Recordings and Presentations

Shadreck Mudziwepasi - CDA (Agile Consultant @ IndigoCube)

Agile Project Management: Myth or Fact? - Recording

Agile Project Management: Myth or Fact? - Presentation

Complex organisations going through agile transformation often question if they can effectively deliver high quality business solutions without traditional project portfolio management techniques. Often, these digitally transforming institutions believe they still need the political savvy, organizational awareness and time proven techniques traditionally known to be provided by the PMO. The Lightweight Disciplined Agile Milestones and Governance model that we implement addresses these issues quite efficiently. Our focus is on large organisations with long and deep histories struggling to come to terms with the need to modernize their business solutions delivery paradigm. Some examples include but are not limited to financial institutions and government agencies. We address organisations that are evolving from a less than ideal starting point (contrarily to Google, Facebook etc) and have to contend with legacy cultures, organizational structures and IT infrastructures. The key to Agile is to empower people to do their best by tapping into intrinsic motivation. We explain how PMOs of varying degrees of expertise can add value to our agile endeavours – either by bringing skills to the table the other roles may lack or by taking on tasks that underuse other roles with sole reference to the Disciplined Agile milestones and governance structure model.

Shadreck Mudziwepasi is an Agile Consultant for IndigoCube. He is a Certified Disciplined Agilist and a Professional Scrum Master. He is involved in various DevOps projects. He specialises in mentoring, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Scaling Agile and various software engineering process tools, applying his vast experience to spearhead digitalisation across enterprises.

Hilary Mulholland - CDA (Senior Software Engineer @ Kyruus, Inc)

Building Trust Though Charters, Spikes and, Transparency - Recording

Building Trust Though Charters, Spikes and, Transparency - Presentation

Unrealistic expectations left Kyruus rushing and cutting corners in product delivery. Using DAD principles, they successfully planned how long we thought the project would realistically take, while also being able to mitigate risks and adjust to changing stakeholder needs.

Hilary is a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Management Team at Kyruus in Boston. Her team works directly to provide data management, search, and scheduling solutions that help health systems match patients with the right providers at the right time. Hilary is the Team Lead responsible for delivering self-service administration capabilities to improve operational efficiency.   She earned her B.S. and MEng in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from MIT. She is also a Certified Disciplined Agilist.

Jaco Viljoen - CDAP (Principal Consultant @ IndigoCube)

Business Agility: A Roadmap to the Lean Enterprise - Recording

Business Agility: A Roadmap to the Lean Enterprise - Presentation

There are five agile ecosystems that result in different levels of business agility. Each ecosystem builds on the capabilities of the previous level, giving us a roadmap towards business agility. The central idea is to evolve your enterprise as oppose to designing it up front.

This roadmap that evolves towards business agility is well supported by DA 2.0, incorporating ideas from lean-agile, DevOps, Lean UX and Lean Start-up in one framework. DA 2.0 as a framework supports all five these agile ecosystems and thus enables the evolution of the lean enterprise.

Jaco Viljoen is principal consultant at IndigoCube, South Africa, and is passionate about helping others do software development better, be it through successful Digital (Lean/Agile/DevOps) enterprise transformations, training or coaching, or achieving optimal business agility.

Dr. Sanjay Saxena - CDAC/CDAI (Senior Coach & Instructor)

Choosing the proper framework - Context Counts! - Recording

Choosing the proper framework - Context Counts! - Presentation

Dr. Saxena suggest that applying wisdom in your project's context is more valuable than running behind popular frameworks and tools.  He suggests you don’t limit yourself to any popular framework or tool.  Your situation is unique, so choose a context sensitive and goal driven framework and then apply your wisdom to cherry-pick the relevant practices which are beneficial in your own context.

Dr. Sanjay Saxena has 20+ Years of IT experience, working with clients such as Canon, EY, HSBC, Barclays, Conseco and TIAA-CREF. His specialization is in DevOps, Scaled & Disciplined Agile and Lean transformation, coaching and training.

