MHA2014 Sponsorship and Speakers
MHA2014 is Friday April 18th in Denver, CO. This is the 4th year of this premier agile event attracting top speakers and practitioners from around the world.
Brad Swanson will deliver 2 very interesting sessions this year that are sure to be crowd pleasers:
Kanban Pizza Game: Maximize Profit by Managing Flow
The Kanban Pizza game was developed and refined by agile42 coaches and has been played by dozens of groups at conferences around the world. It is a hands-on simulation designed to teach the core elements of a Kanban system—visualize the workflow, limit your work-in-process (WIP), manage flow, make process policies explicit, and improve collaboratively. It’s very fun and highly memorable way to learn and experience kanban and the power of limiting work-in-process.
Real-World Success with Kotter’s Change Model
What does it take to sustainably transform a large enterprise into an Agile organization?
Brad will walk participants through a real-world success story, using John Kotter’s eight-step model for leading large change initiatives. He will describe Kotter’s change model and explain how a 2000-person organization at Ericsson implemented each of the eight steps to make a dramatic and sustainable transformation into a highly successful Agile enterprise.
Richard Dolman will be co-presenting, along with fellow Denver-based Agile Coach Steve Spearman, on a new and exciting initiative – the Agile Scaling KnowledgebaseTM:
Smart Scaling: Finding the right approach for your organization.
This session is among the first, highly anticipated, public presentations of an analysis model that’s intended to help you answer the question:
What is the right scaling approach for our organization?
This is obviously a very hot topic in our industry now but we haven’t seen much in the way of attempts to synthesize and present information on the various approaches in a fair and positive way. This session engages audience members by providing a broad interactive conversation around the facts and myths of scaling approaches and will help to evolve a newly created resource for unbiased information on scaling. Participants will explore the major scaling options together, to better understand some of the key differentiators and criteria for choosing an approach.
After a quick overview of the major scaling frameworks, we’ll present the concept of the Agile Scaling KnowledgebaseTM (ASK) – an evolving tool for evaluating and selecting the right approach(es) for your organization.
Stop by our booth to take part in a fun video contest, where we ask attendees for their take on “What is Agile?”, as well as other thought provoking topics. See how a few of our coaches answer this question –