Leading Agile in an Economic Downturn - "The IBM Transformation Story"
Add to calendarTransitioning 25,000 developers to agile development processes is a challenge on its own—and making the transition during a global recession is even more ambitious. Join Sue McKinney as she discusses her experiences leading the move to agile at IBM, how their agile teams often struggled, and ways leaders provided support and understanding at many levels. As the global recession set in, Sue looked for tools leaders could use to increase productivity—even after cost cutting—and unleash the talent and innovation agile teams need to continue succeeding.
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Will cover oganizational dynamics; including team size - small 30 person teams to 750 person teams and how they went about with their adoption.
Will cover the socialization and adoption approach; starting with the basic premise of “educate, enable and empower”. Created a “pull and push” model to address scale and our ability to touch as many teams as possible. Formed an Agile Center of Competence (Coc) where coaches were assigned to struggling teams or assigned to help teams get started.
Will cover the role of a leader and manager in an Agile project and how that’s different from traditional waterfall, command and control styles.
Will cover the challenges with scaling adoption out; this is a journey that formally started in 2006 with a goal of making it self-sustaininb by 2010.
Will highlight the successful projects and what we learned/adapted and where we made mistakes. Specifically the challenges with WW development and the work assignments related to offshore development.
- Learn specific leadership approaches used at IBM in support of distributed development teams as they adopt and deliver using agile methods
- Discover the tools you can use to inspire and motivate change in a large organization steeped in tradition or a small one stuck in its ways.
- Find out the new leadership skills that teams must encourage and nurture to build a successful agile enterprise.