He is a lifelong learner, earning certifications such as: SAFe 4.5 Program Consultant, CSM, CSP, PSM I, PSPO, PMI-ACP, PMP, PgMP, CISA, CRISC, FLMI, ACS, ARA, Accredited Kanban Practitioner and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

In the last 12 years, Dr. Saxena has coached & trained thousands of professionals for Enterprise-wide Agile Transformations and industry certifications.

His favorite pastimes are playing in the professional Chess tournaments and practicing various forms of Martial Arts.

Jonathan Smart - Advisory Council, CDAP (Head of Development Services @ Barclays)

Control Tribes: Speed & Control - Recording

Control Tribes: Speed & Control - Presentation

Jon is heading the journey to adopt agile and lean principles and practices across Barclays Group (120,000 people, 40 countries, 327 years old, in the most regulated industry). Barclays is 3 years into the firm-wide journey, and is now starting to tackle the harder challenges. Barclays is implementing at scale a radical change in how they comply to a huge amount of standards and regulation.

Jon is leading on agile ways of working being the default approach to how Barclays approaches change. Jon has 20+ years experience of taking and leading an agile approach to change in Financial Services, starting out as a developer on the trading floor. Prior to this role, Jon was leading Derivatives Technology which had a large regulatory book of work which was delivered with agile principles and practices. He, along with his team, is the winner in the category of “Best Internal Agile Team” & “Most Valued Agile Professional (UK) (Runner Up)” at the Agile Awards 2016.

Joseph Biggs - Advisory Council, CDAP (Independent Practitioner)

Disciplined Agile and Portfolio Management: Simple Rules to Drive Success - Recording

Disciplined Agile and Portfolio Management: Simple Rules to Drive Success - Presentation

This session will review the challenge of Portfolio Management - Migrating from Traditional to Agile, the Basic Rules that apply to Portfolio Management, and the Benefits of Agile Portfolio Management.

Joe specializes in improving complicated process challenges. He is an expert in the areas of planning, managing, and realization of desired outcomes for valued initiatives. 

Expertise areas include:

• Agile Transformation
  
• EPMO/PMO Audits
  
• Project Governance/Measurement
  
• Portfolio/Program/Project Tools
  
• Release Management
  
• Software Test Automation

Joe implemented Agero’s migration to a Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) methodology from a more waterfall oriented process. This included driving the organization to achieve more than 100 certifications in the DAD platform.

David Shapiro - CDAC (Senior Director, Product and Engineering @ Openlink Financial)

Engage, Motivate, Evolve - Recording

Engage, Motivate, Evolve - Presentation

Openlink is faced with new and interesting challenges as we move deeper into providing our top-tier customers with our award-winning Energy and Financial Enterprise Trading solutions in the cloud. This presentation provides a view into how Openlink approaches introducing new technologies into our products, establishing technology roadmaps that align with our product roadmap, invent new products and services while evolving our existing assets.

David is a Senior Director of Development currently managing the Desktop Technology Group as well as the Development Operations Group.

His continued contributions include leading OpenLink through a complex transformation to Disciplined Agile Delivery. He has been involved in coaching and educating the majority of the staff in agile principles and practices. David is a Certified Disciplined Agile Coach, with experience architecting application for distributed cloud environments. He is an active contributor to the OpenLink Architecture working group.

David joined OpenLink in August of 1998, over the course of his career here has been a contributor on a variety of projects spanning multiple products within the OpenLink suite.

Lisa Lueck - CDAP (Agility Transformation Team Lead and Coach @ The Co-operators Group Limited)

Lean tools for Agile Software Development. What's in your toolbox? - Recording

Lean tools for Agile Software Development. What's in your toolbox? - Presentation

Both Lean and Agile methodologies are based upon similar principles of continuous improvement, emphasis on feedback from the customer and eliminating unnecessary process waste to increase efficiency. Is your product owner unsure of the what is minimally required to be delivered to increase the speed to market?  Does your delivery team have a clear picture of the whole process?  Are your team members consistently identifying and minimizing technical debt? Change the conversation with your Product Owner and delivery team using common lean tools.

