Agile + DevOps West 2022 - Leadership Summit Sessions
Friday, June 17
Opening Remarks
Welcoming remarks from Leadership Summit Moderator, Jeffery Payne to kick the Summit off and discuss the days agenda.
Summit Keynote: The Secret Recipe of Scaling
With the rapid proliferation of agile scaling frameworks, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and simply grab a popular one off the shelf. However, there are certain practices that can be helpful in some circumstances and active hindrances in others, and many come with trade-offs that require close consideration. Agility means adapting your approach to your circumstances, but before you construct a method of your own it’s important to understand the variations between available frameworks and their suitability to your situation.
Join Arlen Bankston as he explains how...
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 inner Agile...
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...