The Agile20Reflect Festival

Free Global 24/7 Agile Festival February 2021

New Ways of Working the Human Component

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New Ways of Working Agile20Reflect Festival

The Agile20Reflect Festival will have created a great focus on the past, present and future of Agile in Feb 2021. Taking that impetus to the next level we want to think wider about how we can establish the principles of Agile and leverage them in organisational change and new ways of working.

PLANNED AGENDA
18:05 Introduction Karl Smith
18:10 Dr. Gail Ferreira
18:50 Q&A
19:00 Comfort Break
19:10 Dr. Stefanie Puckett
19:50 Q&A

This session is being set up to set out as an Agenda for Change that is focused on humans and how they can remain central to the Measurable Success in Organisations.

Karl Smith will introduce this event he has been a consultant and innovator in Business Transformation and Human Centred Design since 1989 and in Agile since 2004 involved in supporting both business and technology in the adoption of Customer Centricity and Agility. His recent focus has been on combining HCD and Agile in Enterprise Agile Portfolio management as an extension of SAFe.

“While there is now a huge body of work in regard to Agile Transformation much of it has been focused on ‘continuous flow’ and ‘transparent work’ leaving the areas of ‘how to work’ and ‘other people’ in many cases without guidance so they often create anti-patterns that ultimately undermine the Agile Transformations” Karl Smith

Recent interviews and mentions
– https://youtu.be/OcrEoXBYRWs
– https://www.iresearchservices.com/thought-leaders-voice/agile-transformation:-faster,-smarter-and-responsive-marketing

SPEAKERS

Dr. Gail Ferreira is a technology leader and agile expert who has led multiple transformations, coaching individuals, and organizations around the world for Fortune 50 technology and management consulting organizations. Dr. Gail has acted as a Program Chair and Track Chair for the Agile Alliance from 2015 – present, for both the annual Agile Alliance conference as well as the XP conference. Currently, Dr. Gail is the Program Director for “The Silicon Valley Project”, which is a unique partnership between UC Santa Cruz and the PMI Silicon Valley, in charge of producing, directing and managing all events.

As a thought leader, Dr. Gail has presented at multiple international conferences including IEEE, Agile Alliance, XP (Portugal), Agility Today (Delhi), Bay Area Agile Leadership Network, and the PMI. Dr. Gail has many books available on Amazon for publication in the field of agile digital transformation, technical leadership, and agile transformation.

Dr. Gail is an advisor for the Agile Program and Project Management Certificate program at UC Santa Cruz Extension. She also teaches at other internationally accredited universities and colleges, specializing in technology, leadership, and project management.

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Dr. Stefanie Puckett is Director and Principal Consultant at metaBeratung, Hogan Distributor in the DACH Region. She holds a doctorate in organizational psychology and about 15 years of professional experience.

She has worked for several management consultancies, in management and global roles for a Fortune 500 company, and ran her own business. Living and working in America, Switzerland and Germany has given her a global perspective.

With the topic of agile transformation, she deals with as consultant, executive coach and book author.

Stefanie is certified executive coach (CEC), board certified coach (CCE), agile certified practitioner (PMI), and agile coach (ICAgile).
She is author of “The agile culture code” and other non-fiction books and published over 30 professional articles.

Connect with Stefanie:

This event is supported by Paradigm Interactions Inc.

RTP ALN Open Space: The Pandemic and Onward

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The Raleigh Durham (RTP – Research Triangle Park) Chapter of the Agile Leadership Network is hosting our annual OpenSpace Conference. This year the conference is coordinated with the Agile20Reflect Festival.

Our organizing theme is “The Pandemic and Onward.” For many in technology, remote working and distributed teams are familiar territory. In other business sectors, like financial and manufacturing, the pandemic isolation has been a disruption. For personal services and hospitality, its been nothing short of a disaster.

Outside of business, the pandemic has turned the modern dilemma of a person who is “alone in a crowd” into a person who is “in a crowd alone.” Our contact with others is mediated through apps and telecommunication devices. At one time we have never been more connected while being so apart.

And, yet, we see adaptation, innovation, and change: theaters stream live performances and musicians sell concerts from their living rooms; Zoom has become synonymous with on-line conferencing with families and friends; schools consider a future where there are no more snow days.

How has the pandemic disrupted the workplace? What role has Agile played in the response to the disruption? Which of these changes are lasting? What does the Future of Work look like after the pandemic has ended?

Join us to explore the past, present, and future of Agile through the lens of the global pandemic and our response to it.

Archived The Future of Agile where next? A panel discussion.

