Name: Agile Americas
Start: 05/04/2022 12:30 PM +00:00
End: 05/04/2022 09:00 PM +00:00

Kanbanize is the leading Kanban software for agile project and portfolio management. It provides visibility across all projects and portfolios, connects planning with execution, and helps teams deliver faster by optimizing delivery workflows.
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Built upon the idea that all processes evolve, Kanbanize can easily adapt to changes in your organization, regardless of it being a start-up or a fortune 100 enterprise. Equipped with the most advanced feature set in the industry and a support team that is second to none, Kanbanize is a trusted vendor for more than 1000 companies and 200+ partners all over the world.
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Their mission is to discover new management ways and share this knowledge through amazingly powerful tools that are easy to use.
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They are on this planet to help people do meaningful work and by that accelerate innovation!
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Check out their website: https://kanbanize.com/&nbsp;
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Kanbanize

As a pioneering IT consultancy company, Xebia delivers high-quality services to cover all aspects of digital transformation.
Expert collectives specialising in Data &amp; AI, Cloud, DevOps, Business Agility, Low Code Software Development, Product Management, and Quality Improvement empower our brand.
We take care of your digital transformation from start to finish, from strategy to execution. Creating digital leaders across the globe.

Xebia

The interwoven groups of Xebia came into practice to ensure a smooth flow of IT knowledge and produce IT-ready professionals, with remarkable skills, original thinking, and self-sufficiency in deriving relevant solutions.
We provide trainings to teams, working professionals, students, and IT aspirants in specializations such as Data &amp; AI, Cloud, DevOps, Business Agility, Security, Software Development, Product Management and Quality Improvement. With the experience of training over 100,000 students globally, and a body of highly skilled trainers and consultants, Xebia Academy aims to bridge the gap between the on-ground technologies and ambitious individuals, bringing proficiency to the industry.
Taking advantage of our expertise in the IT sector and client feedback, we built a curriculum that is solution driven. Our experience with IT as an industry has brought us face to face with multiple challenges and numerous ways to approach these challenges. It is the experience of all these years that Xebia Academy is bringing into the classroom

Xebia Academy

Digital.ai is an industry-leading technology company dedicated to helping Global 5000 enterprises achieve digital transformation goals. Using value stream management as its cornerstone, Digital.ai combines innovative technologies in agile planning, application protection, software delivery, and artificial intelligence into a unified Value Stream Platform. Digital.ai makes it possible to connect software development and delivery efforts to strategic business outcomes and create secure digital experiences customers trust. &nbsp;

Digital.AI

Deepti Jain

Meetu Singh

Anand Sahay

Conference Opening

The pandemic taught us all why we need to be more agile. Whether it was managing kids school schedules, planning vacations, or even hosting a dinner party. Agility for businesses was no longer a nice to have, but a necessary capability as the world wrestled with the unknown of a global every changing pandemic. But what happens now? As we shift into the new normal do organizations take the learning of flatter organizations, empowered teams, flexible governance and frequent review and adaption and make long term organizational change, or do they move back to a more traditional model with a huge sigh of relief? The reality is yes and yes. The new normal is here to stay, but for the smarter organizations there is an opportunity to use this moment to build a more flexible, dynamic, outcome centric organization.
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In this talk Dave West, CEO Scrum.org describes what the future of enterprise agility is after the pandemic. He paints a picture of flexibility balanced with innovation and managed change and describes the choices that companies and people need to make to be part of this journey.

Dave West

Opening Keynote - Enterprise Agility - The journey not the destination

Organizations are complex adaptive systems, and are always changing. To keep pace with these multiple simultaneous changes and to lead such constantly evolving organizations effectively, leadership in the organization needs to be highly agile. But what does it mean? In this thought-provoking talk, Tathagat will discuss what does leadership agility mean, and how could organizations enable it.

Tathagat Varma

Raju K

Sonali Kar

Enabling Leadership Agility

Organizational agility requires a cultural transition. Too often, transformations get stuck in the blueprints of pre-planned waves of change. In large, top-down transition projects, change implementation is mandated across the organization. This method is rarely effective and often merely establishes a limited, temporary effect. The new way of change consists of shared leadership that bring about a mega-change.&nbsp;

Rik De Groot

Mansi Vora

Sridhar Rao Diagala

Agile Leadership: How to create shared leadership

This session will discuss why agile transformations get stuck, and the backbone of the discussion will be an eight-step approach on how to run agile transformation across a company. While doing so, best practices will be shared to combine them with the elements of the process.

Tom Siebeneicher

The transformation got stuck; what can we do?

