Agile & Lean From The Top Down: Executives Practicing Agile
This is my latest new material. I created this because I believe that most organizations will have trouble sustaining a true Agile culture if the Sr. Management team does not live the same way.
I believe that IT Executives must practice what they preach. If they want teams to be transparent and agile, they need to practice themselves and lead by example. This talk will share some Agile & Lean techniques, applied in a new way, to help organizations understand their constraints so they can transparently carry forward their journey to becoming Agile. “Seeing the Whole” includes customers, projects, applications, people, leadership, financials and Standard Work. We will propose creating a BVR (Big (I mean big) Visual Room), refactoring the PMO and suggest some practices to help support this journey. Executives are challenged to sign the Manifesto, lead by example, be transparent and support Kaizen.
During this talk, I unveil 25+ physical boards and together we build a big visual room with open discussion. The first time I did this talk was in May of 2009 at the Central Ohio Agile "Path to Agility" Conference in Columbus Ohio. I have been practicing these techniques at 4 clients over since November of 2009. After 8 months of success, I felt it was tested enough to share it.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more - the slides never tell the whole story. As you can see, I am not an avid blogger, but I will try to improve on that in the future and explain some of the key concepts.