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Future of Agile

 

The Future of Work Scotland team are excited to be supporting the Agile20reflect festival with a look at the “Future of Agile”

This session will see four of our past guest speakers return to engage in a lively debate on where Agile goes from here. What could the future hold?

Come join us in 2021 and here the thoughts of four respected Agile thought leaders.

Our panel will include:

Johanna Rothman:

Johanna is a speaker, consultant and author of many books including managing product development and From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver (with Mark Kilby). Johanna joined us in April 2020 alongside Mark to share her insights on going from co-located to dispersed teams.

Johann is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” and provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. We love hearing Johanna’s insights and are delighted to welcome her back!

Lyssa Adkins:

Lyssa has not previously been a guest speaker with us but she really needs little introduction. A recognised coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer.

To quote Lyssa “I believe that Agile is a brilliant, emergent response to help us thrive in our ever-increasingly complex, changeable and interconnected world. My current focus is coaching Leadership Teams and Boards of Directors to take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to do — on both a personal and group level. For many years I have been a passionate contributor to the discipline and profession of Agile Coaching and have trained thousands of agilists in the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to coach teams and organizations to get full benefits of Agile”

Lyssa is of course the author of Coaching Agile Teams which is still a best seller 10 years later. We are thrilled that she has agreed to join our panel discussion and share her thoughts with our community.

Tobias Mayer:

Tobias joined us for a brilliant session in October 2020 where he facilitated a discussion on “The Now of Work” amidst the challenges of the global pandemic and all the upheaval it brought for our work and lives.

Tobias Mayer is an explorer of human relationships, writer, mentor, teacher and speaker. He is committed to the liberation of the corporate workplace, and to that end, spends a lot of time thinking, talking and writing on personal responsibility, grassroots initiative and confronting the status quo. Tobias is the author of the 2013 book ‘The People’s Scrum’, and the upcoming audiobook ‘The State of Work’.

Website: tobiasmayer.uk
Events List: tobiasmayer.uk/events
The People’s Scrum Audio: tobiasmayer.uk/tps

We are delighted he is making a return to share his valuable insights.

Archived Has Agile Populism killed Agile

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Has Agile Populism killed Agile Agile20Reflect Festival

 

Agile is now a commodity amongst the general business population does that mean it should freefall, how should we move forward and do we have a common meaning and focus?

A look at the current state of Agile and its Commoditization as a live workshop and conversation.

PLANNED AGENDA
18:05 Introduction Karl Smith
18:10 Joseph Assaf
18:50 Q&A
19:00 Comfort Break
19:10 Bob Payne
19:50 Q&A

SPEAKERS

Joseph Assaf is a highly organized and client-oriented, developing entrepreneurial abilities and always showing perfection at every accomplishment by achieving the success of a project with focused and talented team members cross-cultural communication abilities. A certified SPC and an Agile coach, with a background in Architecture, Joseph has acquired the mindset to maintain focus on the end results and drive continuous improvement, whilst always placing great emphasis on engaging all stakeholders in an Agile working environment.

Connect with him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-assaf93/

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Bob Payne is an early adopter of Extreme Programming and Scrum. He has worked exclusively as an industry leading Lean+Agile Transformation leader since 1999, helping individuals and organizations achieve results with Agile methods.  He has worked in small startups, fortune 100 organizations and government with teams, programs and executives. He is the SVP of Agile Training and Coaching at LitheSpeed.

Bob was one of the earliest Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) recieiving his CST certification directly from Ken Schwaber. As one of the world’s best Scrum and Agile trainers, Bob has an exceptional pass percentage on the Scrum certification exam.  Bob teaches the CSM, CSPO, Certified Agile Leader, Certified Scrum Development, and Path to CSP-SM classes.

As a thought leader in Agile he is the host of the Agile Toolkit Podcast, founder of Agile Philanthropy, Chair of the Agile DC conference, organizer and speaker at national and international conferences.  With nearly 20 years of practical hands-on Agile experience, Bob has served as a trusted advisor to executives, teams and management at leading firms, including United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, The IRS, Nike, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, National Geographic, Nationwide Insurance, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung, and Walmart.

 

This event is supported by Paradigm Interactions Inc.

Ellen Grove Agile20Reflect Festival Patron Interview Series

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Ellen Grove, interim Managing Director at Agile Alliance Interview

There are a lot of learning and insight on her acceptance as patron

Watch the interview here – The Interview

Our Festival focus is on the celebration is 20 years of Agile manifesto

– History and Origin of Agile

– Current State of Agile

– Future Possibilities for Agile

#Agile20reflect #Patron #Agile #agilealliance

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