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Essential Patterns of Successful Agile Transformations (Part 1&2)
DESCRIPTION:
The very title of this talk might challenge you. Many don’t like to use the term transformation, instead, preferring adoption, migration, transition, business agility shift or many other phrases. Regardless of the term used, this talk focuses on how to move an organization (teams, leaders, people, culture, etc.) towards more agile approaches to product development. And its raison d’etre is that many (most) really struggle to do that.Join Bob Galen and Shaun Bradshaw as they explore critical patterns for transformations including finding the right agile champion, setting up an Agile Transformation Team, why it’s critical for leadership to be agile first, and how to find and communicate the why behind your transformation.We’ll also explore some of the organizational (structure, roles, alignment) challenges that you’ll have to break down to then build back up. Finally, we’ll review the role that leadership plays in safety, culture, modeling, and generally guiding the transformation change journey.You’ll leave this session with an abundance of ideas around how to create an effective and balanced transformation backlog that you can immediately start executing for your own transformation.
Register for our next webinar, Essential Patterns of Successful Agile Transformations – Part Two, on February 18, 11:00 AM
Meet the Panelists
MEET THE PANELISTS:
An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach, Bob Galen helps guide leaders and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other agile methods. Bob is often called “a Coach of Coaches” because of his deep and broad experience in the agile arena. He is director, agile practices at Zenergy Technologies; president of RGCG, LLC; and a frequent speaker at international conferences and professional groups on topics of agile software development. Bob authored Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing, Scrum Product Ownership, and Agile Reflections. A prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster.
Shaun Bradshaw is a cofounder and principal of Zenergy Technologies, a software delivery solutions firm with multiple industry experts under one roof and a large testing facility in North Carolina. With more than twenty years in the IT industry, Shaun is a recognized expert, coach, and thought leader in QA and test process improvement, agile testing, test management, and metrics. Shaun has architected the test strategy and managed large teams of testers for numerous projects, including a multi-year ERP implementation that went into production with no major issues. More recently, Shaun has spent a majority of his consulting time assisting organizations through their agile transformations, coaching leaders, managers, and teams to ensure they make the shift not just into agile practices, but agile thinking and behaviors.
Metrics presentations have been a staple of software conferences for years. But, why are they so popular? Businesses rely on data to make decisions and metrics allow them to roll up data into bite-sized morsels of deliciousness for managerial consumption. The key however, is identifying which sets of metrics 1) give a valid picture of what’s happening in the organization and 2) provide enough information for teams and leaders to act upon.
In this presentation, Shaun Bradshaw, once referred to as the Minister of Metrics, discusses four sets of “healthy” agile metrics, which when applied in a balanced manner, can give significant insights into an organization’s place along the agile transformation continuum. Implementing these metrics will also assist organizations in honing in on areas that are working well or need improvement to take them to the next level.
Learning Objectives: Attendees should walk away understanding
- Key metrics dysfunctions to avoid
- 4 sets of measurement areas that can be effectively applied to determine areas where improvements should be made
- How these areas of measurement work together to provide a balanced view of organizational agile transformation
Shaun Bradshaw
VP OF CONSULTING SERVICES, ZENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Shaun is a founder and principal of Zenergy Technologies and has worked with his business partners, Chris Laney and David Dang, for over eighteen years. Shaun is a mainstay on the agile and QA & testing industry conference circuit. Shaun has been delivering featured presentations at all the major QA & testing conferences for over twelve years, but has recently become in demand for keynotes. In 2013 he gave the closing keynote for StarWest, the largest QA & testing conference in the United States, and in 2014, he delivered the opening keynote for SoftTec2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bob Galen
INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE PREMIER AGILE COACHES AND TRAINERS IN THE WORLD
Bob Galen has worked with Zenergy Technologies for over ten years to deliver world-class agile solutions including transformations and coaching. With over fifteen years of in-depth agile experience, Bob is an accomplished author, trainer, and speaker who is widely recognized as one of the leading voices of pragmatic agility. Bob has written three books on agile and is in high-demand as a speaker at agile and software quality conferences world-wide.