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Program Chair
Linda Cook
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When agile management guru Jim Highsmith was asked what he sees as the biggest failure in agile today, he answered, “Leadership!” Because managers and executives are unclear about how to support their agile teams, many of them hinder agile adoption instead of, as they desire, encouraging it.
Led by Linda Cook, a practicing lean-agile coach who as change agent has helped numerous companies, the Agile Leadership Summit by APLN is a unique opportunity for you to engage in a dynamic mix of learning, sharing, and exploring. During the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening, you’ll share your agile leadership and adoption issues. Then Friday, gain new perspectives in sessions with industry leaders and share ideas in the highly interactive Think Tank Session, where you’ll work together in small groups to discuss these challenges and brainstorm solutions.
At the Agile Leadership Summit by APLN, practicing leaders in companies that have adopted agile development present their war stories—both successes and failures—and lead exploration into what make agile grow and thrive—or die. This year’s Summit is honored to have three industry leaders on the program:
Pat Reed, Senior Director of Delivery Management Services at Gap, Inc., challenges the traditional paradigm of trading off scope, schedule, and cost, and offers a new model of sustainable and optimal flow of values from software development.
Max Keeler, VP of Project Management at The Motley Fool and one of its early employees, has seen his company go through many growing pains. A participant in their Scrum adoption in 2007, Max shares the benefits and limits The Motley Fool found with Scrum. Then, he describes the new portfolio management process they implemented in 2010 to support the growth initiatives and sustaining activities they envision.
Tom Paider, IT Director at Nationwide Insurance specializing in transforming the ways development teams create and manage software, explores his company’s transformation from a traditional development shop to one that embraces lean management systems, kaizen, extreme visual managements, and a problem solving culture.
Bring your biggest issues and challenges to the Agile Leadership Summit by APLN where you can draw on the knowledge and experiences of these 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 Summit by APLN is a perfect opportunity for you to:
• Meet and network with your peers in the industry
• Participate in insightful and informative sessions focusing on agile leadership issues
• Join in the “think tank” discussion with industry veterans
• Develop new ideas and action plans for innovation within your organization
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| 5:30 p.m. • Welcome Reception — Think Tank Issues Identification: Agile Leadership and Adoption Issues |
| 8:00 a.m. • Registration and Breakfast |
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Pat Reed, Senior Director, Gap Inc.
For many leaders, today’s extreme business environment demands capabilities outside our traditional management repertoire. How can we leverage change to our strategic advantage, innovate constantly, and increase business performance? Pat Reed introduces a project and portfolio framework to help leaders and their organizations adapt and thrive in complex, fast-paced environments. This approach offers tools to distinguish the essential from the expendable and develop a culture focused on rapidly delivering business value. You’ll learn how to define a value currency—with supporting measures and metrics—normalized across a portfolio of projects and identify ways to incorporate value curves within projects and value decision points for portfolio management. Bring your challenges and questions, and join in the discussion about creating business value. Take back a framework that will help you bring about sustainable organizational change and, ultimately, change the game to your advantage. |
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| 9:30 a.m. • Networking Break |
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Maxwell Keeler, Vice President, The Motley Fool, Inc.
Shortly after completing their enterprise-wide Scrum adoption in late 2007, The Motley Fool developed a simple initiative planning system to provide teams work that was sharply aligned with their business strategy. In 2010, they launched a new portfolio management process—incorporating Kanban—to better utilize Scrum both for growth initiatives and sustaining, “keep the lights on” projects. Max Keeler, who participated in and witnessed these dramatic strategic and operational changes, takes you through The Motley Fool’s evolution from project-level Scrum to full-on agile portfolio management. You’ll find out about their integrated process for valuing, prioritizing, staffing, and monitoring projects, and how they decide which types of projects are suited to the several different processes they support. Join in and share your stories and issues in the group discussion topics that will be interspersed throughout this session.
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| 10:45 a.m. • Networking Break |
| 11:00 a.m. • Think Tank Session: Leadership Solution Brainstorm and Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. • Networking Lunch Buffet |
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Tom Paider, Director IT Applications, Nationwide Insurance
One of the largest insurance companies in the United States, Nationwide Insurance is the home of a next generation application development center fusing a lean software development framework with agile principles and techniques. In this interactive session, Tom Paider explores with participants how Nationwide has combined the discipline of agile-compliant CMMI® with the flexibility of agile and the scalability of lean to create a powerful enterprise solution for software development. He describes their use of lean tools such as kaizen, A3 thinking, and value stream mapping to support scalability, problem solving, and continuous improvement. With Nationwide’s lean-agile practices, teams can confidently promise to deliver on time every time, within budget, and with almost zero defects. Join with other participants to hear why companies far and wide are making "gemba" trips to observe Nationwide’s success.
CMMI® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.
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| 2:30 p.m. • Wrap-up and Ongoing Informal Discussion with Speakers and Attendees |
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