Agile Development Practices - Leadership Summit


			Agile Leadership Summit: An Executive View of Where Agile Is Heading By Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) November 14, 2008 Whether you are skeptical of agile practices or a leader who is tasked with bringing about the changes needed for agile practices to reach their full potential, the Agile Leadership Summit is for you. Agile adoption offers opportunities for faster time-to-market and significantly higher product quality, with the bonus that applications remain malleable and easier to change over their lifetime. However, to gain these benefits, you need to align your organization’s culture, priorities, and structure with agile principles. Join leaders from the industry—Steve greene, Director of Tools & Processes at Salesforce.com; Sue McKinney, vice President of Development Transformation and Integration at IBM; Niel Nickolaisen, CIO and Director of Strategic Planning at Headwaters, Inc.; Israel gat, vice President of BMC’s Distributed System Management; and others—who have embraced agile principles and hear them share how they have put agile to work successfully in their organizations. The Agile Leadership Summit is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with your peers and learn proven ways to improve software delivery by evolving people and practices to be the best they can be.

Who Should Attend?

Program Details

Benefits of Attending

Anyone interested in the exploration of agile leadership of projects and enterprises should attend the Agile Leadership Summit.

The Agile Leadership Summit offers you a unique opportunity to start or to continue your work toward being a great agile leader. The summit is for both new and seasoned agile leaders—at all corporate levels, including CIOs, CTOs, Directors, General Managers, Product Managers, and Project and Team leaders.

Whether you are just thinking about bringing agile into your organization or you have been in the trenches before, this is your chance to spend time with some of the world’s leading practitioners and experts in the area of agile leadership. Take this opportunity to network and share your experiences and concerns with them and other leaders who are in your same situation.

The program—for novice to expert agile leaders who are interested in learning more—educates through a tutorial and experience track with discovery in “Think Tank” breakout sessions that build on each other as the day progresses. The Agile leadership Summit provides:

•	Networking opportunities throughout the day
•	A suite of intensive sessions and experience reports
•	“Think Tank” discussion sessions on agile leadership with topics addressing advanced leadership tools, experiences, lessons learned, and issues yet to be decided by the group
•	A panel discussion over lunch where practicing agile leaders discuss the value of agile leadership in the enterprise

Full Program Summit Sessions Details

	From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies… Presented by Tim Lister
	Wherefore Art Thou Business Value? Niel Nickolaisen, Headwaters, Inc.
	Unleashing the Fossa: Scaling Agile in an Ambitious Culture Steve Greene, Salesforce.com
	Leading the Agile Disruption Israel Gat, BMC
	The Dancing Agile Elephant: IBM Software Group's Transition to Agile and Lean Development Sue McKinney, IBM

Plus, panel discussions, think tank sessions, networking opportunities, breaks, and more!

Build a network of leaders to connect with for support as you explore agile leadership. By attending the Agile Leadership Summit, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Learn how IBM is converting 25,000 developers to agile methods in distributed environments
See what changes BMC made to complete projects in five months that would usually take one year to complete
Discover how Salesforce.com converted their entire company to agile overnight and what preparation they did to make this conversion a success
Gain advice from leaders who have “been there” and what they have learned in their transitions to agile
Learn how IT and business leaders can rapidly align business and IT, develop pragmatic strategic and tactical plans, and improve decision-making in agile environments
Explore the pitfalls other leaders experienced and how they successfully navigated them to deliver results

Agile Project Leadership Network is a non-profit organization that is focused on connecting, developing, and supporting great project leaders. The founding members of APLN wrote the Declaration of Interdependence, which expresses the values that the group holds with respect to leading projects in today's chaotic world. Join APLN Today!