Agile, Waterfall, and everything in between starts and ends with teams. No matter what role you play on the team you have the power to unlock the team’s real potential. No – this isn’t a talk on how to get a higher velocity while working less. This session is the practical view into HOW to become or inspire high performing teams. Join seasoned agile and leadership coach Jessica Soroky as she shares the secret to unlocking your own personal power first. Sick of talking conceptually? Don’t worry this session is all about giving you real tools and techniques you can start using today to take...
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"Leading through Agile’s Larger-Scale and Regulated Challenges"
Thursday, June 7, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. • Friday, June 8, 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
One of the challenging landscapes for agile transformation is in more regulated environments, such as the medical and financial domains. While agile is possible in these contexts and can even thrive, it often requires a different sort of leadership skill to guide the introduction and evolution.
This summit is focused on solving your issue in these larger and more regulated contexts, including:
• Heavier-weight requirements and traceability
• Earlier portfolio-level valuation and planning
• Longer roadmap forecasts and firmer commitments
• The inherent complexity of larger-scale environments
The speakers are from financial, medical, and large-scale organizations—and these are folks are from the trenches, who have led and coached successful agile adoption efforts and can share their proven practices.
Come to this summit to relate your experience and hear from seasoned practitioners. The dynamic, collaborative discussions will be rooted in scaling agile and addressing real-world problems in challenging environments.
Even if you’re not solely focused on agile from a methods perspective, the principles and practices can vastly improve the performance of virtually any regulated organization.
Friday, June 8
Limitless by Choice: Unlocking Your and Your Teams’ Potential
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Agile in a Regulated Environment – Advice from a “Blues Traveler”
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 10:15am to 11:15am
Implementing Agile practices in a regulated industry has its own set of unique challenges. Learn what worked and didn't work at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and WellCare Health Plans as they adopted Agile practices in product and software development within their regulated organizations.
Join Leon Sabarsky as he shares his advice and lessons learned on implementing Agile at the Blues and other healthcare organizations. Some or their particular challenges included scaling up, connecting with non-agile PMO’s, reconfiguring our traditional testing processes, and...
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Shhh...it's not "SAFe"!
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Scaling agile is tough. Convincing regulated financial institutions to change their "governance" processes to a matrixed, decentralized decision-making organization is almost impossible. But that’s just the change of direction that adopting agile approaches requires.
Come listen to the journey that Mary Thorn took with two regulated financial institutions by implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) without the business-side and people actually realizing the source of the change.
You will learn why and how the principles and values of SAFe and agile can transform any...
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For Lasting Change, Take an Agile Approach to Your Agile Transformation!
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 1:45pm to 2:45pm
One of the most difficult challenges faced by an organization entering a large-scale, enterprise transformation is how to achieve lasting change. Oftentimes, leadership will charter an Agile Center of Excellence (COE) in the hopes that training, coaching and publication of best practices will bring the desired change. While these actions typically generate excitement and build early momentum, by themselves they will not change the “DNA” (aka, mindset) of the enterprise. To avoid long-term atrophy of agile benefits, it is critical to charter a COE that is deeply in-tune with the enterprise...
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