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Beyond One Happy Team: Self-Selection for a Better Culture The talent shortage is real. According to CareerBuilder research, 60% of US organizations today can't fill their open positions in 12 weeks or more. Combined with a high turnover rate, this leads to a massive loss of profit opportunities.How can we create a culture that attracts people and keeps them engaged, motivated, and well-jelled with their teams? And after they join, how do we build resilience into our teams and the organization? Empowering people to choose their own teams - a 'self-selection' - is a great vehicle to build happiness, resilience and a better culture.In this session I will share stories from running successful self-selection events in New York, Dublin and Chicago, and how I prepare technology teams and management for their first self-selection events. Participants will learn about the ingredients of successful self-selection and its positive effects on employee retention and company resiliency. They will leave this session with actionable steps, excited about their first self-selection experiment. 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.

Beyond One Happy Team: Self-Selection for a Better Culture The talent shortage is real. According to CareerBuilder research, 60% of US organizations today can't fill their open positions in 12 weeks or more. Combined with a high turnover rate, this leads to a massive loss of profit opportunities.How can we create a culture that attracts people and keeps them engaged, motivated, and well-jelled with their teams? And after they join, how do we build resilience into our teams and the organization? Empowering people to choose their own teams - a 'self-selection' - is a great vehicle to build happiness, resilience and a better culture.In this session I will share stories from running successful self-selection events in New York, Dublin and Chicago, and how I prepare technology teams and management for their first self-selection events. Participants will learn about the ingredients of successful self-selection and its positive effects on employee retention and company resiliency. They will leave this session with actionable steps, excited about their first self-selection experiment. 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.

Maximize your ROI with Value Stream Mapping How can we provide greater value to our customers while eliminating delays, improving quality and reducing cost? Customers seek to pay for products and services that meet their needs and using Value Stream Mapping, a company can identify which activities deliver true value to the customer, and continuously optimize these activities. Embracing Value Stream Mapping brings value to the forefront of every decision a team makes, and well-defined value streams keep the entire team focused on the ROI throughout the delivery lifecycle. Do you know what is the value-added time of your processes? Understanding your processes efficiency can help you increase ROI and accelerate time to market. In this session, we will look at best practices, examples and tools to implement and profit from Value Stream Mapping. 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. Takeaways: Explore the difference between pursuing agile and leveraging agility for business problem solving Leverage lean-agile thinking and practices to deliver tangible, sustainable value in 90 days Expand organizational fluency for problem-solving so that we can more effectively address current as well as emerging challenges

Using Design Thinking to Drive Innovation A new kind of leadership and thinking is required if innovation is the goal. The Design Thinking approach allows us to address a wide range of complex challenges, using a human-centered perspective towards solving a problem. The Design Thinking creative methods enable organizational change, combining what is desirable from a user point of view with what is economically viable and technologically feasible to create a better future for customers. However, Design Thinking is not another process, delivery framework or set of steps that needs to be followed; it requires a change of individual mindset and organizational culture. By sharing personal experience, Denis Vukosav will provide insights on how to encourage change and use Design Thinking to successfully drive innovation in an organization. Additionally, some of the key Design Thinking challenges on the innovation journey will be discussed and ways to resolve them will be suggested. Assess the benefits of the Design Thinking approach Recognize the challenges of innovation and ways to overcome them Identify leadership styles required for managing Design Thinking organizations

Becoming a Data Quality Expert Data science is an exploding field with tremendous demand. Having high quality data is an absolute must for any business today and data informs every decision a business must make. But what if you have poor quality data? What if your company acquired another company and the data structure does not match? What if you have large gaps in the data you have vs. what you need?Imagine yourself as an IT project/program manager who has run many engagements for the business. You have great PM skills and you run your agenda with the precision of a Swiss watch. But you now have to run Data Quality for your organization. Can you just program manage this and be fine? What will be different about this than any other IT project?Wake-up call: a WHOLE LOT! You must acquire a lot of new skills and you must become a data expert as quickly as possible. I want to share with you my journey and experience. I have had to go from deeply technical in some IT areas, to project/program managing general IT projects, to gaining specialized skills in data quality. I will share with you my assessment, gap analysis and mitigation strategy that transformed me into a data quality expert.

