Better Software - September 2008 - (Page ADP24) Agile Leadership Summit Sessions November 14, 2008 9:00 a.m. Wherefore Art Thou Business Value? Niel Nickolaisen, CIO and Director of Strategic Planning, Headwaters, Inc. Top leaders face a wide range of competing demands. We need to support legacy systems while also taking the lead in innovation. We must absorb changing technologies while sorting through which technologies can propel the business forward—and do all of this in a constantly changing business and competitive environment. How can we ensure that we make the right decisions at the right times? How can we ensure that our decisions improve business value? In this interactive session, Niel Nickolaisen presents the Purpose Alignment model and explains how IT and business leaders use this model to rapidly align business and IT, develop pragmatic strategic and tactical plans, and improve decision-making. Those attending this session will leave with the tools they need to immediately deliver improved business value. Niel Nickolaisen has held technology executive (CIO) and operations executive (COO) positions in large- and mediumsized enterprises, typically in turnaround roles. He is expert in the rapid/adaptive selection, implementation, and deployment of enterprise business applications, analysis tools, and systems. He has developed a strategic and tactical alignment model that results in significantly improved returns on technology and business initiatives (by both improving the benefits and reducing the costs and risks). Named IT Executive of the Year at the 2004 Gartner Research Mid-Sized Enterprise Summit, writes for CIO leaders Magazine and Cutter Consortium. 9:45 a.m. unleashing the Fossa: Scaling Agile in an Ambitious Culture Steve Greene, Director of Tools & Processes, Salesforce.com How do you make an agile transformation? Should you transition your organization to agile all at once or proceed iteratively, team by team? Salesforce.com moved their entire R&D organization to an agile model. What was the key difference in their approach? They threw the switch on thirty teams all at once. Most agile experts thought they were crazy. However, in the end, the transition became one of the fastest and largest successful agile transitions. Steve greene talks about how, in just three short months, they moved their entire team from a waterfall-based approach to a Scrum-based methodology call Adaptive Development Methodology (ADM). The technology team uses this methodology to regularly deliver three to four major releases a year to over 43,000 customers via more than 150 million transactions per day. Steve will present the business value they have achieved and the results of our team-wide survey sampled every quarter. Steve Greene is the director of Tools & Process at Salesforce.com and is responsible for the implementation and evolution of agile methodologies and supporting tools for the Technology organization. He has held numerous senior management positions at On-demand startup and large enterprise software companies including DigitalThink, Hyperion, PeopleSoft/Oracle, SPC and AOL. He brings a wealth of expertise and experience in productivity, process and product delivery. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University and is a board member of the BayAPLN. 1:30 p.m. Leading the Agile Disruption Israel Gat, Vice President of Distributed System Management, BMC One year delivery times shortened to four to five months? With productivity and quality levels far in excess of industry norms? Israel talks about how they reached this level of agile excellence in R&D at BMC, and what it meant from an end-to-end perspective—a major disruption to Marketing, Sales, Field Enablement, Software Consultants, Professional Services, and Customer Support. You will learn the set of processes developed and put into use in Israel’s team that were used to mitigate methodical disruption and facilitate alignment across corporate functions. In particular, you will be exposed to the Agile-Based-Market-of-One concept that is showing great promise as the antidote to the innate corporate drive to “harness” disruptions. Israel also discusses candidly what he learned about leading agile and passes on to you what worked and what did not at BMC. Israel Gat is the head of BMC’s Distributed System Management—a business unit that is 100% “Scrummed.” His executive career has spanned some of the world’s top technology companies, including IBM, Digital, Microsoft, EMC and BMC. Digital’s NetView, EMC’s Cellera, Microsoft’s MOM 2000 and the BMC Performance Manager are some of the products he brought to market during his tenure with these companies. In addition to his experience with industry giants, Israel is also well versed in growing smaller companies and has held advisory and venture capital positions for companies in new, high-growth markets. Israel holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the Israeli Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from Clark University. 2:45 p.m. The Dancing Agile Elephant: IBM Software group's Transition to Agile and Lean Development Sue McKinney, Vice President of Development Transformation and Integration, IBM Twenty-five thousand developers transitioning to Agile? How does that happen? Faced with a results-driving organization, moving to agile had to deliver on the company’s investment into a new methodology. In this session, Sue McKinney talks about the approach and challenges to transforming a multi-thousand person globally-distributed division, to adopt and deliver using agile methods. learn how to inspire and motivate change in large organizations steeped in tradition, identify change agents, and discover the tools needed to enable the masses. Sue discusses how she navigates leadership expectations and what new leadership skills must be developed in teams to make a successful adoption of agile—and to maintain effective use of agile. What Sue and other IBM-ers did to overcome the barriers and issues will be included, especially around resistance to change in large organizations. Sue McKinney is currently responsible for development transformational activities with IBM’s software development group, her major emphasis is driving adoption of Agile and Lean principles into the mainstream of software development. Prior to this assignment, Sue was a Vice President of Development for the Lotus Division where she led worldwide development for Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, and Websphere Portal. In addition to driving transformational activities within IBM, Sue works with large clients to share IBM’s experience and help them scope opportunities for their own transformational activities. 24 CAll 888.268.8770 OR 904.278.0524 TO REgISTER • W W W. S Q E . C O M /A D P R E g http://Salesforce.com http://Salesforce.com http://Salesforce.com http://WWW.SQE.COM/ADPREG
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