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Bring your biggest issues and challenges to the Agile Leadership Network Summit where you can draw on the knowledge and experiences of Summit leaders and your fellow managers who may have already faced and solved some of your issues. You’ll hear what’s working—and not working—and have the opportunity to share your experiences and successes.
The Agile Leadership Network Summit is a unique opportunity to engage in a dynamic mix of learning, sharing, and exploring. Accomplished agile leaders will share their expertise—both successes and failures—and lead exploration into what makes agile grow and thrive.
During the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening, share your agile leadership and adoption issues. Then Friday, gain new perspectives in sessions with industry leaders and share ideas in highly interactive Think Tank sessions, where you’ll work together in small groups to discuss these challenges and brainstorm solutions.
The Agile Leadership Network Summit will help you to:
- Connect and engage with agile leaders
- Build your network of leaders in multiple industries
- Share your experiences with others
- Develop a personal career development plan
- Brainstorm possibilities for the future
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Program Chair, Linda Cook
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| 5:30 p.m. • Welcome Reception — Think Tank Issues Identification: Agile Leadership and Adoption Issues |
Crafting an Agile Career Framework
Pat Reed, Gap, Inc.
The “career ladder” metaphor is as antiquated as the typewriter. Most of us are so focused on doing our work that we take our career for granted, assuming that it will naturally unfold in a progressive trajectory up the traditional “ladder.” However, we may discover the ladder is blocked when the next rung is occupied by someone who is not moving up. Let’s replace the old metaphor with the “career jungle gym.” You pick your own path. Sometimes you move up, but more often you move from side to side, across, or even down and around to get where you want to go. As you move, you increase your knowledge, improve your skills, and become more valuable to your organization. Pat Reed leads this imagineering workshop and challenges your mental models of career ladders as she shares building blocks and activities to craft a flexible and adaptive career framework to optimize your organizational capability and personal growth.
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Pat Reed
HP LaserJet Transformation: Using Outlandish Ideas to Deliver Phenomenal Enterprise-wide Results
Mike Young, Hewlett-Packard
HP’s LaserJet firmware runs on millions of printers and has a twenty-five year legacy of success. However, it had become unwieldy. It was designed for simple printers but now had to be optimized for complex multi-function products. Market forces demanded a much quicker response to deliver new products and features, and HP struggled to keep up with increasing quality expectations. Even with increased investment, firmware was always the bottleneck. HP turned to agile and lean principles to transform their development and test processes. The LaserJet firmware system—with 10M lines of code—was re-architected from the ground up. Using four-week sprints, with both successes and stumbles along the way, the code base was completely redesigned, as were HP’s development and test processes. By adopting outlandish ideas like “10x developer productivity improvement”, “integrate code changes within an hour”, and “run a full regression test suite every night”, HP created an organization that sought out opportunities for change—and then made them happen. Mike Young shares the real-world business results that came from this amazing agile transformation.
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Mike Young
Want to Keep Your Clients Happy? Make Your Systems Enhanceable
Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks
A major point of friction between IT departments and their business clients—whether users or product managers—is the rigidity and lack of responsiveness to change in IT systems, but how these systems got to this condition is a question for another talk. The more important issue, addressed by Rebecca Parsons, is how to change this difficult situation. Making a system maintainable requires new tools, agile processes, and a higher level of collaboration. Rebecca describes the various agile techniques that can transform an inflexible system into one that is easily enhanced and identifies warning mechanisms that prevent inadvertent drift back into the mud. Both senior technicians and business leaders whose responsibilities include driving business results through IT systems will learn how these techniques can make them more effective in growing the organization in the face of competition—even in this changing and challenging business climate.
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Rebecca Parsons
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