Shifting Left Until We Shift Right - Does It Make Sense to Test in Production? Pablo Picasso famously said to learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.' For over 20 years, the principles of agile and lean software development have been reshaping our industry with incontrovertible positive impact. However, as is so often the case with guiding principles, there are cases where the original intent has been lost and replaced by simplified patterns that sometimes prevent us from making the right decisions. In this talk, CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber will look at the guiding principles and original intent of agile practices to illustrate that the next frontier of testing in production may seem counterintuitive on the surface but, when done well, is a natural evolution of agile. Attendees will: Develop a better understanding of the principles that led to specific practices in agile development Recognize how advancement beyond planning work, such as devops and CI/CD evolved from these principles Make decisions about where and how to apply these practices in their own work Apply scenario planning to minimize cost and risk while maximizing value delivery in their own business

Tired of the Burnt Out Blues - Double Click on Self Care with Agility In this strange new world, companies are under pressure to adapt quickly. Being agile has never been so important. But how about the individual? We are filled every day with double doses of Stress, with a capital S! We hear it on the news, in our minds, from our friends; then we feel it in our shoulders, back, and whole body. If that is not enough, we have lost our routines, sense of freedom and normalcy. This is all before Noon! HELP! Together, let's halt the chaos, embrace new perspectives and 'create from' by double clicking on Self Care. We will embrace learning experiences and embody simple practices that take us from barely surviving to thriving. Together, let's release what is not serving you, step into your true self and turn up a new way to double click on YOU. You must put on your oxygen mask first in order to help and serve others. Learn to focus on self-care using the Integral Theory Walk away with practical self-care techniques to use in an agile world.

Introverts/Ambiverts/Extroverts As Excellent Leaders Our traditional view has been that virtually all leaders are extroverts. Based on 300+ interviews with C Suite Executives (100+ being CEOs) we have found that about half are introverts and half are extroverts, similar to the normal population of the U.S. and Canada. This was a considerable surprise. Not everyone is an extreme introvert or extrovert-the distribution is a bell curve, so most people are just a bit introverted or bit extroverted-and introverts make great executives, as well.In this presentation, Karl will talk about the many strengths (and a few weaknesses) of Introverts, Ambiverts, and Extroverts and how they might become even better leaders. He will discuss how to effectively work with each type, how to be a better manager for them, and how to work more effectively for them, if they are your boss. 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.

Lead with Joy! You won't get to joy by leading the way you always led. You, the leader, will need to make a change, serious change. In this talk, Rich will explore his own journey to joy, how he had to learn to lead in a completely different way, by doing so, witnessed results that exceeded his wildest expectations. In this talk, Rich will use this example and by analogy apply it to the human teams we are leading. The message is simple: when we finally understand the relevant principles (in flight, or in teams), we can fly to heights and distances that were previously unimaginable. Rich will take you on a journey of change and bring you to the place he is now ... that we stand at the vanguard of understanding what it takes to unleash the human potential of the people who work for us and around us. He will explain how the common, unchanging, disengagement statistics are a fundamental failure of leadership and what simple things we can do to get our teams off the ground and flying. 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.

Personal Agility A Powerful Leadership Framework Discover the keys to truly embrace Agile values and uncover the power of gaining clarity around what really matters. In this session, you'll learn how to create more alignment in your organization and apply Personal Agility as a leadership framework to guide your teams toward reaching a state of higher performance.Focusing on people over process through this simple framework will allow you to uncover better ways to identify obstacles, visualize what's important, and focus on what really matters as individuals and as an organization. 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.