Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Leadership Summit Sessions
Friday, November 11
Opening Remarks
Welcoming remarks from Leadership Summit Moderator, Jeffery Payne to kick the Summit off and discuss the days agenda.
Summit Lean Coffee: Leadership Secrets from the Room
While everyone has their own approach to leadership, we all have our go-to tips and tricks that can help others lead teams, organizations, and ourselves. These may be techniques for motivating staff, growing team skills, managing senior executives, or finding the right people for your organization. During this collaborative lean coffee session, Jeffery Payne will facilitate a discussion to elicit and discuss those leadership secrets used effectively by Summit participants. Using a lean coffee meeting format, participants will choose which aspects...
Summit Keynote: Coaching Your Way to Leadership
There are perspectives that imply Agile coaching is for a small set of specialized agilists who serve to improve everyone else. Or that it’s a unique role that others, including managers and leaders, will find difficult to impossible to master. This talk intends to debunk those notions. Everyone has leadership potential and can rise to be a leader. And leaders must learn to effectively coach if they are to be successful. In this workshop, Bob Galen will explore the nuance associated with Agile coaching to demystify it and encourage you to find your...
Think Tank Discussion Parts I, II, III, and Wrap-Up
11:30 AM
Join with your peers in an engaging and highly interactive session to discuss the issues that affect you most. Using answers to the question “As a Leader, What is Keeping You Up at Night?” posed at Thursday’s evening reception, participants will form small groups to work on finding solutions to pressing test management issues. Discussions will review identified issues, barriers to change, and focus on innovative strategies and practical next steps. At the end of the think tank, all feedback will be...