The Agile Executive

My Agile 2010 workshop “How We Do Things Around Here In Order To Succeed”  will weave together four trends that I am witnessing in my practice:

• The ascendance of Agile portfolio management in a world characterized by loosely coupled processes
• Devops dynamics are becoming more and more characteristic of end-to-end Agile/Kanban patterns
• Viral spread of technical debt metrics in software governance
• Increasing use of boundary objects in the enterprise context

The workshop is structured around three case studies/exercises that will take about two-thirds of the allotted time (the morning of August 9). The other third provides the theory and tools to be used in the three workshop exercises and (hopefully) in many future engagements participants in the workshop will carry out. Deep technical knowledge is not required – the workshop targets any Agile practitioner who has conceptual grasp of culture, software development, IT operations and portfolio management.

The #1 takeaway from the presentation is the details you need to know about creation and capture of lasting value through end-to-end Agile initiatives.

Here is the workshop agenda (still subject to some minor tweaking):

• Introduction to Cultural Framework
• Exercise #1: Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Culture
• Change Behavior, Not Culture
• When Organizations Clash
• Exercise #2: Conflicts in Devops
• The Agile Flywheel
• Exercise #3: Using Technical Debt as a Boundary Object in Devops
• Bringing Organizations Together Through Enlightened Governance Loops

I look forward to meeting you in the workshop and learning from your experiences and insights!

Israel