Enterprise Agility Starts With Healthy Teams: How Healthy is YOUR Agile Team? Enterprise Agility Starts with Healthy Teams; How Healthy are YOUR Agile Teams? Have you been adopting Agile methods across several teams but wondering if there is a consistent way to measure their health and progress? What does it even mean to be a "healthy" Agile team? Take a deeper dive with our dynamic Agile Expert, Sally Elatta, as she walks you through the top 5 metrics you need to be looking at to measure the health and performance of your Agile teams and how you can create a continuous growth process where teams, programs and portfolios are getting better quarter after quarter. 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 Agile Mindset: Motivating vs. Mandating Change Agile Transformations can be hard on teams if not properly managed and oftentimes, people who don't readily embrace an Agile mindset are vilified and accused of sabotaging the initiative. Yet studies show these problems tend to stem from leadership's unawareness of what motivating factors enable their teams to be most receptive and responsive to change, resulting in many teams not having the data and security needed up-front to embrace change in the most effective ways. Through this talk, we'll offer you key tips and techniques to overcome these challenges! By attending this session you will: Learn the hidden reasons some struggle to embrace an Agile Mindset! Find out how to discover what types or data, security and context your people need to embrace change more quickly! Discover new ways to motivate your people toward a continuous Agile mindset, from the start!
Agile's Easy, The Adoption of Agile Isn't Agile's easy, but the adoption of Agile isn't! Having spent 20 years at the front line of Agile adoptions, spanning organisations ranging from small to Enterprise in both the Private and Public sectors, this presentation will highlight some best practices for Agile adoption, including: the importance of understanding the organizational and cultural landscape, how to avoid the common bear traps and how to lay the foundations for a sustainable adoption. 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 Intersection of Agile and Culture Most accept that agile methods and practices work but how do you apply them at scale without stifling the creativity, autonomy, and energy of your teams? Listen as Aaron Bjork describes the importance of organizational culture in scaled agile implementations. Aaron will share stories from his experiences at Microsoft and provide practical advice for how to intersect agile and culture in your organization and teams. Key takeaways: Learn why culture and agile are not mutually exclusive. Learn practical ways to strengthen the agile mindset on your teams. Learn ways to identify where culture is interfering with agile adoption. Learn what has/hasn't worked during Microsoft's agile transformation.
When is Your Agile Transformation Done? After over a decade of agile transformations. many organizations have several years of agile experience of agile are naturally looking for signs that the change is complete. Attention turns to the level of skill or maturity an organization needs in order to declare the transformation a success. As a result. models of agile maturity have emerged that promise to somehow measure how agile you are.The good news is that agile. by definition. should be iteratively delivering value from the moment a transformation starts. Looking back. your ability to deliver has already changed immeasurably. You are already faster. more focused. and delivering a product with higher quality. The bad news is that you have only just started your journey. Change itself has changed. as Gary Hamel said. What looks mature today will be 'bare essentials' tomorrow.Using the concept of Wardley Maps. we will talk about what agile maturity looks like today. and where agile maturity will go in the future. We will learn how iterative value delivery is the price to pay to move along the experience curve. The more frequently you deliver value. the faster you move along the experience curve. By introducing a model of increasing agility. you will be able to map out the path of your transformation. filling in any gaps that you may have and beginning to understand what direction your transformation may take you in the future. What you will Learn Key Takeaways: Differentiate between maturity models and development models. and apply the right model in the right situation Learn how to apply Wardley Mapping to your agile transformation strategy
How to Set Up an Agile Scrum Team - Proven and Simple Steps For waterfall projects. we have A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). The 10 Knowledge Areas. 5 Process Groups and 49 Processes make for a great (albeit long) checklist. Agile projects are not as prescriptive. so you might be wondering: 'Where do we start?' 'How do I know if the team is ready to start Sprinting?' 'Is there a new Agile/Scrum Team set-up checklist?' We have developed a simple. 5-step roadmap to setting up an Agile Scrum team that we will share in this entertaining presentation. What you will Learn At the end of this session you will be able to: Describe and understand key issues with Scrum implementation Use a 5-step roadmap to set up an Agile Scrum Team
Unexpected Agility: How to Achieve Marketing Agility by Focusing on Teams Instead of Projects Total organizational agility is the future of business. yet only a tiny fraction of organizations have successfully managed a complete Agile transformation.With its litany of benefits and decades of application history? Why does Agile struggle to make the jump to the rest of the organization? What if the very experiences that drive Agile change agents to evangelize it outside of IT are standing in the way of total Agile transformation?Join Certified Professional in Agile Coaching and 15-year digital marketer Andrea Fryrear as she uses Agile marketing departments as a case study for understanding and eliminating the cognitive biases that hold back business agility efforts. By attending this session. you will be able to: Overcome the translation problems that arise when introducing Agile ways of working to groups that have never used them before Identify and mitigate the two most detrimental cognitive biases that plague Agile trainers. coaches. and change agents Help marketers (and other non-Agile groups) start exploring Agile by taking a people-first approach instead of a process-first approach