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Steve Greene, Director of Tools & Process, Salesforce.com |
| How do you engineer a successful agile transformation in an ambitious, fast-moving business? Most organizations proceed iteratively—team by team—to reduce risk and learn by doing. Not Salesforce.com! They moved their entire R&D organization to an agile model, throwing the switch on thirty teams all at once. Most agile experts thought they were crazy. However, in the end, the transition became one of the fastest, successful agile transitions to date. Steve Greene talks about how, in just three short months, they moved their entire team from a waterfall-based approach to a Scrum-based methodology they call Adaptive Development Methodology (ADM). The technology team uses this methodology to regularly deliver three to four major releases a year to more than 43,000 customers who execute more than 150 million transactions per day. Steve describes the challenges they faced, the business value they have achieved, and the recent results of their quarterly team-wide survey. |
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| Every business week, leaders make hundreds of decisions. Within an organization, these add up to thousands and possibly millions of individual choices. What if you had a way to ensure that each decision is aligned with the overall corporate strategy and supports a sustainable competitive advantage? What if you could ensure that the choices leaders make within your organization use a strategic process that takes into account changing markets and environments—instead of a static three-year plan? In this interactive session, Niel Nickolaisen explains how leaders and teams can develop a strategic process, including a practical, usable decision filter to guide the hundreds and thousands of business decisions made in organizations. Leave with the tools you need to develop effective decision filters, align project objectives and results with corporate strategies, and make decisions using a dynamic process that almost always moves you toward your goals. |
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Sue McKinney, Vice President of Development Transformation and Integration, IBM |
| Transitioning 25,000 developers to agile development processes is a challenge on its own—and making the transition during a global recession is even more ambitious. Join Sue McKinney as she discusses her experiences leading the move to agile at IBM, how their agile teams often struggled, and ways leaders provided support and understanding at many levels. As the global recession set in, Sue looked for tools that leaders could use to increase productivity—even after cost cutting—and unleash the talent and innovation agile teams need to continue succeeding. Learn specific leadership approaches you need to support distributed teams as they adopt and deliver using agile methods. Discover the tools you can use to inspire and motivate change in a large organization steeped in tradition or a small one stuck in its ways. Find out the new leadership skills that teams must encourage and nurture to build a successful agile enterprise. |
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| Melanie Bristol, Director of IT Quality Assurance, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. |
| These are unsettling times. We are asked to be more productive with fewer people and continue responding to changing business priorities. Join Melanie Bristol as she shares the story of her large IT development shop that, over the past three years, has been “turning the battleship” from a waterfall, plan-driven software development methodology to agile development practices. With a focus on how this turn has affected the business, middle and upper management, and cross-departmental group dynamics, Melanie describes how their enterprise initiative was structured and rolled out. Learn about the metrics that helped sell senior management in the first place and now demand management’s continued support, how obstacles blocking the enterprise initiatives were resolved, and the transition of her traditional software quality assurance team to agile mentors. |
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