Jones, this presentation will help you understand where you are, determine where you want to go, and take actions to keep your teams progressing along the path toward agile maturity.  Also provided are a self-assessment guide and a set of problem scenarios to practice your skills.

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What's This Thing Called Agility?

The presentation continues to evolve as an introduction to agility focusing more on the values and organizational culture side of agile principles. This presentation looks at projects, teams and leadership required for success.

Maturing Your Organization's Agile Adoption

In collaboration with Bryan Campbell  this presentation uses the Seven Stages of Expertise model developed by Meilir Page-Jones to propose a framework that will help you understand where you are, where you want to get to, and the leadership required to keep your teams progressing in their development of agile skills. The presentation also defines some basic leadership guidelines and a number of real-world scenarios that test your skills.

Agile practices offer a reasoned way to address uncertainty and change in ever evolving business environments and steer the organization toward achieving the best possible outcome for its effort.  This presentation introduces agile practices using Scrum as example and looks at the makeup of agile teams and leadership they require.

Traditional project management methods often approach all projects in the same plan driven manner regardless of the level of uncertainty and change represented by the project.  As a result projects fail to meet their anticipated business objectives and overall confidence in the team's ability to deliver is lost.  Agile methods are becoming well established to address these issues in software development efforts, but agility is not just for software.  Agile methods like Scrum can be applied to any project effort that entails significant uncertainty to deliver improved business results in ever evolving business environments, and do so in a manner that demonstrates visible, predictable progress toward today's most important business priorities. Based on a real-life client experience, this presentation will show how Scrum can be used to manage a complex supply chain process and ensure that business objectives are met.

By focusing on business value, transparent collaboration and continuous improvement, agility provides alternative approaches and toolsets than can meet today's challenges.  Using Scrum as an example, this presentation will provide and introductory look at how agility can be applied to deliver improved business results in ever evolving business environments.

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