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Although agile practices have proven their value within thousands of development teams, many software leaders want more. With many large and complex projects underway and more on the horizon, agile practices need to scale up—beyond individual projects. Agile development teams need to better align their objectives with other departments, within IT, and throughout the organization. To increase the value they can deliver and reduce friction, many agile leaders are now looking for ways to influence the management style and practices within the enterprise.
The Agile Leadership Summit is your chance to join your peers and agile industry veterans—Robert Begg, IBM Software Group; Christine DelPrete, Amirsys; and Andre Frank, Liquidnet Holdings—to explore the unique challenges facing software development leaders as agile practices move into the mainstream. You’ll hear what’s working—and not working—for them and have the opportunity to share your experiences and successes.
During the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening, you’ll have the opportunity to share and discuss your agile leadership issues. Friday, in the highly interactive Think Tank Session, you’ll work together in small groups to discuss these challenges and brainstorm solutions.
The Agile Leadership Summit is a perfect opportunity for you to:
• Meet and network with your peers in the industry
• Participate in insightful and informative sessions focusing on agile leadership issues
• Join in the “think tank” discussion with industry veterans
• Develop new ideas and action plans for innovation within your organization
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Program Chair
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Pollyanna Pixton
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| 5:30 p.m. • Welcome Reception — Think Tank Issues Identification: As a Leader, What Is Keeping You Up at Night? — Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova |
| 8:00 a.m. • Registration and Breakfast |
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Robert Begg, Lean/Agile Development Coach, Software Engineering Transformation and Improvement, IBM
No one can dispute the effectiveness of applying agile practices on small teams. And now, many organizations, including IBM’s Software Group (SWG), are demonstrating how to scale agile development practices for large, complex projects and across large enterprises. They are learning how to overcome major challenges and getting huge paybacks in productivity and quality improvement. By replacing the traditional processes and culture with lean and agile practices, IBM’s SWG has transitioned its 25,000 engineers and the entire development leadership team to a new management and engineering style. In this highly interactive discussion, Robert Begg shares how IBM is enabling teams to take ownership of their agile adoption by focusing on the purpose instead of the practice. Join the discussion as Robert explores the challenges and successes both small and large teams encounter on the road to agility. Learn how their purpose-based adoption philosophy helped guide their way forward and kept teams and leaders on track to meet their long-term goals. |
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| Learn more about Robert Begg |
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| 9:30 a.m. • Networking Break |
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Andre Frank, Global Business Process | Program Management, Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.
When moving agile from software development to the entire IT organization or into the enterprise itself, how do you adapt the agile philosophies, principles, and processes? Join Andre Frank as he discusses his experiences leading Liquidnet to become an agile company. Andre shares the approaches his team used, the leadership support provided during the process, and how they dealt with the ever-present resistance to change. Explore the ways that Liquidnet’s existing corporate culture supported their efforts and how Liquidnet managed the adoption of agile principles throughout the entire enterprise. Learn how Andre’s team structured the agile rollout and influenced people to truly change their thinking—not just to follow another methodology. Andre shares the set of practices, techniques, and tools Liquidnet used to move their organization to agile. Find out how they changed processes and introduced new cross-departmental, group dynamics to deliver better results across the entire business.
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Learn more about Andre Frank
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| 10:45 a.m. • Networking Break |
| 11:00 a.m. • Think Tank Session: Leadership Solution Brainstorm and Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. • Networking Lunch Buffet |
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Christine DelPrete, Senior Program Manager, Amirsys
The agile culture is colliding head-on with the command and control culture within many companies—and everyone is feeling the pain. Under a command and control leadership style, agile teams are often stifled. They can struggle to gain clarity on corporate objectives, fail to receive accurate guidance on market needs, and thus cannot reach their optimum performance levels. Based on her experiences with numerous agile teams, Christine DelPrete shares techniques she has used to assure that development teams consistently align project goals and priorities with business and customer objectives. Join Christine to explore the common company practices that often trip up agile teams and learn tactical methods to help re-form those practices and help smooth working relationships. Take away new tools and approaches for protecting the teams from disruptive influences as you work to shift entrenched cultures toward supporting agility within the development team.
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| Learn more about Christine DelPrete |
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| 2:30 p.m. • Wrap-up and Ongoing Informal Discussion with Speakers and Attendees |
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