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What is Disciplined Agile? Where did it come from? Where is it going? How can it help me? In your organization, you are very likely using a variety of approaches to deliver solutions to your stakeholders. You might be using traditional waterfall, agile, or hybrid approaches. If you are applying agile methods or frameworks, you might be using Scrum, SAFe®, Lean Kanban, or 'roll your own' techniques. Regardless of what methods you are using, the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit can help you to be more effective. It is an agnostic, comprehensive library of strategies and practices, with practical advice for which ones work for in different contexts. Many organizations struggle to evolve an agile way of working (WoW) that makes sense for their unique situations. The good news is that you don't need to figure it out on your own. The DA tool kit leverages the experiences of thousands of teams who have already struggled through the very issues that our teams currently face. By referencing these strategies, you can accelerate your journey to project delivery success using a technique we call Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI). Learning Objectives This presentation explains the value of the Disciplined Agile tool kit and how to use it in practice with GCI across your entire organization, putting you on a path to true business agility. Learn what DA is and where it came from Learn about where DA is moving next Understand how DA can help you with your projects

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Learning Agility as the New Differentiator for Managing Projects at Today's Pace of Change Levers of Project Agility: Effective Sponsorship You may be using agile processes in your projects, even have extended the use of agile management practices into other areas of business. However, lack of purposeful and appropriate sponsorship can stifle most projects. An under-engaged or over-enthusiastic sponsor can demotivate the team, slowdown decision making and disrupt even best agile processes. In this talk, we will examine the crucial role of the sponsor, their desired attributes and their relation with the project manager, product owner and scrum master to identify the risk factors and provide tips and tools for avoiding pitfalls and having effective sponsors. You may be agile, but a poor sponsor can still hamper project success. We'll examine this crucial role, ideal attributes, and provide tips to maximize sponsor effectiveness. 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 Base Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing Five simple Agile Base Patterns give us the power to adapt rapidly and win in changing business environments with submarine competitors, surprise regulations, emerging markets and fickle customers. These patterns help us better assess our people, teams and whole organizations, and provide specific direction to improve and become anti-fragile. 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.

Enabling Agility by Measuring What Matters Sally is simply a transformer-someone who is passionate about helping teams and organizations do what they do better. In this session, she aims to help transformation leaders assess their transformation maturity in each of the 7 Pillars of Enterprise Business Agility; and understand how to accelerate their transformation by aligning teams to outcomes and removing their obstacles. What is Business Agility? Challenges and Enablers The 7 Pillars of Enterprise Business Agility The 3 Metrics that Matter Aligning Teams to Outcomes Measuring Team Health and Removing Obstacles 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.

Showing Up to Be Your Best Every Day Your Organization is Agile...YAY! You are working in a prescribed framework (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) YAY! You are a part of a Dynamic team...YAY! You are all set and running as a defined High Performing team NO! So, what is in the way? Erin will help answer that, it isn't just a team problem. Through her experience in Agile environments, Erin realized many organizations check all the boxes for implementing agile, but forget the most important which are the behaviors. Over the years, Erin has started to focus on the behaviors needed in an agile environment. In this session you will look at questions like: what gets you excited? What makes you frustrated? What motivates you? How are you showing up? Are you owning your day or renting it? And why reflecting on these matters! Erin will provide tools that we will use to identify personal behaviors and statements that you will be able to use not only within your profession, your team, your organization, but also in your daily life outside of the office. Are you ready to show up to be your best? Learning Outcomes Uncover behaviors needed in an Agile environment. Tools that can be applied immediately after the session to help uncover challenges, strengths and possibilities Taking time to be introspective. 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.

Discover to Deliver. Accelerating High-Value Product Delivery Agile discovery is essential for the continuous delivery of a high-value product. While practices for agile delivery have made great strides, the work of collaboratively exploring and agreeing on inventive and valuable product requirements remains a challenge. Learn key principles and practices for enlightening and energizing your agile product discovery. 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.

Ask & You Shall Achieve! Discover Collaborative Problem Solving to Realize Greater Value in the Agile Framework If you want to succeed in today's economy, the true measure of your success is not in getting people to work; it's not even in getting people to work hard. It's about getting people to work hard TOGETHER, to achieve and create something good... something valuable. To create value, you must know HOW value is measured and HOW to allow your team members to best contribute their talents. The wisdom already exists within your team. It's your job to allow it to flow. Do you know what questions to ask yourself? Do you know what questions to ask your team? Are you asking questions that increase collaboration, co-creation, and co-elevation? In this presentation, we will explore Agile, Axiology, and Asking better questions that lead to better solutions, better results, and greater value. Learning Objectives: Understand the hierarchy of value and impact on leadership Discover the 3 dimensions of Questions Use the principles of axiology to lead and motivate Discover the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) Process

Enabling Agility by Measuring What Matters Sally is simply a transformer-someone who is passionate about helping teams and organizations do what they do better. In this session, she aims to help transformation leaders assess their transformation maturity in each of the 7 Pillars of Enterprise Business Agility; and understand how to accelerate their transformation by aligning teams to outcomes and removing their obstacles. What is Business Agility? Challenges and Enablers The 7 Pillars of Enterprise Business Agility The 3 Metrics that Matter Aligning Teams to Outcomes Measuring Team Health and Removing Obstacles 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.