A Good leader motivates you. A Great leader creates an environment that motivates you.&nbsp;

Zeeshan Amjad

Great Leader: The environment creator

You are in charge of a whole organization or a number of teams. Your ultimate desire is for them to become more productive, which translates into effectiveness and/or efficiency. You would ask yourself which is a golden key here, Kanban or Scrum? Is it an either/or question? Shall you start by practicing Scrum for a while and switch when matured? Is there a golden ratio of Scrum practices v.s. Kanban that make your transformation successful? Do you find yourself in Scrumfalls? Is Kanban the magic solution? You are telling yourself: It&rsquo;s time to switch to Kanban. Others have done it, so it must be the magic solution. If that&rsquo;s you, most probably you are spending now time and money on a new &ldquo;method&rdquo; while barely moving the needle. I can assure you It can become successful, it has been done!
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 Kanban is the new Scrum these days. Let&rsquo;s look at the failure modes of adopting Kanban deeper and together. What are the conditions needed for a Kanban method to flourish and find its roots in an organization? What can lead to a successful Kanban introduction compared to Scrum? Are there any fundamental differences between them? How can you make sure if you are moving from Scrum to Kanban, or having the thought of it, to become successful? What are the pitfalls that you want to avoid?
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 Join me in this session to share with you my experience as both Scrum and Kanban coach helping organizations transform. I will be sharing lessons learned and coaching techniques to help organizations and leaders realize the true potential of Kanban.

Shahin Sheidaei

Kanban is the New Scrum! Failure Transformation Patterns, Similarities, and Learning"?

Kalyanaraman Dandapani

Fun with Kalyanaraman

The commitment to perpetual adaptability is the key differentiator between companies that remain competitive in an ever-changing marketplace and companies that become obsolete in their field. Harnessing the power of innovation is paramount to the success of every enterprise agile adoption. During our time together, we will explore practical ways to get started in the journey of enabling a mindset of adaptability and innovation even in the most regulated industries.&nbsp;

Lenny Torres

Enabling a Mindset of Adaptability and Innovation

Enterprise Agility usually takes the form of groups, teams, and individuals outside of product and solution development coming to terms with how they must evolve, adapt, learn, and operate with new ways-of-working, under new constraints, and with closer, tighter relationships with technical staff. The &ldquo;How do we get there?&rdquo; challenge to these non-technical staff is almost always starker and often bleaker then the challenge to technical staff. Technical staff are presumed to be always seeking, testing, and adopting new ways-of-working and complementary tools to improve their ability to deliver. Non-technical staff are usually operating with much older ways-of-working (and tools) and rooted in methods and procedures that have remained unchanged for a decade or longer. The larger the Enterprise, the deeper the roots. Instigating persistent change enabling Enterprise Agility in these non-technical constituencies is a major gating factor for successful Enterprise Agility (and for happy, prolific technical delivery teams.) In this talk, the speaker will advocate for a more dynamic form of Enterprise Agility Enablement that creates opportunities for accelerated delivery and innovative outcomes (while benignly uprooting, calmly re-planting, an collaboratively nourishing ways-of-working for non-technical staff.) &nbsp; Major Take-aways: 1. Strategies and tactics to foster more persistent change in support of Enterprise Agility outside of technical delivery teams 2. Recognition of what&rsquo;s needed for the successful evolution of ways-of-working amongst non-technical staff (upon whom technical delivery teams are dependent) 3. Identification of techniques to ensure that the overall investment in Enterprise Agility will be positive, lasting, and impactful

Greg Tutunjian

Fermenting Opportunities for Acceleration and Innovation While Enabling Enterprise Agility

The early 2000s were all about Agile. As we moved to the 2010s, we built on that foundation, continued to scale, and enhanced it with modern DevOps. What changes are on the horizon? This session explores the core macro mega-trends driving the next phase of Agile &amp; DevOps at scale. The session will also delve into the new ways enterprise organizations use data, machine learning, and AI to supercharge existing processes while establishing the foundation for the next decade of enterprise software and value delivery.

Agenda

Speakers21 Speakers

Gaurav Chandna

Shahin Sheidaei

Dave West

Lenny Torres

Zeeshan Amjad

Sabine Khan

Greg Tutunjian

Tathagat Varma

Tom Siebeneicher

Rik De Groot

Sowmya Sethuraman

Deepti Jain

Raju K

Sonali Kar

Niraj Kumar

Mansi Vora

Kalyanaraman Dandapani

Meetu Singh

Sridhar Rao Diagala

Anand Sahay

Jeff Moloughney

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Kanbanize

Xebia

Xebia Academy

Digital.AI

Agenda

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Gaurav Chandna

Shahin Sheidaei

Dave West

Lenny Torres

Zeeshan Amjad

Sabine Khan

Greg Tutunjian

Tathagat Varma

Tom Siebeneicher

Rik De Groot

Sowmya Sethuraman

Deepti Jain

Raju K

Sonali Kar

Niraj Kumar

Mansi Vora

Kalyanaraman Dandapani

Meetu Singh

Sridhar Rao Diagala

Anand Sahay

Jeff Moloughney

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Kanbanize

Xebia

Xebia Academy

Digital.AI

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Booth4 Booth