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Agile Leadership Summit Sessions
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
8:45am Becoming Chefs: Responding to Change in an
Uncertain Future
Rhea Stadick, Intel
Agile adoption is often part of a larger effort to create a thriving work culture―one that supports
the reality of changing customer needs while prospering in a dynamic environment. Knowing
that we can’t predict the future, Rhea Stadick says the next best thing we can do is to prepare
ourselves to quickly and meaningfully handle shifting contexts. Unfortunately, we often see our
agile adoptions focused on the latest and greatest recipe (a.k.a. tool or method). If we approach
our work more like a chef approaches cooking, we will focus more on learning the basics,
experimenting, and continually evolving our craft. To be successful, we must stop mastering only
one way of doing things—following a recipe—and put in the effort and courage to become more
like chefs. As talented and inventive chefs, we can position our companies and ourselves to create
new and novel ways of working that will place us ahead of our competition.
10:00am Create Product Flow: Understanding Value and
Value Lifetime
Andy Krupit, CareerBuilder
In the agile community, value is an often-used term but many people struggle to achieve it—
and most do not know how to measure it. Teams seek to deliver value via their agile process
by taking a disciplined approach with planning in iterations. Analyzing velocity trends and
establishing a consistent pattern with estimating are just plain difficult. So, how does a team use
their process to continuously learn and set expectations? How do they know if they are working
on the right things? Andy Krupit shares his experiences evolving objective measures that matter
at CareerBuilder. Andy discusses how he’s helping create an environment of true product flow
by shifting focus from the efficiency of the parts of the process to the speed of the end-to-end
delivery of value—and understanding how that value decays over time. To help you facilitate
better decision-making and prioritization, Andy explores implementing Reinertsen’s framework
for thinking about value.
12:15pm Uncover the Secrets Your Customers Want You
to Know
Jeremy Kriegel, Method sans Madness
What don’t we know? What do we assume to be true? What happens if we’re wrong? These
powerful questions have the ability to change the course of any project. Finding the answers can
be scary, but you don’t need to be a Sherlock, Mulder, House, or UX research expert to get out
of your bubble and find the answers. Relying only on internal input can be limiting, and getting
out there can be intimidating. However, your customers want to tell you everything you need to
know to be successful. Jeremy Kriegel explains how to identify your biggest risks and formulate a
plan to address them. Learn the basics of different UX techniques, when to apply them, and even
a few expert tips. Even if you don’t have the benefit of expert researchers, you can learn how to
effectively engage your customers to learn the secrets they desperately want you to know.
1:45pm Fostering Sustained Agility: What Is Needed
outside the Teams?
Tricia Broderick, Pearson
In the agile community, value is an often-used term but many people struggle to achieve it—
and most do not know how to measure it. Teams seek to deliver value via their agile process
by taking a disciplined approach with planning in iterations. Analyzing velocity trends and
establishing a consistent pattern with estimating are just plain difficult. So, how does a team use
their process to continuously learn and set expectations? How do they know if they are working
on the right things? Andy Krupit shares his experiences evolving objective measures that matter
at CareerBuilder. Andy discusses how he’s helping create an environment of true product flow
by shifting focus from the efficiency of the parts of the process to the speed of the end-to-end
delivery of value—and understanding how that value decays over time. To help you facilitate
better decision-making and prioritization, Andy explores implementing Reinertsen’s framework
for thinking about value.
For the past nine years, Rhea Stadick
has worked in software quality and
developing engineering teams at Intel
Corporation. Rhea has been a strong
advocate for the adoption of agile
principles and practices across the
company and in the wider industry. Along with a small
group of crazy change agents, she started the first Intel
Agile Conference that spurred the strong grassroots
adoption of agile ways that now extends across more
than 20,000 people. Rhea’s current focus is on helping
organizations across Intel develop cultures and
competencies to create thriving work environments that
support excellence in people and product development.
Agile evangelist Andy Krupit is the
manager of agile development at
CareerBuilder in Norcross, GA. Andy
coaches and mentors teams in the
adoption and improvement of agile
methodologies and lean practices
across the organization. Andy first started applying
lean in the early 2000s as a software engineer in an
environment of continuous integration, where
deployments to production happened anywhere from
a few times a week to daily. In 2007 he piloted the first
Scrum team with tremendous success. Now, Andy
coaches all teams, leaders, and others outside on
applying lean and agile practices.
Jeremy Kriegel has been designing
great user experiences for eighteen
years. From start-ups to Fortune 100
companies, as a consultant or on an
internal team, Jeremy has seen many
different scenarios that each required its
own approach. He brings this diversity of experience to
bear in adapting UX to an agile world and finding the
balance appropriate for each project. As principal
consultant at Method sans Madness, Jeremy now
specializes in helping startups and teams take an idea
from concept to user-centered experience. His previous
companies and clients include Drizly, Gemvara,
Dunwello, Everest Poker, Endeca, and Sapient.
Passionately focused on the facilitation
of high-performance software
development teams, Tricia Broderick
brings seventeen years of experience
including the past seven years with an
agile mindset focus. Tricia leverages )