E-MailAgile Management Day 2007
Many companies have had very successful agile projects, but wonder how they can move agility to the next level, integrating it into their enterprise’s DNA. Identifying leaders who can successfully manage and lead agile initiatives has also been problematic, making agile integration more difficult at both the project and enterprise level.
Join us on Sunday, 29 April in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a full day of hands-on expert workshops, where you’ll learn to identify and cultivate the behaviors needed in successful agile managers, and take the first steps toward integrating agile throughout your enterprise.
You’ll access the expertise of Cutter’s Agile Practice Director Jim Highsmith and Cutter Senior Consultant David Spann. And you’ll benefit from discussing challenges and solutions with an intimate group of your high-level peers throughout the sessions and at coffee and lunch breaks.
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Creating an Agile Enterprise
Facilitator: Jim Highsmith
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Session 1
Time: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
One or two or four successful agile projects does not make a successful Agile Enterprise. From project governance to production support to project management issues, failing to recognize and address integration issues can impede an organization with successful agile projects from becoming a successful Agile Enterprise. In this half-day tutorial, Cutter Consortium’s Jim Highsmith will address the enterprise and organizational issues that must be considered for agile practices and principles to become fully integrated into an organization’s way of doing business — that is, "agile integration."
This interactive tutorial focuses on the six key areas in which agile concepts and practices must be integrated into the enterprise: organization, process, culture, governance, alignment, and performance. Jim will not only define each of these six categories, but he’ll also explain why integrating them throughout the organization is so critical to achieving the Agile Enterprise, and he’ll provide advice on techniques you can use to change attitudes and lead the way to achieving a truly Agile Enterprise.
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Looking For and Developing
Agile Management Behaviors
Facilitator: David Spann
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Session 2
Time: 1:30 – 5:30 pm
What defines the right candidate for a management/lead position on your agile team? What types of behaviors make one person a success and another a failure? In this workshop with David Spann, you’ll discover what behaviors are present in successful agile managers, how to identify who possesses those behaviors, and how to cultivate them in others so they can successfully manage and lead agile initiatives. You’ll learn how to determine if an individual will feel comfortable in the role of agile manager, how to identify individuals within your organization who have the potential to be successful agile leaders, which behaviors need to be further developed/moderated in your current agile managers and/or candidates, and how to create job descriptions and hiring announcements that are compelling enough to entice the right candidates.
When you register for this full-day event for just $718, you'll save $200 off the single-workshop price. Don’t miss this opportunity to take agile to the next level in your managers, your organization and your enterprise.