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Navigating Toward Successful Products Directional awareness in product development is one of the most challenging aspects of building things-whether applications, services, or true products. Gaining a true north in your journey and having a light to show you the way are often the difference between success and failure. But what is your compass? Where is your lighthouse? It's your customer, and your challenge is determining how to effectively engage the customer. Agile product management provides a distinct mindset with techniques and patterns useful in navigating these often-convoluted courses. And Anu Smalley is an expert captain who helps organizations and teams achieve greatness with their products. Anu explores vision-setting and chartering as critical initial focus points-in other words, beginning with the end in mind. She shares a set of do's and don'ts when it comes to evolving a product. Sharing real-world stories from her client experiences, Anu brings a fresh perspective to the notions of establishing an MVP and running experiments to chart your course. Anu explores effective listening as a lost art for helping your customers find their true north so they can understand and deliver what they truly need. Anu explores vision-setting and chartering as critical initial focus points-in other words, beginning with the end in mind. She shares a set of do's and don'ts when it comes to evolving a product. Sharing real-world stories from her client experiences, Anu brings a fresh perspective to the notions of establishing an MVP and running experiments to chart your course. Anu explores effective listening as a lost art for helping your customers find their true north so they can understand and deliver what they truly need.

From Resisting Agile to Yes, Agile! - Where Have You Been All My Life? If you're working in an Agile environment, does the following sound familiar? You feel trapped in an agile wrong environment where there's constant resistance - and no way out? Everyone is looking for a magic pill to fix all issues and get answers, right away? There are toxic behaviours, resistance, and it feels like you're always fighting to help? If you answered yes, then you may be in an Agile Wrong environment! Are you ready for change? Change for yourself, your teams, and your organization? Then buckle up and let's move from the agile wrong mindset and environment to a yes agile where have you been all my life environment. Key takeaways include: Recognize when you are in the wrong environment and what do do about it Taking a deep dive into organizational and team cultures and how to enter them as an agile coach Make sense of the language and actions of different culture systems, their capabilities, and how to move teams from one system to the next

Scaling with Simplicity - How to Eliminate Complexity in Large Agile Programs As agile thought leaders debate if agile at scale is really "agile" many of us who work in the trenches understand that scaling is sometimes necessary. We work in legacy environments and on complex codebases that require coordination. Our organizations may be working towards independent teams and a microservices architecture, but even the migrations required to get there demand scaling. This talk will help participants reduce complexity in scaled organizations and simplify their program framework. Attendees will receive actionable recommendations to help them execute more efficiently starting today. With a heavy focus on eliminating dependencies and effective planning, the presentation will help attendees bring simplicity to even the most complex scaled programs. Interspersed through the presentation will be real-life examples of successes and failures so attendees can understand how to put ideas into action. Attendees will also receive tips on influencing leadership to adopt these recommendations, empowering them to drive sustainable change. Key takeaways: How to simplify a program's operating model Tips for eliminating dependencies and managing through dependencies that can't be cut How to overcome two problems no amount of planning can solve for: bad requirements and unstable priorities Strategies to reduce the impact of prioritization changes How to influence the change necessary to build a better managed program

Scrum Transformation for Publicly Traded Companies Scrum for Publicly Traded Companies shares what the Scrum Inc. team has learned about maximizing investor returns with Scrum, valuations and acquisitions and spinoffs with scrum, and completing initiatives with high investor scrutiny. Our presenter, Joe Justice, will be focusing on examples from Tesla, 3M, and Toyota. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

Responsible and Irresponsible Project Management Project managers have begun to embrace the concept that they have a responsibility beyond value creation for a narrow group of stakeholders. Since the early 2000s, the adoption of agile moved the focus of PM from company to customer value creation. Responsible PM seeks to extend our perspective to encourage Societal value creation (positive long-term environmental and social impacts) and reduce irresponsible PM, which is societal value destruction. Responsible Project Managers take ownership of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and enact them in their daily practice in an ethical manner. In this way, Responsible PM is differentiated from Corporate Social Responsibility, which is focused on organizational level representations and processes of enacting societal and community responsibility.

Stakeholder Engagement Skills for Project Managers Correctly identifying and engaging your stakeholders can mean the difference between project success and failure. In this important session, we will explore methods and tools to keep your project stakeholders satisfied. Identify and Analyze Stakeholders - We will discuss 3 Models to differentiate key stakeholders from other stakeholders Plan Stakeholder Management - We will examine approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project Manage Stakeholder Engagement - With the ever-increasing complexity in stakeholders' needs, expectations, and diversity, project managers must have exceptional interpersonal skills, so we will add some valuable interpersonal tools into your tool box Monitor Stakeholder Engagement - We will present ways to consider whether the engagement strategies are effective

The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage any Project with a Single Sheet of Paper This presentation will introduce the One-Page Project Manager™ and explain why OPPMs have become the world's leading project-simplifying tool. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

The PMBOK® Guide - Seventh Edition - A Pragmatic View Project Management Institute (PMI)'s PMBOK® 7 Guide is out! But wait, it looks really different! How are we supposed to use this? The heavy processes are not in this edition and for some, it may look like these were replaced by "Do whatever you want";. So now what? In this session, Rubin will show you PMBOK® 7 Guide is not as different as you might think. Rubin will give a brief recap of the PMBOK® 7 origins and structure, and guide you through each of the new performance domains. You'll learn to formulate your own assessments, and be fully aligned with PMI's new structure. What You Will Learn: The relationship between PMBOK® 6 Guide Knowledge Areas and PMBOK® 7 Guide Performance Domains The 12 principles of the PMBOK® 7 Guide which define the 'what' and 'why' of project delivery, and their application A strategy for you to determine your goals and outcomes for the new domains

What They Forgot to Tell You About Project Management Would you like to radically change your work environment and achieve success, satisfaction, and growth in your project management career? This video shares practical and tested project management leadership skills that will empower and inspire you. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.

Agile Leadership & Enterprise Transformation: Why it Works Enterprises are evolving to become Agile Organizations to thrive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing environment. They evolve continually and embrace uncertainty and ambiguity. These modern Agile organization require a new kind of leadership which is fundamentally different from traditional mindsets. The Agile Leader has a Learning and growth mindset, an ability to inspire purpose with empathy and foster collaboration at an individual & Team level and instills outcome oriented self-direction. Transformation in large Enterprises are longterm journeys. Agile Leadership is fundamental to sustain over time and keep pivoting with outcomes that matter. Embedding new ways of working, Enterprise Design Thinking, Customer centricity and other movements will make Change the norm instead of the exception. This requires the formation of Teams with a DNA to continuously adopt best practices. Marcel will share his Enterprise Transformation perspective from having worked in Technology with many Clients in Europe and Asia throughout two decades. He will be sharing personal insights grounded in real-life stories about what works and what doesn't. His personal journey in agility and lessons learned will inspire you for your own way forward. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs.