Three takeaways when talking to executives about adopting agile at scale.

How can your organisation get the predictability it wants for planning and budgeting, and still benefit from the rich feedback of iterative agile delivery? And how can your staff develop and build a career in a flat organisation?

Tony Grout and Chris Matts think the answer might lie in the emerging areas of Business Mapping and Skills Liquidity.

Experience the challenges of Agile at Scale by simulating every aspect of the ‎Scrum process, constructing a fully fledged Lego City with buildings, cars and natural environments.  Exclusively for Csuite ‎and Directors of any practise or company who are Implementing or Scaling Agile. You will experience what it really means to have a company-wide Agile culture, learning by doing and failing.

I speak about three of the things I keep in mind when leading some of the worlds largest agile / digital transformations.

DevOps can easily be seen as another technical money pit by those who have to pay for it. I talk about how to position DevOps to the C-Suite so they understand the benefits so that you get the funding you need to make it successful.

DevOps is first a mindset not a method, process or technology challenge. How do you identify mindset obstacles and build a collaborative strategy that starts from people and removes friction using tools. 

The Mechanics of Managing the Maniacs of Innovation is a compressed narrative describing some ideas on how to avoid failing and focus on succeeding at shipping successful software in an ever faster and more uncertain world. 

LISTENING AS A CORNERSTONE TO INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Panel Discussion

• Listening, monitoring and measuring metrics from social input
• Learning how to exceed customers’ expectations in the new environment
• Sourcing and testing new product ideas through social engagement
• Successfully integrating multiple channels and multiple experiences

Me, James McClure, General Manager UK & Ireland from Airbnb and Heather Smith, UK Marketing Director from Aviva