Lisa brings over 18 years of IT experience successfully implementing multidimensional projects in a variety of roles in cozy Regina, SK, Canada.  She is certified as a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and holds the CDAP (Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner) and other Scrum designations. Over the last 5 years her focus has been on process improvement, lean change management and leading an agile transformation at The Co-operators Life Insurance Company. Lisa is passionate about lean, agile and her work creating a culture of trust, transparency, fun and continuous improvement.  In her spare time she enjoys teaching at the gym, spending time with friends and family and mixing martinis.

Aldo Rall - CDAP (Independent Practitioner)

Mini Survival Guide to Continuous Improvement - Recording

Mini Survival Guide to Continuous Improvement - Presentation

Agile has become a source of disruption to organisations and leadership. Prevailing trends shows that organisations are de-layering and some are even decimating their hierarchies. This disruption driven by Agile and, more recently, DevOps and Agile Scaling, challenges tradition; there is a call for wider skill sets and controlled, sustainable transformations, pushing individuals, teams and organisations into wider and often conflicting and ambiguous contexts.

I had my first experience in the IT industry as a junior programmer in 1998 at the start of the Y2K bubble. After gaining experience in development, I expanded my skills into the world of testing, and later started the journey into Agile, and more specifically, focusing on Agile Coaching.

Through this career progression, I gained exposure to a wide range of interesting opportunities in South Africa, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, I have mastered the practical elements of developing working software, Agile and best practices across a range of titles, assignments, projects, organisations and industries. What keeps me fascinated is the constant change which ensures that there is always something new for everyone to learn, regardless of experience levels or qualifications.

My greatest passion in IT lies in the ‘people’ dimension of the ‘people-process- technology’ mix, and how that translates into successful IT strategy, teams, projects and practitioners. As a result, I relish opportunities to coach, develop, teach and grow skills, people and teams, and to help them reach maturity at both strategic and operational levels.

Brent A Reed - CDA (Founder & President of Tactec Strategic Solutions Inc.)

Pathway to Continuous Improvement with Disciplined DevOps - Recording

Pathway to Continuous Improvement with Disciplined DevOps - Presentation

Tactec Strategic Solutions implemented the first DA DevOps programme for BC Government using two DAD lifecycles, one for the DevOps programme and one for the DevOps product. The programme for the GCPE / GDX Ministry began practicing DA DevOps using an MVP approach and demonstrated a potentially shippable solution in a matter of weeks.

Brent Reed is an accomplished and highly capable Enterprise IT Management Leader and Architect with a unique combination of business acumen and IT technical ability translating objectives into actionable plans. A recognized strategic leader, industry speaker, and advisor to global companies he has a wealth of expertise building enterprise-wide teams, systems and processes to deliver strategic objectives.

Currently President & Founder of Tactec Strategic Solutions Inc, in Victoria BC, Brent has held leadership and executive technical positions including, Heathrow Airport, IBM,  and SITA (Montreal, Hong Kong, Madrid, UK).

Brent has practiced Agile processes and honed his craft using Disciplined Agile at IBM since 2011, while focusing on leading edge strategies for enterprise devops for an improved IT delivery process and link to business objectives.

Geri Schneider Winters - CDAP (Founder, Wyyzzk, Inc.)

Run Your Own Disciplined Agile Inception Phase Bootcamp - Recording

Run Your Own Disciplined Agile Inception Phase Bootcamp - Presentation

This presentation will detail how a large US insurance company implemented a 3 day DAD boot camp to overcome the challenge of the DAD inception phase taking up to 3 months.

Author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Geri Winters likes learning new things and sharing what she has learned with others. Businesses she has founded in her career include:

• Wyyzzk, Inc. for coaching software organizations
• W2 for video production and custom designed silk screened T-shirts
• Self employed Producer and Director of musicals
• Ty yn Goch Forrest Publications for book publishing
• W2 Productions, LLC for 3D printed parts, CNC milled parts, and photographic reproduction and printing of fine art 
  
• A Life in Harmony for healthy living products and services